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"The purpose of this preliminary Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) Backgrounder, Whakapono: end child poverty in Māori whānau, is to report the current situation for tamariki Māori, with particular focus on social and economic conditions, and the...
What is child poverty, what evidence is there of such poverty in New Zealand and why does it matter? These questions regularly attract answers accompanied by conjecture and prejudice. This BWB Text uses the latest evidence and a non-partisan...
'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday...
Set in provincial, pre-1940 New Zealand, this novel explores the Withers family and in particular Daphne. When one of Daphne's sisters, Francie, dies at the rubbish dump where the children search for treasure, a crisis is provoked which leads...