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New Zealand Deaths Increased 10 Percent Last Year
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 12:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters With barely any media coverage, and total silence from the Labour Party-led government and opposition parties, New Zealand’s COVID-19 disaster is continuing. In the fortnight ending March 5, there were 58 COVID-related deaths reported, ... More >>
New Zealand’s Flooding Disaster And The Case For Socialism
Friday, 3 March 2023, 11:03 am | Socialist Equality Group
Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/02/bqqb-m02.html Large parts of the North Island of New Zealand, including Auckland, Northland, the East Coast and Hawke’s Bay, remain in a state of devastation after unprecedented floods triggered ... More >>
Twelve Years After Christchurch Earthquake, Building Collapse Victims Denied Justice
Monday, 27 February 2023, 2:05 am | Socialist Equality Group
While large parts of New Zealand are reeling from the flooding caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, which killed 11 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, February 22 marked the twelfth anniversary of another catastrophic event: the earthquake ... More >>
New Zealand Government Slashes Funding For COVID Response
Thursday, 16 February 2023, 3:47 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 16 February 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/16/tzil-f16.html Even as thousands of people have been made homeless and at least five have died in New Zealand’s worst storm in decades, the country continues to experience a simultaneous ... More >>
New Zealand Faces Ongoing Pressure To Upgrade Anti-China Stance
Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 9:52 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s newly installed Labour Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, visited his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on February 7. It was his first overseas trip as leader after he assumed office on January 25 following the resignation of ... More >>
Demands For “co-governance” Intensify
Saturday, 11 February 2023, 6:59 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Waitangi Day this year provoked escalating demands for constitutional change to entrench Māori “co-governance” across the political system. The day celebrates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between tribal chiefs and representatives of ... More >>
Court Action Over Pike River Mine Disaster
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 10:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Families of two of the 29 workers killed in the Pike River coal mine disaster in New Zealand have taken court action to obtain documents and information relating to the decision to drop charges against Pike River Coal chief executive ... More >>
Māori “cultural Experts” Fawn Over Naming Of Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 8:34 am | Socialist Equality Group
According to the New Zealand Herald on January 12, a decision by American billionaire Jeff Bezos to bestow a Māori name on his new superyacht has been met with enthusiastic fawning from New Zealand “cultural experts.” More >>
On Jacinda Ardern's Resignation
Saturday, 21 January 2023, 7:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
In a shock announcement on Thursday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the media she would step down from the position by February 7 and leave parliament in April. After more than five years leading the Labour Party-led government, Ardern ... More >>
New Zealand’s COVID Wave Continues As XBB.1.5 Variant Found
Thursday, 19 January 2023, 10:22 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand’s third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of people being hospitalised each week due to the virus. In the week ending January 15, another 57 people were reported to have died within ... More >>
Reject Sellout Of Wellington Rail Workers!
Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 11:04 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group calls on workers on the passenger railway network in Wellington, New Zealand, to reject the sellout deal recommended to them by the Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU). The proposed Multi-Employer Collective Agreement ... More >>
Escalating Assault On Workers’ Living Standards In New Zealand
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 5:10 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 20 December 2022 Original url, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/20/aykk-d20.html The soaring cost of living is placing increasing pressure on working people in New Zealand and driving many into poverty, and the situation will continue to worsen ... More >>
Ukrainian President Zelensky Speaks To New Zealand Parliament
Friday, 16 December 2022, 10:38 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters. On Wednesday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the New Zealand parliament via video-link. As with his previous speeches to the UK, German and Australian parliaments, Zelenksy’s 10-minute address was a propaganda ... More >>
VUW Hosts Exhibition Glorifying Ukrainian Fascists
Friday, 9 December 2022, 4:53 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters. Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) is currently hosting an installation designed to promote the US-NATO proxy war being waged by Ukraine’s military against Russia, while whitewashing the Ukrainian regime and its fascist supporters. The exhibition, ... More >>
NZ Tertiary Union Takes Legal Case Over Job Cuts
Sunday, 4 December 2022, 6:34 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Union (TEU) announced on November 24 that it will take legal action against the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), the city’s second largest, over the axing of 170 staff positions. The legal challenge in the ... More >>
New Zealand National Security Briefing Promotes War And Censorship
Monday, 14 November 2022, 3:36 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government this month released a “Draft National Security Long-term Insights Briefing,” prepared by the department of the prime minister and cabinet and the ministry of foreign affairs, in collaboration ... More >>
New Zealand Arts Funding Agency Attacks Shakespeare As Part Of “Canon Of Imperialism”
Friday, 4 November 2022, 3:02 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/03/ktkd-n03.html The recent decision by the public arts funding agency Creative New Zealand (CNZ) to stop its funding for the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) was a reactionary ... More >>
New COVID Wave In New Zealand
Sunday, 30 October 2022, 6:39 pm | Socialist Equality Group
COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalisations are continuing to increase sharply in New Zealand. A third Omicron wave is spreading unimpeded as a result of the Labour Party-led government removing all public health measures. Yesterday the Ministry ... More >>
New Zealand Stalinist Ken Douglas And The Historic Degeneration Of The Trade Unions
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 10:33 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters and John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/24/aiab-o24.html Ken Douglas, who played a leading role in the New Zealand trade union movement from 1979–1999, first as the Federation of Labour (FOL) secretary, then ... More >>
New Zealand Local Elections Highlight Growing Opposition To Labour Government
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 3:06 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 17 October 2022 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/17/abtl-o17.html New Zealand’s local council elections, held throughout the country from mid-September to October 8, resulted in defeat for mayoral candidates aligned with ... More >>
