International women’s day? How are the worst off mothers and their kids doing?
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
So today is International womens day. Before we celebrate, spare a thought for the mothers stuck under the lowest...
Micro Finance – Record breaking year for microloan applications for people doing it tough
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Child Poverty Action Group
Embargo: 5am March 8, 2021
A record number of loan applications were recorded by Ngā Tāngata Microfinance last year for...
Gender Equality – New CoreLogic report on women and property reveals more about apparent...
Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSource: CoreLogic
Women have greater co-ownership in New Zealand vs Australia, reflecting affordability and income constraints
CoreLogic’s latest comprehensive report, Women and Property: State...
Hundreds more schools join free lunches programme
Source: New Zealand Government
An additional 88,000 students in 322 schools and kura across the country have started the school year with a regular lunch...
Opinion – Cr Collins Manukau is central to the COVID fight
Source: Auckland Council
This opinion piece was first published on The Guardian online.
The patience and grace shown by health, hotel and airport workers in South...
Five ways this pandemic is worse for children than you think
Source: Save The Children
The coronavirus pandemic is having a crippling effect on the global economy and the lives of children and their families. In...
Children have lost more than a third of their school year to the pandemic
Source: Save The Children
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, children across the world have lost an average of 74 days of education each due...
Main benefits to increase in line with wages
Source: New Zealand Government
Social Development and Employment Minister Carmel Sepuloni announced today that main benefits will increase by 3.1 percent on 1 April, in...
Climate change a major issue for most Kiwis – survey
Source: MakeLemonade.nz
Christchurch – Taking action to limit climate change is important to four out of five Kiwis, Research NZ survey has found.
Their research showed...
Parliament Oral Questions – Oral Questions – 25 February 2021000289
Source: New Zealand Parliament – Oral Questions and Answers
DAVID SEYMOUR to the Minister for COVID-19 Response: What advice, if any, has he received this...
Modelling international trade regulations reveals hidden impacts
Source: University of Waikato
New Zealand recently signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), an historic trade agreement between fifteen economies in the Asia Pacific...
Government delivers 1,000 more transitional housing places
Source: New Zealand Government
The Government has added 1,000 more transitional housing places as promised under the Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan (HAP), launched...
