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New Zealand has one of the most unequal education systems in the world, a Unicef report shows.

Health officials in Hawke's Bay are trying to curb the high rate of bowel cancer deaths among Pasifika people by encouraging them to take screening tests.

Only 24 percent of board members on New Zealand's top 100 listed companies are women.

The Justice Minister says it's too soon to say whether MPs will vote to change abortion laws.

FIFA will double the prize money for the Women's World Cup, though critics immediately said the increase was not enough.

A Wellington drag queen says he has been harassed by strangers so often that he's now too frightened to walk alone in the city.

A 400-bed acute hospital is to be built south of Auckland City in the next 20 years and possibly another new hospital north of the city.

The government has committed to addressing issues of racial bias against non-Pakeha premature babies.

Māori, Pacifica and Indian premature babies are less likely to recieve resuscitation attempts than babies of other ethnicities, a national report has found.

A government-led strategy has been launched to increase equality for women and girls in sport.

A study on banking and markets since the financial crisis warns that "dangerous undercurrents" are a rising threat to stability.

Power Play - It's the political curse of Finance Ministers past - deliver a surplus and immediately come under pressure to spend large, writes Jane Patterson.

The far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, has won the first round of Brazil's presidential election.

The leader of FijiFirst, Frank Bainimamara, says he wants to lead a government without an opposition after the 14 November general elections.

This week's Beyond Kate looks at a number of trends, events and individual actions that played a hand in winning women the vote.

That was the question put to 900 Māori participants in a new study, of which 90 percent believed structural racism was to blame. Audio