Editorial: Enough talk, more action on child poverty

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in Editorial

Issue 3751 31st Mar 2012

How many more reports, papers, inquiries, submissions and recommendations are needed?

Welfare changes deserve our support

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in Editorial

Issue 3748 10th Mar 2012

How can 4.4 million people support more than 351,000 beneficiaries?

Welfare carrots and sticks

By Jane Clifton in Politics

Issue 3748 10th Mar 2012

The Government's welfare tightening is all very well, says Jane Clifton, but where are the jobs that beneficiaries are supposed to be ready for?

Changing our approach to child abuse

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By Joanne Black in Current Affairs

Issue 3744 11th Feb 2012

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is calling for submissions on tackling our sorry rate of child neglect.

Doorstop, anyone?

By Jane Clifton in Politics

Issue 3683 11th Dec 2010

In the manner of posting the enemy's head on a pikestaff at the gates of the city, it used to be the fashion for Wellingtonians of a subversive disposition to use as office doorstops copies of the 1988 Royal Commission on Social Policy. As a warning - pour encourager les autres - the gesture

Not working

By Joanne Black in Commentary

Issue 3681 27th Nov 2010

With growing welfare dependency and child poverty, it's clear the benefit system needs an overhaul, says Welfare Working Group chair Paula Rebstock.