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Politicians need to explain how superannuation will continue to be funded when costs are expected to triple in 20 years to $90 million a day, the retirement commissioner says. Audio

Companies should be more transparent when it comes to cultural diversity at the highest level, a prominent employment lawyer says.

Almost 112,000 people applied for emergency grants for food in the last quarter of 2016, up almost 14,000 on 2015.

The lack of female directors in some of New Zealand's largest companies is 'incredibly disappointing', the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner says. Audio

The country's two richest people, billionaires Graeme Hart and Richard Chandler, have as much wealth as the poorest 30 percent of New Zealanders.

US civil rights activists have vowed to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice as they kick off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

A third of companies on the stock exchange's main board have no woman directors, further investigation shows.

Call it for what it is - straight-up racism. And it happens every day.

The Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce says it is concerned about the signals a proposed amnesty, on penalties for not paying tax, sends to taxpayers.

US President Barack Obama has called on Americans to defend their democracy in his farewell speech in Chicago.

The proportion of women on boards in Sweden rose to 32 percent last year, but a bill will stipulate that by 2019 it must be at least 40 percent.

With only 17 percent of company directors being women, a governance boss says it's time quotas stopped being a "dirty word". Audio

Outspoken - NZ's economy is one of the best-performing among developed countries but there are nagging problems under the headlines. Audio

Many people could be prepared to pay more tax to help disadvantaged young people, the children's commissioner says.