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A Tongan dietician says it is essential that health workers in New Zealand have better knowledge of Pacific communities.

A significant proportion of children are living in poverty in Taranaki, despite the region's relative wealth.

The Finance Minister agrees rising house prices in Auckland are making inequality worse by shutting low and middle-income earners out of the property market.

A study of inequality in education has found the percentage of Māori children attending higher decile schools has increased as the socio-economic status of Māori has improved.

Income inequality and a lack of information are contributing to a digital divide in New Zealand, Māori IT experts say.

Social Development Minister Anne Tolley says the Government decided to lift benefit levels from next April because it is confident the move will not stop people moving into work.

Official papers reveal the Government was told two years ago its policies would do little to cut child poverty in the short to medium term.

The Fiji Women's Crisis Centre says gender equality must be promoted at all levels, if violence against women is to be combatted.

The United Nations Population Fund says maternal health in Papua continues to lag behind the rest of Indonesia.

Students are working long hours and shouldering huge debt - and it’s leaving them exhausted, sick and unable to get the most out of their education.

Māori are living shorter, sicker lives than non-Māori and a change in approach is needed, a health advocate says.

The Iwi Education Authority is mourning the loss of life-long educator and leader, Te Iria Marama Whiu.

There's a call to give all teenage girls long-lasting contraception - and for it to be up to them to opt out. Audio

A regional police women's network says women officers across the region continue to battle gender inequality within their jurisdictions.

The low representation of women police officers in the Pacific, is one of the matters being addressed at a police conference in Auckland this week.