The filmmaker of a highly anticipated documentary hitting Kiwis' television screens on Tuesday says child poverty is still "bad" in New Zealand.
The damning documentary New Zealand: Inside Child Poverty was released in 2011 and ignited a political battle days before the general election.
The sequel will air on Tuesday night leaving much longer for the revelations to be dug into before next year's election.
The sequel titled: Inside Child Poverty Revisited will air on Three and Three Now at 8:40pm.
Statistics New Zealand data showed in the year ended June 2021, 13.6 percent of New Zealand children (156,700) lived in households with less than 50 percent of the median equivalised disposable household income before deducting housing costs.
This was a decrease over three years from 16.5 percent (183,400) in the year ended June 2018. The intermediate target of a reduction to 10.5 percent for this measure was not met.
Documentary maker Bryan Bruce told AM on Tuesday child poverty has gone from "very bad to bad".
"It's amazing what you can do with statistics isn't it? The reality of this is we've gone from very bad to bad … so nothing much to be proud about there. We've got a long way to go to be good," Bruce told AM.
Watch the full interview with Bryan Bruce above.
