Mary Williams

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Charities back claim govt failing to protect children

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Charities back claim govt failing to protect children

Dunedin charities caring for children are backing a study published yesterday claiming a government failure to protect children at risk.

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Inside the tents

A homeless woman in a tent at the Oval walks with a crutch, yet has been waiting for a state home...

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Inside the tents

Inside the tents lining the Oval sports field are desperate people on the waiting list for a home and not being given one.

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Solution for Oval situation sought

A community of homeless people are living in tents on road reserve beside the Oval. PHOTO:...

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Solution for Oval situation sought

Sports leaders planning games at a Dunedin park lined with homeless people in tents are meeting with city leaders to demand a solution to the "concerning" situation in plain sight.

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Nail-biting wait for charities

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Nail-biting wait for charities

Last-ditch decision-making on funding charity services for children in the South and nationally could see charities "turning the lights off" this winter.

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How to handle South Dunedin’s future

South Dunedin Eleanor Doig loves it here because of the community spirit, which she says must be...

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How to handle South Dunedin’s future

Rising waters mean it is inevitable some people in South Dunedin will have to shift.

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Council seeks govt cash for South Dn properties

The flat, low-lying suburb of South Dunedin is surrounded by a harbour, the Pacific Ocean and...

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Council seeks govt cash to buy South Dunedin properties

A cap-in-hand plea for cash to buy properties in South Dunedin is being pitched by the Dunedin City Council to government ministers next week.

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‘Solution’ for homeless crisis coming

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‘Solution’ for homeless crisis coming

Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich says he has a plan up his sleeve to tackle the city’s homelessness crisis and hopes to announce it within weeks.

Fears cuts threaten child safety

Fears cuts threaten child safety

Charities in the South helping at-risk children have been warned their state funding could end within the next 10 weeks.

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Residents take aim at council and developers

Rawhiti St residents Angela and Ian Formston hold their stickers objecting to council plans to...

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Residents take aim at council and developers

Residents of a Dunedin street are slapping stickers on their postboxes warning townhouse developers wanting to buy their sections not to come knocking.

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End of government funding for budget advice charity

Manager of the Dunedin Budget Advisory Service Andrew Henderson describes the end of its...

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End of government funding for budget advice charity

A Dunedin budget advice charity which helps more than 1000 families a year has been forced to slash its services after most of its funding was axed by the government.

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Trapped in transitional housing hell

Cathy and her daughter packing up from their motel room to be shifted to different transitional...

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Trapped in transitional housing hell

Homeless people in transitional housing in Dunedin say they are stuck, stigmatised and hit with eviction notices.

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Gaps in $1.5bn homelessness scheme 'very frustrating'

Housing Minister Chris Bishop. Photo: RNZ

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Gaps in $1.5bn homelessness scheme 'very frustrating'

The government admits it has failed to check whether a billion-dollar scheme to tackle homelessness is getting people into homes, including in the South.

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Boarding house review slated

A rundown boarding house in Dunedin. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

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Boarding house review slated

A Dunedin city councillor has slammed a government report auditing the standards of boarding houses as ridiculously restricted in its scope.

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Dunedin social housing faces ‘significant challenge’

An aerial photo of Caversham, the area where the Ministry of Social Development’s office will be...

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Dunedin social housing faces ‘significant challenge’

Building the social housing Dunedin urgently needs will be a "significant challenge" unless changes are made to the city’s development plan, the government’s housing agency says.

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No easy fix for southern Dunedin

Leigh Pickford (left) and Stewart Construction managing director David Grant (centre) meet site...

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No easy fix for southern Dunedin

Why build, and how should we build, in South Dunedin?

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New builds could be ‘uninsurable’

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New builds could be ‘uninsurable’

A leading Dunedin townhouse developer has slammed the door on future projects in some parts of South Dunedin due to concerns properties will become uninsurable as waters rise.

South Dunedin’s watery labyrinth

The June 2015 flood brought wastewater up from the sewers and on to Surrey St, seen in the...

South Dunedin’s watery labyrinth

Nobody wants another contaminated cocktail of stormwater and sewage spewing on their street when South Dunedin floods, but has anything been done to stop it?

MSD referred homeless to volunteer with tents

Dunedin Bedding Bank’s Janine Walker (pictured centre) helps two homeless men put up her last...

MSD referred homeless to volunteer with tents

Ministry of Social Development staff in Dunedin have been pointing homeless people to a volunteer handing out tents and bedding, rather than providing them with a roof where needed.

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Children sleeping on floor in Oranga Tamariki offices

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Children sleeping on floor in Oranga Tamariki offices

Children are sleeping on Oranga Tamariki office floors due to a desperate shortage of emergency foster caregivers, including in the South.

‘Privilege’ to help expand shelter

Dunedin Night Shelter manager David McKenzie (left) and board chairwoman Jenny Turnbull (centre)...

‘Privilege’ to help expand shelter

Building works to double the capacity of Dunedin’s Night Shelter can start soon after a local businessman read about its funding appeal in the ODT and stumped up a fat cheque.

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