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Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament was brought to a halt on November 14 during the first reading of a controversial and divisive bill that aims to undermine the rights of Māori people.
The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to “redefine” the principles of Aotearoa’s founding document, the Treaty of (…)
Pressure is building on Aotearoa New Zealand’s government to create a humanitarian visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the genocide in Gaza.
More than 30 organisations, including World Vision NZ and Amnesty International, called on the government in March to allow Palestinians who have (…)
Experts say policy changes that include scrapping Māori-led programs will harm communities and put New Zealand’s ‘great reputation’ at risk
Leading Māori figures from across New Zealand have sounded the alarm over the government’s changes to policies that affect Māori, after analysis by the (…)
Chris Trotter’s long journey from the social democratic left to the far right is complete. In a January column, Trotter urged Prime Minister Luxon to call an emergency meeting of state security forces and plan for a race war with the Kīngitanga, whom Trotter likens to the Nazi army in 1938. What (…)
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Fair Pay Agreements Act was repealed by the newly-elected conservative National Party government on December 20.
The bill to repeal the FPA — which was introduced to appease business interests — was rushed through parliament without consultation, implementing the new (…)
The two unions representing workers in New Zealand ports say their members are reluctant to work Russian flagged ships in New Zealand ports and are looking at methods of protest following the outbreak of war.
Both New Zealand unions are affiliated to the International Transport Workers (…)
On the occupation at parliament
-# New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of death from COVID in the world, and is now facing the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Mask wearing, vaccination, vaccine mandates and contact tracing are collective responses to COVID, and collective responses (…)
As New Zealand switches from elimination to suppression, those who argue that COVID-19 will become endemic and part of our lives either do not understand or ignore what this would actually mean.
Elimination has always been a tricky word because it implies eradication. But we have only ever (…)
A fundamental misunderstanding of Māori belief systems and te reo by some of our leading jurists may have contributed to a landmark Court of Appeal finding that has shaped NZ society for the worse, writes Dame Anne Salmond
In 1987, as New Zealand’s neo-liberal revolution was taking off, the (…)
Soon after initial descriptions of an outbreak in Wuhan, China, were shared, reports in late January 2020 (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext. opens in new tab) confirmed that Covid-19 was almost certain to become a serious pandemic. Despite New (…)
New Zealand village complains to ministry of culture and heritage over planned visit by a replica of the Endeavour
A village in New Zealand has banned a replica of Captain Cook’s ship from docking there to mark 250 years since the explorer’s arrival after an outcry from the local Māori (…)
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s credentials at home and abroad as a new kind of leader all hang on her next move
It’s just shy of a year ago that Jacinda Ardern stood in the UN general assembly and spoke in support of the #MeToo movement. There was spontaneous applause from the (…)
Activist leading Ihumātao dispute calls on PM to visit site and act on Māori disadvantage
The leader of a major Indigenous land dispute in New Zealand has criticised Jacinda Ardern’s government for its lack of action on confronting systemic Māori disadvantage, and says the Māori nation is in (…)
KUALA LUMPUR/BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A campaign by New Zealand women including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to don headscarves as a sign of solidarity with Muslim women after the nation’s mosque shootings has divided opinion over whether the gesture was a help or a hindrance. (…)
The Head Scarf for Harmony campaign was started by a doctor who heard about a woman too scared to go out as she felt her headscarf would make her a target for terrorism.
KUALA LUMPUR/BEIRUT, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A campaign by New Zealand women including Prime Minister (…)
Open letter To people of good will, solidarising with victims of the Christchurch massacre To New Zealand Prime Minister, To Mount Royal’s University directors in Calgary, Canada
In response to massacres perpetrated by extreme-right white supremacists in 2 mosques in New Zealand on March 15 (…)
You’ve heard the news: on March 15th, 2019, Aotearoa/New Zealand experienced its largest mass shooting since the colonial massacres, a coordinated terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch. Throughout the day the death toll climbed; first 6, then 27, then 40, and finally 49 (with more (…)
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attack, the International Socialist Organisation National Committee (ISO) in Aotearoa/New Zealand released the following statement.
It is almost beyond comprehension. Fifty people are dead. Another 50 are injured. Hundreds, probably thousands, of (…)
On what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern labeled as “one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” 49 people were killed in shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, the worst act of violence in the country in nearly three decades.
“It is clear that this can now only be described as a (…)
The New Zealand First (NZF) Party was founded in 1993 by Winston Peters, formerly a cabinet minister for the mainstream conservative National Party. Since then, under Peters’ continuous and unchallenged leadership, its share of the popular vote has ranged from 4 to 13% - large enough to be a (…)
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