AGAINST THE CURRENT: poverty

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THE GOVERNMENT'S WAR ON THE POOR

The Government is engaged in a war against the poor, pandering to prejudices that they are living the high life on a benefit that barely all...

According to Act Party leader David Seymour, we've never had it so good! He claims that 'Even the poorest people in New Zealand toda...

According to Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson poverty is the result of 'colonisation' and 'racism'. It's a view th...

In 2017 Jacinda Ardern said that any Government she led would tackle poverty as a priority. But in 2022, and after five years of a Labour Go...

According to an article in the Listener and republished by the NZ Herald , the New Zealand middle class is 'indifferent' to poverty...

Green co-leader Marama Davidson displays a blatant disregard for the plight of the poor. GREEN CO-LEADER Marama Davidson has been doing some...

The call by the Fairer Futures coalition for 'livable incomes for all' will be ignored by a Prime Minister and a Government that thi...

The Labour Government, supported by the Green Party, have overseen the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich elite in New Zealand's his...

Last week the Prime Minister visited a 'Social Supermarket'. Did she pick up any groceries? THERE WAS A TIME when New Zealand did no...

The Salvation Army's State of the Nation report was met with largely indifference from the Labour Government this week. THE SALVATION ...

This Christmas has highlighted the increasing number of folk who are going hungry. Perhaps its time we asked Unicef for its help... 'I ...

Here are a few New Zealanders enjoying life under the 'lesser evil' Labour Government...aren't they lucky?

While Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spills tears for the victims of the Whakaari White Island eruption, little compassion is in evidence for...

This Christmas tens of thousands of New Zealanders will go hungry. But the Government is claiming it is doing everything it can to get folk...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected widespread calls to alleviate the growing level of poverty and desperation by increasing core w...

New Zealand is facing a jobs catastrophe, driving more people into subsistence living and poverty. But, fear not, Carmel Sepuloni is her...

Even as the queues lengthen at the food banks, Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni thinks the recent minuscule $25 increase in c...

While the New Zealand mainstream media worries about Health Minister David Clark, more and more New Zealanders are struggling to put...