Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Working for New Zealand  - Our better public services are supporting the most vulnerable New Zealanders and every week about 1500 people are coming off welfare to take up ...

A New Zealand for New Zealanders  - We speak to the vulnerable, and to hard working middle New Zealand , because we are passionate about people . All our people . That is clearly ...

From Monday 18 November New Zealand women are working for free until ... for free on 12 October for Māori women (22.1% pay gap) and 29 September for ... The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings ... View article...

Female public servants in New Zealand 'working for free' until July, due to pay gap -  Labour MP Sue Moroney, who hosted the event, with MPs from Labour, New Zealand First, the Maori Party and the Greens also attending, told the ...

Solutions for child poverty : The Green Party insists the question of child poverty in New Zealand can be addressed and has proposed four solutions: Make Working for Families work for every low income family, provide better study support for sole parents and beneficiaries, ... SunLive (blog)

Croatia, New Zealand to ink working holiday scheme agreement  - Up to 100 young people from Croatia annually will be able to study or work for a year in New Zealand , and as many young people from New Zealand   ...

Unions say today's the day Maori women effectively begin working for free - The Council of Trade Unions says Maori women earn and average of ... an hour, compared with almost 32-dollars an hour for New Zealand men.

New Zealand's Labour Party Mulls Package for Aged Population  - The Labour Party in New Zealand has reached out to the old age population. The party promised to set up a working group for the aged within 100 ...

New Zealand child-welfare program hailed - In a traditional Maori greeting, David Newman presses his forehead and nose up against that of Rima Witanga a visiting Social Worker and Maori elder, one of four visiting Maori here in Manitoba working for reconciliation of Aboriginal Families in New Zealand and world wide. See Alex Paul's story.

Have Your Say on Living Standards Indicators for New Zealand - As an example, Te Puni Kōkiri is working on Māori perspectives on living standards and wellbeing, and a discussion paper on this will be published ...

Labour work and wages policy good for working people  - Labour's new policy on work and wages, announced today, is good for the working people of New Zealand . Maritime Union of New Zealand National ...

NZ: Maori farmers work to adapt to climate change : Maori farmers are working together to adapt to climate change, which they are blaming for the extraordinary dry spell that has plagued rural communities in the North Island of New Zealand for the past three months, reports Radio New Zealand ...

New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse  - The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse is the national centre for ... We provide information and resources for people working towards the ...

New Zealand's Union Movement: A socialist perspective  - But there has been no increased prosperity for ordinary people . ... For example, in 2004 workers in New Zealand were working longer hours than in ...

New Zealand: 'We campaign hard' for working people, says Mana candidate  - A member of the Mana Movement, headed by militant Maori MP Hone Harawira, Minto is a candidate for the Internet Mana alliance for the September ...

Call to government to address rural health crisis - Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ), representing over 40 rural based organisations, says the country’s rural health and social workforce is in crisis. The group will be presenting its case to Parliament on March 16. RHAANZ says it wants to see a more centralised, coordinated approach to provide evidence-based, cross-government rural leadership and advocacy willing to work with the communities for better health outcomes. New Zealand’s rural population of 600,000 people effectively makes up New Zealand’s second largest city yet, spreading from Cape Reinga to the Bluff, many are living and working in geographically and socially isolated areas, RHAANZ chief executive Michelle Thompson says.

Thousands now look for working holidays in New Zealand  - The concept of young people taking working holidays in other countries has long been popular in the West. These days many young graduates from ...

Charles Waldegrave and Bob Stephens: Counting the true costs of poverty trap : The second is that we have a very good example of a policy that succeeded in reducing child poverty from around a third of New Zealand children to a little over a fifth. That policy was Working for Families and it offers an important direction for ...

āori women effectively working for free from now -  Māori women's work, both paid and unpaid has upheld New Zealand's economy and society forever, but has been undervalued and ignored by ...

Poverty our biggest growth industry - academic : He is an expert on homelessness and has researched the experiences of marginalised groups in New Zealand . "Things like Working for Families have had an impact but they haven't stopped the growth and the OECD figures are pretty conservative," he said.