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Ministry for Disabled People: 'Really good start' but there are omissions
Opinion - It's great to have a Ministry for Disabled People but more needs to be done, writes Chris Ford.
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Covid-19 making lives of those insecure and inadequate housing more vulnerable
Covid-19 has taken hold among some of society's most marginalised groups, including those living in insecure or inadequate housing.
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Covid-19: Has the housing crisis exacerbated the outbreak?
Delta is attacking some of New Zealand's most marginalised groups - including those living in insecure or inadequate housing.
In the final part of our series on lockdown and poverty, RNZ social… Audio
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Vaccinated Aucklanders should have more freedoms - Des Gorman
Easing restrictions in Auckland is the only way to maintain public compliance, professor of medicine Des Gorman says - and he thinks it is safe to do so.
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Migrant exploitation to be investigated in new $50m govt inquiry
An inquiry into workplace exploitation of migrants will look at the scale of the problem and whether the government's actions have had an effect.
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Disability sector on new ministry: Time to 'really start to test big ideas'
Disability communities have largely welcomed the establishment of a new Ministry for Disabled People, saying it has the potential to improve disabled lives.
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Banks need government inquiry - Sam Stubbs
Banks are coming under fire for their big profits.
Yesterday ANZ reported a profit of $1.92 billion, up 44 percent on last year.
Kiwisaver provider Simplicity chief executive Sam Stubbs says it's… Audio
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Health reforms: diagnosis and second opinions
Parliament is considering a major health reform. We outline the symptoms, diagnoses and the treatment plans proposed by the different parties. Audio
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Health reforms: diagnosis and second opinions
Parliament is considering a major health reform. We outline the symptoms, diagnoses and the treatment plans proposed by the different parties.
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Covid-19: Minister admits MIQ has weaknesses
Thousands of New Zealanders stuck overseas are pinning their hopes on today's MIQ announcement - which could improve their chances of getting back into the country.
Shorter MIQ times and isolating at… Audio
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Covid-19: Third party group gaming MIQ booking system
RNZ has found the current MIQ booking lobby system is being gamed by a third party group.
It comes as ministers prepare to announce changes to the system on Thursday.
Kiwis stuck overseas are… Audio
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MIQ system doesn't reflect peoples' situations - stranded Kiwi
The government will today announce changes to its much criticised MIQ system.
Thousands of New Zealand passport holders are trapped overseas, many having tried for months to get home.
One man… Audio
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Biden to meet pope amid pressure from anti-abortion US bishops
Devout Roman Catholic Joe Biden meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday at a time when the US president is under pressure from conservatives in the Church for his conflicted position in the…
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Time to change the Covid conversation
All over the world COVID has created an epidemic of tribalism and virtue signaling says Dr Vinay Prasad, an Associate Professor in the Epidemiology department at the University of California in San… Audio
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Covid-19: Principals on senior students headed back to school
Across Auckland this morning, almost 60,000 students are heading back through the school gates to classrooms for the first time in ten weeks.
Students from years 11, 12 and 13 are allowed back -… Audio
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Ed Sheeran tests positive for Covid-19
Ed Sheeran says he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.
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Struggling families facing 'threefold poverty', social workers tell govt
Planned benefit boosts must be brought forward to help meet basic costs for the surging numbers of people struggling to afford basic necessities, say social workers.
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Jonathan Haidt: Social media model 'is breaking the world'
Named one of the world's top thinkers by both Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines, American social psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt will feature as the keynote speaker at next month's APEC CEO… Audio
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APEC finance meeting reflects region's delicate lean forward
APEC finance ministers have agreed to use all available policy tools to address recovery from Covid-19 and support equitable access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Ngāi Tahu whānau programme given $26m in move to 'shift the system'
A new prevention programme designed to reduce the number of Māori tamariki and rangatahi entering state care has been given a funding injection from the Government.
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Iwi to get Oranga Tamariki funds in bid to cut state care numbers
A new iwi-led programme will receive funding to help reduce the number of tamariki and rangatahi coming into state care, the Children's Minister says.
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Covid-19: Traffic light system doesn't cater to Māori - analyst
The government's reopening plan does not include a specific target for Māori vaccination rates.
The new system will come in when 90 percent of the entire eligible population in each District Health… Audio
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Perlina Lau's must-see TV
Audio 22 Oct 2021There's plenty of good TV on the streamers this month, says RNZ's Perlina Lau, who gives her take on six shows worthy of your attention in October. Video
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Cash grants on way for those hardest hit by Covid-19 restrictions
More low-income households struggling because of lockdown will soon be able to get hardship support from Work and Income.
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MindTheGap: Campaign promotes wage gap, especially for Māori and Pasifika
The year-long MindTheGap campaign is asking workers to fill out a registry with details of their pay rates ahead of the 50th of the anniversary of the Equal Pay Act.
