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Children already struggling before the Covid-19 lockdown bore the brunt of the problems it created.

The Reserve Bank Governor has rebuffed the Finance Minister's request for help fixing the housing crisis.

RNZ sat down with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as 2020 draws to a close, to reflect on the year that's been, and the one that lies ahead.

We hear a lot about child poverty and lack of action on it - how bad is the situation really? 

Parliament is over for the year. But helpfully, MPs have left you with multiple summer projects to work on.

Intergenerational inequality is growing larger by the day and things will only get worse unless action is taken, an ANZ Bank report says.

Paying down debt and putting away savings will be critical for those attempting to bounce back from the Covid downturn, the head a Crown entity promoting financial education says. Audio

The Human Rights Commission is launching an into the pay gap between Pasifika people and the rest of New Zealand. Audio

The Māori Party is planning to get tactical with the way it asks questions of the government in Parliament and is hoping the Green Party will help.

MPs have raced through four bills in their first proper week of Parliament passing new laws on festival drug testing, Covid-19, and income tax. 

Analysis - Jacinda Ardern's majority government was on the charge this week, Parliament voted to declare a climate emergency and the Māori Party let everyone know it was back.

Opinion - Simplistic, stereotyped, voyeuristic and ableist media representations of disabled people can be replaced by complex, nuanced, thought-provoking stories instead, writes Áine Kelly-Costello.

Massey University researchers have today released a report detailing widespread gender discrimination in the Aotearoa music community, in the first report of its kind in New Zealand.

A trend of drug-related gun violence against police cannot be addressed without also confronting decades of social neglect in Northland, one of its mayors says.