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Coronavirus: Tens of thousands of new applicants for benefits
A new report on the nearly 40,000 people who signed on for the unemployment benefit during lockdown shows they're more likely to be first time beneficiaries, higher earners, recently returned from… Audio
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Coronavirus: Is Budget welfare spending enough?
Those hoping for a further rise in welfare payments to feature in the budget have been disappointed, despite predictions that the Covid-19 outbreak will create tens of thousands of new beneficiaries.
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Budget social spending not enough - advocate
The government is being told it must do more if it wants to stop a big spike in the number of families ending up in poverty because of Covid-19.
Treasury is forecasting unemployment to hit 10 percent… Audio
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Coronavirus: What the lockdown was like for homeless
It's been a difficult seven weeks for many New Zealanders during the nationwide lockdown. But for Dave Finlay, a homeless man living out of his car in Wellington, it's been particularly difficult.
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The Kiwi helping the World Health Organisation in pandemic response
An Auckland scientist is preparing a briefing paper for the World Health Organisation that highlights cultural and social problems that may arise as governments try to control the spread of the virus.
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'We're hidden' - unemployed man one of many denied benefit help
A Canterbury man who can't find work or access a benefit says he is part of a growing group of New Zealanders whose unemployment is hidden from any official figures.
Because the man's wife still has… Audio
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Māori health providers praised for helping improve flu vaccination rates
The Ministry of Health has made inroads into closing the gap between Māori and non-Māori vaccination rates, which it credits to Māori health providers proactively reaching out to kaumātua and kuia.
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Benefit redundancy denials: 'Come back when there's nothing left'
People who believe they were left in the lurch by Work and Income wrongly rejecting applicants whose redundancy payment had not yet run out talk to Glen Scanlon.
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New Zealand in a post-Covid world
Audio 12 May 2020What will New Zealand look like in a post-Covid world? Writer Max Rashbrooke considers the role of an 'active state' post-coronavirus. Audio
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Family violence funding: Māori NGO warns systemic overhaul needed
The government's $202m funding boost for family violence services is welcome, but government procurement and pay equity still need addressing, Te Ohaakii a Hine says.
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Government to invest millions into family violence services
The government says it will shore-up New Zealand's family and sexual violence services in the upcoming 2020 budget to the tune of $183 million over the next four years.
Reports suggest that the… Audio
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Call to backpay people denied benefits due to redundancy payout
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the Government to proactively backpay people who have been denied a benefit because they got redundancy pay when they were laid off.
An RNZ investigation… Audio
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'The time is right to create equality' - Netball NZ boss
The inequalities women's sports face were laid bare to the Epidemic Response Committee today.
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ERC meeting: How should gyms operate under level 2?
ExerciseNZ's chief executive told the Epidemic Response Committee 10-15 percent of gyms will close because of the pandemic and suggested how they could re-open.
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Sam Cane: New blood or the same old?
Sam Cane has completed his ascent from schoolboy prodigy to All Blacks captain, so what kind of leader will he be? Joe Porter investigates.
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Without Keytruda, 30 deaths a week in NZ from cancer - Lung Foundation
Pharmac's decision to backtrack on funding Keytruda is a major blow for equality in New Zealand's health system, a leading oncologist says.
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Māori health professionals left out of Epidemic Response Committee meetings
Māori health experts and industry leaders have largely been excluded from Parliament's Epidemic Response Committee meetings, leaving many feeling extremely frustrated and left out.
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Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as 'acute' phase ends - scientists
The sense of national unity felt during the lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report by leading social scientists warns.
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Coronavirus: Lockdown prompts change on rough sleeping
Could the lockdown signal the end of rough sleeping? Former rough sleepers and community housing groups think it could.
More than 1000 people have been housed in last five weeks and the government… Audio
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Police officer jailed for six years over rape of colleague
A disgraced police officer who raped his female colleague as she slept has been jailed for six years.
Jamie Foster raped the woman at a Kerikeri motel they had been put up in while working during… Audio
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Govt warned of huge rise in poverty following Covid-19
New Zealand should brace itself for a new wave of immense poverty and mental distress as it grapples with the fallout from Covid-19.
That was the warning to MPs on the Epidemic Response Committee… Audio
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Human Rights Commission makes 30 recommendations in report on Covid-19 response
The government's response to Covid-19 has been good, but much more could be done to ensure the Treaty and human rights are central to decisions, Human Rights Commission says.
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Concerns indigenous people will suffer more from Covid-19
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is concerned indigenous people will suffer worse health outcomes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It says Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Strait… Audio -
Quarantine exemption process 'cruel' - daughters of dying mother
Two sisters battling to get out of mandatory isolation early to see their dying mother says the exemption process is cruel and flawed.
The pair flew back to New Zealand from Melbourne on April 18, 11… Audio
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Air NZ crews hoping to halt redundancies until alert level 2
Air NZ has hit heavy turbulence with an escalating industrial dispute over claims hundreds of flight attendants are about to be laid off, and ongoing questions about whether the company is doing… Video, Audio
