Older Australians struggling to find work before hitting the pension age
Sixty-five-year-old Kerry Forrest wants and needs a job. But during the three years she has been applying for…
Tourism legend George Hickton dies, age 78
Then, as chief executive of Tourism New Zealand, he was responsible for establishing New Zealand’s “100% Pure” marketing…
Wellington trial: Teacher accused of sexually violating boy half her age
Sometimes at weekends, he said he’d stay overnight and she’d move the children into the spare bedroom. The…
People in Their 80s Starting Businesses, Can’t Get Hired Elsewhere
Ina Harris, 82, believes that starting a business is the only way she can earn enough to pay…
Government brings in $1000 bonus to keep teens off the dole, speeds up benefit cut plans
“Going on welfare when you’re young is a trap, with recent modelling suggesting that people under the age…
Bowel cancer screening age to be lowered to 58, home tests to be made available
The move would enable 122,000 extra Kiwis to become eligible for the screening in the first year, the…
Calls to reform Australia’s pension age as labourers consider early retirement due to injury
In Australia, the pension age was lifted from 65 to 67 in 2023. For some manual workers, it’s…
The audiobook business is booming. But wages remain low
For Mara Wilson, who played the plucky schoolgirl heroine in the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda,”…
Waikato man Ashley Owen avoids hefty sentence as Crown unable to prove exact age
He would also call her and play the videos to her, so they could both see them. Owen’s…
YA books championed by sisters Annabelle Chang, Alexandra Brown Chang
Annabelle Chang recommends books for a living. If you were to ask which one she finds most “criminally…
Multiple Sclerosis: Pāpāmoa mother diagnosed at age 26 during first pregnancy
Now aged 33, Goddard is sharing her story to mark MS Awareness Week, which begins today. MS is…
My Grandma Did the Splits in Her 90s: Her Diet, Exercise Routine
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aliya Brooks, 25, about her grandmother, Mildred “Millie” Cruzat.…