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New budget cuts look to negatively impact our new migrant and former-refugee communities.Lynda Chanwai-Earle hosts a panel discussion with three representatives from these communities to get to the…

Finance Minister Steven Joyce is open to linking Working For Families to inflation, he says.

Auckland families moving to Northland to escape poverty are finding they're worse off, with high rents and little prospect for jobs, says a leading social service provider.

The New Zealand government has disputed an opposition claim that its budget failed Pacific people on housing.

The head of Fiji's Women's Crisis Centre says a surge in reported sex crimes shows the willingness people now have to come forward.

A single mother on minimum wage says changes announced in yesterday's budget would only make a small difference to her life.

Power Play - The National Party is preparing to march straight into traditional Labour territory with Thursday's Budget, RNZ's Jane Patterson writes.

Sarah Illingworth lives five minutes walk from Manchester Arena. She shares her experience of the attack.

Rohan Lord has pulled out of the race for the East Coast Bays seat, saying he thought there were "limited future prospects" in the Labour Party for someone like him. Video, Audio

The country's business leaders should 'hang their heads in shame' if they do not have a woman on their board, says a former Equal Opportunities Commissioner. Audio

Methamphetamine abuse is now behind almost every case where parents lose custody of their children, says the Grandparents Supporting Grandchildren Trust.

Analysis - Auckland mayor Phil Goff's big economic plans have had speed wobbles from day one and ahead of his first budget it's still not certain if they will steady, writes Todd Niall.

Children living in poverty are three times more likely to suffer mental health problems than others, a psychologist says.

A Northland petrol station has been fined $14,000 and ordered to pay another $14,500 to four workers it underpaid.

Inequality makes people at the top increasingly hard-hearted towards those lower down the ladder, a new international study has found.

A representative of Fiji's sugar cane growers says the government's bailout is not fair to all the cane farmers who suffered after Cyclone Winston.

A members' bill that would have made businesses report how much they pay their men and women employees has been defeated in Parliament.