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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 >>
'New Zealand Media, Government Demonise Russian Migrant Workers'
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 5:41 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand Herald reported on October 8 that unnamed representatives of the country’s “Ukrainian community” held a “high-level meeting” with the Labour Party-led government where they “raised concerns with government officials over ... More >>
New Zealand Nurses Take Action Over Staffing Crisis And Pay Cut
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 10:59 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters This week, nurses in public hospitals across New Zealand are refusing to work overtime shifts after the government agency Health NZ ended a temporary “winter bonus” payment of $100 per extra shift worked. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation ... More >>
New Zealand Police To Drill More Boreholes At Pike River Mine
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 12:00 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand police made the unexpected announcement on September 30 that they will drill another 10 boreholes into the abandoned underground Pike River coal mine, the scene of a series of explosions in November 2010 which killed 29 workers. ... More >>
At UN, New Zealand PM Backs War Against Russia, Promotes Internet Censorship
Saturday, 1 October 2022, 5:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
At the United Nations general assembly last week, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reiterated her government’s continued and deepening support for the US-NATO war against Russia over Ukraine. The gathering of world leaders took place as Russia ... More >>
New Zealand Government Promotes Complacency About COVID-19
Saturday, 24 September 2022, 6:03 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Following New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement last week ending mask mandates and most other public health measures, the Labour Party-led government and corporate media are attempting to sow as much complacency as possible about the ... More >>
New Zealand Ruling Elite Glorifies British Monarchy
Friday, 23 September 2022, 11:22 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand’s political and media establishment has joined in the mind-numbing glorification of Queen Elizabeth II and the British monarchy over the past fortnight. The Labour Party-led government announced a period of mourning, culminating ... More >>
Essity Ends Lockout In New Zealand After Unions Impose Sellout Deal
Friday, 16 September 2022, 2:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters On September 14, toilet paper manufacturing company Essity agreed to end its lockout of 145 workers in the New Zealand town of Kawerau, after they voted to accept a below-inflation pay agreement. Workers will return to the factory ... More >>
New Zealand Government Ends COVID Mask Mandates
Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 11:41 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 13 September 2022 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/13/gyos-s13.html On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the end of mask mandates and other public health measures. Even as thousands of people are becoming infected with COVID ... More >>
Homelessness Worsens Dramatically In New Zealand Under Labour
Sunday, 11 September 2022, 5:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s worsening homelessness crisis, driven by property speculation, soaring rents and not enough public housing, is fuelling anger towards the Labour Party-led government, as well as the re-emergence of strikes and industrial action by workers. ... More >>
NZ Government’s “Working With Survivors” Continues Cover-up Of Pike River Mine Disaster
Thursday, 8 September 2022, 11:57 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters On August 30, the New Zealand Labour Party government unveiled an 11-page document entitled “Working with Survivors,” outlining “minimum expectations” for state agencies dealing with survivors of “large-scale catastrophic events,” ... More >>
New Zealand Media, Politicians Ramp Up War Propaganda After Soldier Killed In Ukraine
Friday, 2 September 2022, 9:50 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters On August 24, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) revealed that one of its soldiers had been killed in Ukraine, while on unpaid leave from the army. Corporal Dominic Abelen, aged 28, was killed on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, ... More >>
Labour Government To Expand Exploitative Migrant Labour Schemes
Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 9:48 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock New Zealand’s Labour government announced last week that it will ease restrictions on temporary migrant workers to address severe labour shortages in critical areas. Despite the removal of most COVID restrictions and the ... More >>
Five Construction Workers Injured In Explosion In Auckland
Tuesday, 30 August 2022, 10:50 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Many questions remain about an explosion at a construction site near Auckland’s waterfront on Friday, which seriously injured five workers. All five were hospitalised, and Middlemore Hospital told the media on Saturday that two were ... More >>
New Zealand Firefighters Hold Second One-hour Strike
Monday, 29 August 2022, 1:52 am | Socialist Equality Group
Around 2,000 firefighters and support staff employed by Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) stopped work for one hour on Friday, following a nationwide strike a week earlier. More stoppages are scheduled for September 2 and 9. Firefighters again held ... More >>
Lockout Of Essity Workers In Kawerau In Third Week
Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 2:41 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters For more than a fortnight 145 factory workers in Kawerau, a New Zealand town with a population of about 7,000, have been locked out by Essity, a Swedish-based multinational company. The Kawerau plant makes well-known brands such as Purex and ... More >>
New Zealand Firefighters Hold Nationwide Strike
Tuesday, 23 August 2022, 11:03 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Last Friday, nearly 2,000 professional firefighters and support staff stopped work for one hour across New Zealand, in what was the first ever nationwide strike by these critical workers. Firefighters held dozens of rallies in ... More >>
