The new Government is being urged to hand power and resources to iwi and community organisations to provide long-term support for those in persistent disadvantage.
Rebecca Macfie
Rebecca Macfie is a leading investigative journalist, and the author of Tragedy at Pike River Mine (Awa Press, 2013; updated edition 2021), and Helen Kelly: Her Life (Awa Press, 2021), longlisted for the best book of non-fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand national book awards.
Family's case over forest worker's death fails
A rare private health and safety prosecution over the death of a young Ngāti Porou forestry worker has been dismissed by the court.
Nightmarish ACC dispute deals butcher a bad hand
A meatworker injured on the job has lost money, time, his job as he knew it and his mana. How did it come to this?
Forestry firm says killed worker at fault
In a rare private prosecution over the workplace death of a young forestry worker seven years ago, the employer defended its procedures and blamed the worker, writes Rebecca Macfie
Rare private prosecution in forestry death
A Tairāwhiti family has brought a rare private prosecution against a logging contractor over the workplace death of their son in a Hawkes Bay pine forest. Rebecca Macfie reports.
Housing: a public policy disaster for 30 years
A major social housing conference this week heard the housing crisis has been decades in the making and won’t be turned around quickly.
Govt purge: Contractor law reform dumped
Michael Wood’s ambition to bring about long-overdue reform to address a glaring power imbalance in the workplace has been put on ice. Rebecca Macfie reports.
Courier firm ordered to make driving safe
Courier firm Aramex is again in the gun over worker health and safety
In isolated Wairoa, the meatworks steps up
The major employer in devastated Wairoa sees its plant saved from flooding and with the town cut off by road, short of fuel and running low on water, it's working with the district council and army to help prop up essential services.
Behind the 12% pay rise for Countdown staff
Spurred by the soaring cost of living and confidence that the public had their backs, supermarket workers have won a major pay rise after six months of bargaining.
A big win, six years after her death
This week’s passing into law of the Fair Pay Agreements Bill is the legacy of a passionate union leader who was driven to uphold the rights and dignity of workers.
Fair pay in the balance
Employers are hanging their hopes on a change of government next year, which would ensure a short shelf-life for Labour’s Fair Pay Agreement legislation.