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The Waitangi Tribunal urges speedier progress fixing health inequality
The Waitangi Tribunal says slow progress calculating compensation to Māori health providers risks further prejudice.
It's also calling on the government to ensure the newly appointed Māori Health… Audio
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Scholarships to attract Pasifika to financial advisor careers
Scholarships are being offered to attract more women, Māori and Pasifika to take up a career as a financial advisor in New Zealand. Audio
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Patients 'in limbo' after surgeries cancelled due to Covid-19
Around 1000 elective surgeries have been cancelled each week since the start of the current Covid-19 outbreak.
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Judges being surveyed to boost understanding of 'life and work experience'
The judiciary is gathering more information about judges' backgrounds including their sexuality and religious status.
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Long-covid warnings for unvaxxed: 'Not just a respiratory virus'
With daily Covid case numbers climbing, there is mounting concern from health workers about the strain that could be put on ICU capacity. But it's not just the immediate hospitalisations that are a… Audio
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Squid Game's link to South Korea's crippling debt crisis
For many, Squid Game is just gory entertainment. In South Korea, it's more.
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Community leaders fear lockdown's long-term impact on families
The lengthy Auckland lockdown is making it even harder to address truancy - with growing concern some children will disappear from education entirely.
School principals have told Checkpoint as few as… Video, Audio
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MIQ emergency process hurtful, illogical, underused, advocates say
The emergency allocation system for MIQ has been described as hurtful and illogical, with fewer than 10 percent of applications being approved in some categories, numbers released under the Official… Video, Audio
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Lowering Covid-19 restrictions makes Māori acceptable collateral damage - groups
A coalition of Māori health organisations in Auckland is urging the government to return to a Covid-19 elimination strategy, saying many Māori will die if it does not.
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Lego to remove gender stereotypes from toys
Lego is removing gender stereotypes from its toys - and it means no more pink just for girls.
It comes as a global survey reveals attitudes to play is inequal, and restrictive.
Girls are becoming… Audio
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UK start to pandemic worst public health failure ever, MPs say
The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid-19 spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures, a report by MPs says.
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Covid-19 modelling paints worrying picture for South Auckland
If vaccination rates remain below 90 percent, health experts fear the worst is yet to come for South Auckland.
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8500 more beneficiaries since start of Delta outbreak, figures show
Since the start of the Delta outbreak, 8500 more people have ended up on the benefit, Ministry of Social Development figures show.
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'Dodgy' debt collection practices must stop - budgeting group
Christians Against Poverty is renewing calls for government action on "disturbing" tactics by debt collectors - including dressing to resemble police officers. A report the group compiled for the… Audio
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Pay gap for Pasifika women largest in NZ
Pasifika women might as well be working for free from now until the rest of the year, given the chasm that is the gender and ethnic pay gap.
Figures from the Council of Trade Unions show on average… Audio
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KidsCan: many children still in food poverty during lockdown
With Auckland school children still unsure when they'll be able to return to class, for many it's not only their education that is suffering ... Children's charity KidsCan has seen a huge surge in… Audio
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Has MMP given us the consensus governments we asked for?
Twenty-five years ago today New Zealand held its first MMP election. How's that working out for us? Audio
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Has MMP given us the consensus governments we asked for?
Twenty-five years ago today New Zealand held its first MMP election. How's that working out for us?
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Tertiary providers given deadline to fix persistently low pass rates for Māori, Pasifika
Universities, polytechs and wananga have been given ten years to end the persistently lower pass rates for Māori and Pasifika students.
It's the third time in the past decade the Tertiary Education… Audio
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How Billy Goats Gruff can help children understand the world - and change it: Prof. Peter O’Connor
In an update of his 2017 talk, Prof. Peter O'Connor explores the complexities of terrorism from an educator's perspective. From the online version of Auckland University's Raising the Bar. Video, Audio
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Focus on Politics: Viral inequality and ganging up on Covid-19
News 9 Oct 2021Podcast - Political Editor Jane Patterson takes politicians' temperature on Covid-19 and the economic response, and how that impacts efforts to combat inequality. Audio
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Viral inequality and ganging up on Covid-19
Audio 9 Oct 2021In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Political Editor Jane Patterson takes politicians' temperature on Covid-19 and the economic response, and how that impacts efforts to combat inequality. Audio
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Viral inequality and ganging up on Covid-19
In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Political Editor Jane Patterson takes politicians' temperature on Covid-19 and the economic response, and how that impacts efforts to combat inequality.
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'Jacinda hyped me up to get it': Chat with PM before first vaccination
The government's beefing up efforts to vaccinate Māori against Covid-19 by getting the prime minister out on the road.
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Too early to say if local government shake-up will mean amalgamation
It's too early to say if amalgamation is on the cards for New Zealand's 78 councils, but the way towns and cities are run is poised for overhaul.
