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    A chance to hear from a visiting child poverty expert

    by  • October 18, 2012 • Articles, News • 0 Comments

    Greg Duncan – an American academic with three decades’ experience researching poverty, welfare dependency and childhood development – will be giving several public lectures in Wellington next month about the long-term damage caused by child poverty. Duncan, a distinguished professor from the University of California, Irvine, has spent his career examining the long-term impacts...

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    Govt’s consultants bill $375m

    by  • December 20, 2011 • News, The NZ Herald • 2 Comments

    Unions fear government spending on consultants could skyrocket after it was revealed that the bill hit $375 million last financial year – and John Key warned of “significant” restructuring to come. The Government spent more than $375 million on consultants and contractors in 2010-11 as a series of government restructurings made thousands of public...

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    Health boards could go further into the red – Treasury

    by  • November 24, 2011 • Articles, News • 0 Comments

    Government funding cuts could see struggling district health boards (DHBs) go further into deficit, the Treasury has admitted. In a briefing paper, officials say the boards will have find an extra $258 million over the next four years because the government no longer subsidises their Kiwisaver and pensions contributions. “If an individual DHB is...

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    Disgust over dead boy’s pictures on porn site

    by  • October 8, 2011 • Articles, News, The NZ Herald • 0 Comments

    Ngatikaura Ngati died after horrific abuse by his parents. Children’s advocates are appalled that pictures of a young Auckland boy killed by his parents were posted on a pornographic site featuring beheadings, impalement and necrophilia. Ngatikaura Ngati died in 2006 after horrific abuse by his parents, who were convicted of his manslaughter. Pictures of...

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    Agencies ‘missed chances’ to make city quake-ready

    by  • October 1, 2011 • News, The NZ Herald • 0 Comments

    Government agencies twice failed to act on calls for more research that could have helped Christchurch prepare better for February’s fatal earthquake, victims’ families have claimed. The families say the agencies “didn’t do the right things” and missed several chances to identify high-risk areas and strengthen key buildings. They say the first opportunity was...

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