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New Zealand Schools And Public Transport Will Be Breeding Grounds For Omicron Infections
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 9:16 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters The New Zealand government’s decision to let the highly-infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 spread across the country has sparked significant anxiety and anger, including among parents and public transport workers. Labour Party Prime ... More >>
Omicron Outbreak In New Zealand - Stop Schools Reopening!
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 11:08 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters On Sunday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the extremely transmissible Omicron variant of COVID-19 is circulating in the community in New Zealand—and confirmed that the Labour Party-led government will do nothing to stop ... More >>
New Zealand PM Declares 'We Won’t Stop Omicron'
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 6:06 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed yesterday that her Labour Party-led government will allow the Omicron variant to circulate once it enters the community, setting the stage for a calamity in New Zealand similar to those unfolding throughout the ... More >>
New Zealand COVID-19 Experts Take Action Against Auckland University Over Online Abuse
Friday, 21 January 2022, 3:08 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Two of New Zealand’s most prominent COVID-19 experts are taking legal action against their employer, the University of Auckland, for allegedly failing to take steps to protect them against a bombardment of threats and abuse from individuals ... More >>
New Zealand Government To Reopen Schools Despite Omicron Threat
Tuesday, 11 January 2022, 10:51 am | Socialist Equality Group
John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 10 January, 2022 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/10/nzsc-j10.html With New Zealand’s new school term beginning in under three weeks, the Labour-Green Party government has declared that it wants students back in class full-time this ... More >>
Migrant Workers Face Discriminatory Policies In New Zealand
Thursday, 30 December 2021, 5:58 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Thousands of migrant workers in New Zealand continue to face major barriers to staying in the country, despite the Labour Party-led government announcing a decision to grant a “one-off pathway to residency” for 165,000 people already in the country ... More >>
NZ Government Won't Immediately Lock Down If Omicron Appears In Community
Friday, 24 December 2021, 11:22 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 23 December 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/23/omnz-d23.html On Tuesday, New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government announced that it is delaying plans to ease border restrictions, due to the threat posed by the extremely infectious ... More >>
More Bodies Photographed After Sealing Of Pike River Mine
Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 9:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group December 21, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/21/pike-d21.html On December 19, New Zealand Police announced that “two sets of probable human remains and one set of possible human remains” have been seen in footage taken by a camera ... More >>
New Zealand Defence Assessment Calls For More Aggressive Anti-China Stance
Tuesday, 21 December 2021, 9:57 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock Socialist Equality Group. Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/20/nzde-d20.html New Zealand’s Defence Ministry released a new Defence Assessment on December 8, its first since 2014, titled, in Maori and English, “He Moana Pukepuke e Ekengia ... More >>
Omicron Case Identified In New Zealand
Saturday, 18 December 2021, 8:58 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On Thursday, the New Zealand government confirmed that a case of the extremely infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in a traveller staying at a managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) hotel in Christchurch. The person arrived from Germany, ... More >>
New Zealand Rail Union Cancels Strike, Presents Sellout Deal
Friday, 17 December 2021, 5:12 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) announced on December 7 that it had withdrawn a notice for a nationwide strike on December 16 and 17, following negotiations with the state-owned employer KiwiRail. The strike would have involved 2,500 workers ... More >>
Soaring Social Inequality Under New Zealand Labour Government
Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 10:26 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 14 December 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/14/nzin-d14.html Recent reports show that the response of the Labour Party-led government in New Zealand to the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic has further widened the already ... More >>
New Zealand’s Daily Blog Glorifies Fascist Killer Kyle Rittenhouse
Monday, 13 December 2021, 9:14 am | Socialist Equality Group
In the latest sign of the stampede to the right by New Zealand’s Daily Blog, its editor Martyn Bradbury wrote an article on November 24 defending Kyle Rittenhouse, who was recently acquitted of murdering two people and attempting to murder a third ... More >>
COVID-19 Spreads Through New Zealand Schools And Childcare Centres
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 12:04 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters and Rachel Costello In New Zealand, COVID-19 has spread into well over 130 schools and early childhood education centres (ECEs) since the outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant began in August. The figure was only ... More >>
Delta Spreads As New Zealand Government Ends Auckland Lockdown
Wednesday, 8 December 2021, 10:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Last Friday, Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party-Greens coalition government ended what remained of the lockdown in Auckland, allowing all remaining businesses and public venues to reopen. This followed decisions ... More >>
New Zealand Rail Union Enters Talks Ahead Of National Strike
Saturday, 4 December 2021, 5:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group The New Zealand Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) entered facilitated mediation with state-owned KiwiRail on Monday in a bid to avert two rail strikes by 2,500 workers on December 16 and 17. The strikes, ... More >>
New Zealand Opposition Picks New Right-wing Leader
Friday, 3 December 2021, 10:39 am | Socialist Equality Group
On Tuesday, New Zealand’s main opposition National Party installed Christopher Luxon as its new leader—the fourth person to lead the conservative party in the space of just two years. Since it lost the 2017 election, the party has been beset ... More >>
New Zealand Labour-led Government Continues Attacks On Immigrants
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 9:29 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group The immigration minister in New Zealand’s Labour-led government, Kris Faafoi, announced in September that migrants living in NZ on temporary work visas would be “fast-tracked” for residency. Trumpeted ... More >>
Auckland Lockdown To End On December 3 Even Though Delta Surge Continues
Friday, 26 November 2021, 9:20 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 25 November 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/25/nzco-n25.html New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed on Monday that the Labour Party-led government will abandon lockdowns as a means to suppress COVID-19 on December 3. ... More >>
On The Images Of Bodies In Pike River Mine
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 11:15 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine More >>
