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The number of food parcels being handed out at the Salvation Army's foodbanks has jumped 12 percent in the last year, according to the organisation's latest State of the Nation report.

A pre-school manager trying to report an at-risk child to Oranga Tamariki was on hold for over half an hour with no answer, then again for 20 minutes, she says.

A prominent Northland doctor has described his frustration with having to deal everyday with the sick children of parents addicted to pokies.

The leader of South Africa's ruling party has acknowledged growing impatience over the failure to resolve President Jacob Zuma's future.

A wide-ranging government inquiry will look into whether New Zealanders are getting a fair deal on their power bills. Audio

Opinion - The Prime Minister acknowledged today that the Māori incarceration rates are a government failure. Tania Sawicki Mead writes accountability requires admitting that more prison beds means…

For the first time we hear from women working under the RSE scheme supporting their families back home in the Solomon Islands.

The opposition leader says National was denied the opportunity to help shape child poverty legislation.

National is considering whether to support the government's child poverty reduction legislation as it gets an official briefing today, leader Bill English says. Audio

New Zealand women actors are to launch their own #MeToo campaign, to stamp out sexual harassment in the screen industry.

Businesses still have a long way to go to bring about greater levels of diversity, according to industry experts.

Six of the BBC's leading male presenters have agreed to take pay cuts after revelations over equal salaries.

High-interest finance companies are using social media to target families struggling to pay for back-to-school costs. Audio

New Oxfam research shows the richest one percent of New Zealanders earned nearly 30 percent of all the wealth created last year. Audio