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What Is The New Zealand Government Trying To Bury In Pike River Mine?
Friday, 18 June 2021, 11:46 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 17 June 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/17/pike-j17.html The New Zealand Labour Party government’s plan to abandon the underground investigation into the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster has sparked significant opposition. Nearly ... More >>
Nurses Strike Against New Zealand Labour Government’s Pay Freeze
Friday, 11 June 2021, 12:47 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives at public hospitals across New Zealand held an eight-hour strike on June 9 to demand a decent pay offer and safe levels of staffing. Thousands of healthcare ... More >>
Media Blackout Of Growing Support For Full Investigation Of Pike River Disaster
Thursday, 3 June 2021, 10:11 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 2 June 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/02/pike-j02.html There is growing anger among workers internationally over the New Zealand Labour Party-led government’s decision to end the manned underground investigation of ... More >>
Wellington Bus Drivers Reject Second Pay Offer, Vote For Strikes
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 11:15 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Chris Ross, John Braddock At a stopwork meeting last Thursday, bus drivers in New Zealand’s capital city Wellington voted 204–3 to reject a new pay offer from NZ Bus and approved a fresh round of strikes. Drivers also passed a unanimous motion ... More >>
Justice For The 29 Miners Killed At New Zealand’s Pike River
Sunday, 23 May 2021, 4:05 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand is calling for international support for the Pike River Families Committee’s demand for a thorough investigation of the disaster and the prosecution of the company leaders who turned the mine into ... More >>
On The Ardern Government's Public Sector Wage Freeze
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 3:51 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group May 14, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/15/nzwa-m15.html New Zealand’s Labour-led government, which includes the Greens, recently declared a pay freeze across the public service for the next three years. The move, which ... More >>
International Mining Experts Release Plan For Full Investigation Of Pike River Disaster
Sunday, 16 May 2021, 3:50 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On May 11, a group of international mining experts released a 23-page Conceptual Development Plan to expand the underground investigation of Pike River coal mine in New Zealand. The document is a major step forward in the fight to uncover the ... More >>
Online Meeting On The 2010 Pike River Mine Disaster In New Zealand Exposes Cover-up By Successive Governments
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 9:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) held an important public webinar last Saturday, titled “Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster: Political lessons of the struggle for the truth about the deaths of 29 men.” It discussed one of ... More >>
Political Upheaval In Samoa Produces Electoral Stalemate
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 2:34 pm | Socialist Equality Group
John Braddock Nearly three weeks after Samoa’s elections, the country’s leader of 22 years, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), is on the verge of being ousted by former deputy and Samoa’s first female MP Fiame ... More >>
Lockout Of Wellington Bus Drivers Lifted After Court Ruling
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
Last Thursday, New Zealand’s biggest public transport company, NZ Bus, announced an indefinite lockout of about 280 drivers in Wellington who were to hold a 24-hour strike the following day against attacks on wages and conditions. The Tramways Union ... More >>
Pike River Families Demand Continued Underground Investigation
Sunday, 18 April 2021, 4:06 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Families of most of the 29 men who died following a series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November 2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground investigation of the disaster, in opposition to the Labour Party-Greens government’s ... More >>
School Students Strike Across NZ Over Inaction On Climate Change
Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 11:16 am | Socialist Equality Group
Thousands of school students walked out of classes to protest throughout New Zealand on April 9 against government inaction on climate change. They were supported by many university students and workers. More than 1,000 people marched through Queen ... More >>
New Zealand Accused Of “backstabbing” Allies Over China
Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 11:01 am | Socialist Equality Group
John Braddock New Zealand’s Labour-Green coalition government is under increasing pressure, from sections of the NZ ruling elite and from the country’s allies, over its apparent reluctance to fully endorse the escalating build-up to war against China. ... More >>
Pike River Mine Disaster Families Oppose Government Plan To End Underground Investigation
Saturday, 3 April 2021, 4:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group On March 23 New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government announced there would be no more funding to continue the underground investigation into the causes of the Pike River Coal (PRC) mine disaster. The announcement by Andrew ... More >>
New Zealand’s Public Hospitals Face Worsening Crisis
Wednesday, 31 March 2021, 11:19 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 31 March 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/30/nzhe-m30.html New Zealand’s public healthcare system is in a severe crisis. Despite the ever-present danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government ... More >>
Oppose Deportations And All Anti-immigrant Measures In Australia And New Zealand!
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 11:05 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) demand an immediate end to deportations and all the attacks on immigrants in Australia and New Zealand. In both countries, migrants are facing widespread, institutionalised ... More >>
Two Years Since The Christchurch Far-right Terrorist Attack
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 10:49 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 19 hours ago, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/17/nzch-m17.html March 15 marked the second anniversary of the Christchurch terrorist attack, in which fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant murdered 51 men, women and children in mass shootings ... More >>
Mounting Job Cuts In New Zealand
Saturday, 13 March 2021, 5:33 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to worsen in New Zealand. Working people are bearing the full burden, through job losses and the soaring cost of living, especially in housing, pushed up by landlords and ... More >>
New Zealand Reserve Bank Reports $69 Billion Of Assets In Māori Economy
Friday, 12 March 2021, 4:47 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 10 March 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/10/maor-m10.html A report released by the New Zealand Reserve Bank in January revealed that Māori businesses and non-profit organisations owned almost $NZ69 billion ($US50.2 billion) ... More >>
New Zealand Government Policies Worsen Housing Crisis
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 8:49 am | Socialist Equality Group
Chris Ross and Tom Peters, On February 25, New Zealand’s finance minister Grant Robertson took the unusual step of instructing the Reserve Bank to “take into account the government’s objective to support more sustainable house prices” ... More >>
