By Chris Ormond of NZPA Wellington, July 8 NZPA - Concerns about what might come out of the Government's Welfare Working Group (WWG) have sparked a drive from a group of welfare organisations and academics so that those affected will get to have a say.

Wellington, July 1 NZPA - The Government and the Green Party can't both be right -- either the gender pay gap has decreased since National came to power, or it has increased. Women's Affairs Minister Pansy Wong yesterday told Parliament it had decreased from 12 percent to 11 percent.

By Stephanie McKay of NZPA Wellington, June 30 NZPA - Women's Affairs Minister Pansy Wong has done nothing to close the gender pay gap and her comments following a pay disparity protest were flippant and disrespectful, the Green Party says.

Wellington, June 23 NZPA - Nearly 50,000 people have signed a Green Party-organised petition opposing opening up protected conservation land for mining.

Wellington, June 22 NZPA - National education standards will make students feel like failures, Wellington's Mount Cook School principal Sandra McCallum says.

Wellington, June 22 NZPA - An education sector union will today take a petition to Parliament outlining concerns with the implementation of national standards in schools.

By Maggie Tait and Kate Chapman of NZPA

By Kate Chapman of NZPA Wellington, June 8 NZPA -Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty is unhappy she and party co-leader Metiria Turei have been told they cannot attend the Welfare Working Group's forum.

By Paloma Migone of NZPA Wellington, May 27 NZPA - With the message 'Trade Me, not trade trees,' 15 activists today challenged auction website Trade Me to stop the sale of illegally-logged kwila on its site.

By Chris Ormond of NZPA Wellington, May 26 NZPA - A mining company has given more ammunition to those opposing mineral prospecting on protected land by signalling its own reservations about digging up pristine areas.