Welfare

The national media usually have little interest in local election issues, but it was a different story with banning beggars from big city streets recently. Mediawatch looks at how it hit the headlines… Video, Audio

Social Development Minister, Anne Tolley, discusses changes to Child Youth and Family and the way vulnerable children are cared for by the state. Audio

Dame Diane Robertson is the outgoing Auckland City Missioner. She has been at the helm of the Auckland City Mission for 17 years, but involved in the social services organisation for more than two… Audio

Thousands of children have been affected by benefit cuts in the past two years because their parents have missed an appointment at Work and Income or failed some other condition. Audio

Despite record demand at the country's food banks, Government food grants for struggling families have dropped by nearly 20 million dollars in over the past five years. Audio

Why (through the smoke and mirrors), it is now the pervasive rule of big money that drives the American Empire and global capitalist economy, with Paul Street, policy researcher, journalist… Audio

The Eastern Institute of Technology, Work and Income and local iwi have teamed up with an Hawkes Bay orchardist, John Bostock, to set up a training programme that's helped some locals get off the… Audio

With Maree O'Halloran - the official spokesperson for the National Welfare Rights Network (NWRN) and the Director of Sydney's Welfare Rights Centre. Duncan Sandilands - Founder of the Fair Go 4 All… Audio

In 1898, New Zealand became the first country in the world to introduce an old age pension; in 1926 it became the first to introduce a family benefit; then in the 1940s we led the way in introducing a… Audio

Ian Telfer asks whether plans to get solo parents into paid jobs will work. Audio

Should children who work be better protected? Audio