International media batter New Zealand's progressive social welfare legacyFirst The Guardian and now Al Jazeera. The article, 'New Zealand's most shameful secret: we have normalised child poverty', discussed the worsening rate of child poverty and said more than twice as many children now live below the poverty line compared to the early 1980s. READ MORE:* One in 100 Kiwis homeless: study* Taika Waititi urges Kiwis to do more about child poverty* Child poverty is everyone's issue - Children's Commissioner* Nelson boy came to school limping and shoeless* Moko's killers: Tania Shailer became a child killer overnight* Faces of Innocents: These are the kids we've lostHow can we eliminate child poverty? Tolley rejected the line taken by the news organisation, which also described South Auckland as an "urban slum". An Al Jazeera take on homelessness in New Zealand focused on the plight of a woman in South Auckland.

Source: Stuff August 25, 2016 01:11 UTC