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The right-wing record of Jacinda Ardern’s government
Tuesday, 4 February 2020, 11:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
The right-wing record of Jacinda Ardern’s government in New Zealand By the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) 3 February 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/03/arde-f03.html New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on January 28 that the next election ... More >>
Paralysed woman faces life-threatening deportation
Saturday, 1 February 2020, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
In a case which highlights the increasing brutality of New Zealand’s immigration system, a paralysed Tongan woman and her family are due to be deported on January 31, despite doctors warning the mother of six could die. More >>
On the far-right soldier charged with disclosing intel
Monday, 27 January 2020, 8:54 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 25 January 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/25/fasc-j25.html More >>
New Zealand Greens support military build-up
Friday, 24 January 2020, 10:05 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Green Party purports to have a pacifist foreign policy. Its founding charter lists “non-violent conflict resolution” as one of four guiding principles. Following the recent US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, an act ... More >>
Union shuts down bus drivers’ strike, scapegoats migrants
Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 10:32 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 6 January 2019, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/06/buss-j06.html More >>
White Island - will tourism companies be held accountable?
Thursday, 19 December 2019, 9:40 am | Socialist Equality Group
Sixteen people are confirmed dead and another two are unaccounted for, presumed dead, after the eruption of White Island/Whakaari volcano on December 9. Twenty-six people remain in New Zealand and Australian hospitals, all with severe burns requiring complex ... More >>
Growing poverty and inequality in New Zealand
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 9:31 am | Socialist Equality Group
Numerous reports point to worsening poverty and social inequality in New Zealand, more than two years after the formation of the Labour Party-led government, which pledged to end the former National Party government’s austerity regime, imposed ... More >>
On Samoa's deadly measles epidemic
Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 8:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 3 December 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/03/samo-d03.html More >>
NZ military’s unexploded bombs killed Afghan civilians
Saturday, 23 November 2019, 11:25 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s military was responsible for 17 civilian deaths and injuries, including the deaths of 7 children, caused by unexploded bombs left behind at firing ranges in Bamyan province, Afghanistan. The deaths, reported by Stuff Circuit on November ... More >>
Shane Jones echoes fascist gunman’s manifesto
Friday, 15 November 2019, 8:52 am | Socialist Equality Group
Shane Jones, a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour-led government, and a member of the right-wing NZ First Party, has used the government’s intensifying attacks on immigrants to echo the extreme-right positions espoused in the Christchurch ... More >>
New Zealand military to expand Pacific presence
Saturday, 9 November 2019, 11:11 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 8 November 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/08/paci-n08.html More >>
Labour-led government extends draconian anti-terror laws
Friday, 8 November 2019, 8:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
A Bill that gives authorities greater powers over so-called returning “foreign fighters” passed its first reading in the New Zealand parliament on October 24, after a last-minute deal between the Labour Party and the Greens. The two are partners ... More >>
Public meeting: Free Julian Assange!
Friday, 1 November 2019, 8:32 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Trump administration is seeking to extradite Julian Assange, an award-winning Australian journalist and citizen, and put him on trial on multiple charges of espionage. His only alleged crime? In 2010, WikiLeaks published documents leaked by Chelsea ... More >>
New Zealand defence chief admits Afghan civilian death
Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 9:53 am | Socialist Equality Group
After years of stonewalling and denials, New Zealand’s Chief of Defence has accepted that a three-year-old girl was likely killed during a 2010 New Zealand Special Forces (SAS) raid in Afghanistan. More >>
On the SkyCity Convention Centre fire
Friday, 25 October 2019, 9:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
Firefighters this morning brought a major fire under control at the construction site for Auckland’s SkyCity Convention Centre, one of the city’s largest and most expensive building projects. The centre’s unfinished roof burst into flames ... More >>
On the Ardern government's class-based immigration
Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 8:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
On October 7, New Zealand’s Labour Party-led coalition government announced draconian class-based restrictions on immigration. From February 2020, the government will reopen the Parent Category visa nearly four years after the previous National Party ... More >>
Inquiry whitewashes Kiribati government over ferry disaster
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 10:04 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 21 October 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/21/kiri-o21.html More >>
New Zealand housing crisis worsens under Labour government
Thursday, 17 October 2019, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Nearly two years into its term in office, and ten months after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared that 2019 would be her Labour Party-led government’s “year of delivery,” one of New Zealand’s major social issues—housing—is embroiled ... More >>
Free Julian Assange! Protest in Wellington
Wednesday, 9 October 2019, 12:29 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Free Assange NZ, supported by the Socialist Equality Group, is holding a protest in Wellington this Friday October 11 at 1pm, to demand freedom for Julian Assange. More >>
Unexplained death at university hall of residence
Saturday, 5 October 2019, 12:08 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 3 October 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/03/nzcu-o03.html More >>
