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New Zealand Government Abandons Elimination Policy For COVID-19
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 10:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
by Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 6 October 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/06/elim-o06.html Since New Zealand first went into a nationwide lockdown in March 2020, it has been one of a very small handful of countries with a stated policy of eliminating COVID-19 ... More >>
Teacher And Advocate Opposes Reopening Of Early Childcare During COVID-19 Outbreak
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 11:54 am | Socialist Equality Group
On September 22, New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government eased the COVID-19 lockdown in Auckland from “level 4,” the strictest level, to “level 3.” More than 200,000 people are estimated to have returned to workplaces, with restrictions such ... More >>
New Zealand Government Eases COVID-19 Lockdown In Auckland
Friday, 24 September 2021, 10:41 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 23 September 2021, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/23/auck-s23.html On Wednesday the lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, was eased from “alert level 4” to “level 3,” despite new cases of the highly infectious ... More >>
New Zealand PM “Pleased To See” AUKUS Military Pact
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 7:02 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 22 September 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/22/nzau-s22.html The Labour Party-Greens coalition government in New Zealand has cautiously welcomed the AUKUS military pact announced on September 16 by US President Joe Biden and the ... More >>
New Zealand Pseudo-left Daily Blog Promotes Wuhan Lab Lie
Thursday, 9 September 2021, 3:32 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The trade union-funded Daily Blog, the most significant publication of New Zealand’s liberal and pseudo-left commentators, last month posted the latest in a long-running series of blogs promoting the lie that the deadly COVID-19 virus originally escaped ... More >>
Rising hospitalisations in New Zealand’s Delta outbreak
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 10:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group On Wednesday the New Zealand government reported another 75 cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, bringing the total infections from the current outbreak to 687. Almost all are in the biggest city, Auckland, with ... More >>
New Zealand Pseudo-lefts Cover Their Tracks Over Afghan War
Saturday, 28 August 2021, 4:10 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The historic debacle of the US and its allies in Afghanistan has sharply exposed the predatory nature of the imperialist war, and demolished the fabrications used by all the political parties and individuals that promoted it. The invasion was a ... More >>
New Zealand Ruling Elite Whitewashes Its 'Contribution' To Afghan War
Sunday, 22 August 2021, 4:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand government this week dispatched an Air Force Hercules plane with 40 military personnel to Afghanistan to evacuate over 100 NZ citizens, plus foreign nationals and Afghanis who collaborated with the allied occupation of the country. ... More >>
New Zealand locked down after Delta cases identified
Thursday, 19 August 2021, 11:12 am | Socialist Equality Group
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, and the Coromandel region, will be placed in lockdown for seven days, and the rest of the country for three days, after a 58-year-old Auckland man tested ... More >>
New Zealand Government Lies About Pike River Mine Re-entry Promises
Friday, 13 August 2021, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 13 August 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/12/pike-a12.html The Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA) in New Zealand is continuing work on sealing the underground Pike River coal mine, where 29 workers lost their lives in a series ... More >>
New Zealand Government’s Proposed “hate Speech” Law Attacks Free Speech
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 9:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock Against a backdrop of rising social tensions, widening inequality and emerging resistance by the working class to austerity, New Zealand’s Labour Party-Greens government is preparing new “hate speech” laws that will ... More >>
Union Sells Out Wellington Bus Drivers
Sunday, 1 August 2021, 4:46 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Following an extremely tense meeting on Thursday, July 29, bus drivers in Wellington voted narrowly to approve a sellout collective employment agreement (CEA) hatched by NZ Bus and the Tramways Union. Union secretary Kevin O’Sullivan told Stuff that ... More >>
NZ Labour Government Moves To Seal Pike River Mine
Saturday, 24 July 2021, 4:44 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand government’s Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA) resumed work this week on installing the first of two seals in the Pike River underground coal mine. The Labour Party-led government is intent on ending an underground investigation ... More >>
New Zealand Nurses Prepare More Strikes As Healthcare Crisis Worsens
Thursday, 15 July 2021, 11:09 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives in public hospitals around New Zealand voted earlier this month to hold another three nationwide strikes. The members of the New Zealand Nurses ... More >>
Online Meeting: The Wellington Bus Drivers Dispute And The Case For Rank-and-file Committees
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 9:01 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand is holding a public meeting on Saturday July 17 at 4:00 PM to discuss the way forward for bus drivers in Wellington, and the need to build rank-and-file committees. We call on workers and students throughout ... More >>
The Wellington Bus Drivers Dispute And The Case For Rank-and-file Committees
Sunday, 4 July 2021, 5:06 pm | Socialist Equality Group
More than a week ago, drivers employed by NZ Bus in Wellington voted against a sellout deal hatched by the Tramways Union and management. The offer, the third that the drivers have rejected, would have increased hourly wages to just two dollars above ... More >>
New Zealand Government “complacent” Over Deepening COVID-19 Danger
Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:21 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group Several New Zealand health experts have warned that Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party-Greens coalition government has become “complacent“ over COVID-19 and didn’t act fast enough to suspend travel with ... More >>
Stop The New Zealand Government’s Plan To Seal Pike River Mine!
Monday, 28 June 2021, 3:40 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 28 June 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/nzpi-j28.html The Labour Party-led government is racing to shut down the underground investigation of Pike River coal mine. It aims to prevent the recovery of evidence that could lead ... More >>
Growing Homelessness In New Zealand
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:06 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group The latest Knight Frank Global House Price Index showed that New Zealand house prices in the first quarter of 2021 were an astonishing 22.1 percent higher than 12 months earlier. The average global increase was 7.3 percent, ... More >>
Wellington Bus Drivers Reject Union-backed Sellout
Friday, 25 June 2021, 11:34 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 24 June 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/24/nzbu-j24.html Following a very heated meeting of union members on Wednesday, bus drivers in Wellington voted 150 to 73 to reject a third pay offer from NZ Bus, in opposition to the Tramways ... More >>
