Tag: Unemployment
Huge NZ Pasifika ministry cuts – ‘first steps toward abolition?’ asks...
RNZ Pacific
Opposition MPs and unions are criticising a proposal by New Zealand's Ministry of Pacific Peoples to cut staff by 40 percent.
The country's largest...
Long term plan needed for underlying PNG problems, says academic
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Academic Andrew Anton Mako says the Papua New Guinea's systemic dysfunction was plain to see in the rioting...
Hipkins warns NZ voters against ‘turning the clock back’ on reforms
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Parliament has ended for another term, shutting down ahead of the Aotearoa New Zealand election campaign with...
Pandemic effect on human rights ‘catastrophic’, says Samoan report
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Ombudsman Luamanuvao Katalaina Sapolu says the human rights effects from the covid-19 pandemic have been catastrophic.
She has just submitted Samoa's eighth State...
NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
More than two million New Zealanders will get a one-off $350 sweetener as part of the Budget's...
The Great Divider: Covid-19 reflects global racism, not equality
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud
The notion that the covid-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer' should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal...
Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
I live in Auckland. Last night while driving home around 8pm I passed a small roadside car park with about 10...
From PNG crime to a small town cycle business – how...
By Sharlyne Eri in Lae
A Papua New Guinean man who once resorted to crime to make a living is now running a bicycle repair...
NZ must help Solomon Islands tackle unemployment ‘time bomb’, says Clark
By Jessica Marshall in Auckland
The Solomon Islands faces a “time bomb” with a youth unemployment rate of 82 percent and New Zealand needs to...
