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Ardern promotes internet censorship at UN
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 9:46 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used her visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly to accelerate global efforts to censor the internet. Her government is playing a leading role in exploiting the March 15 Christchurch terrorist ... More >>
170,000 join climate change protests in New Zealand
Sunday, 29 September 2019, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
An estimated 170,000 people joined protests across New Zealand yesterday in the country’s third Climate Strike this year. The turnout represents 3.5 percent of the country’s population. It followed global protests over the past week which ... More >>
On the attacks on National's relations with China
Monday, 16 September 2019, 8:06 am | Socialist Equality Group
The long-running campaign against purported Chinese “interference” in New Zealand’s political system intensified in the past week following a five-day visit to Beijing by opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges. More >>
Official report exposes dire conditions in NZ prisons
Sunday, 8 September 2019, 12:02 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand government’s Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier recently released a damning report on conditions at Ngawha Prison, in the impoverished and socially-divided Northland region, which has a significant inmate population of indigenous Maori. More >>
Crisis erupts in New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Friday, 6 September 2019, 8:40 am | Socialist Equality Group
One year after imposing a sellout agreement on 30,000 nurses and healthcare assistants, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), the country’s third-largest union, is embroiled in factional conflict. More >>
New Zealand economic forecast: “Things could turn ugly”
Friday, 30 August 2019, 9:58 am | Socialist Equality Group
Fears of a global recession, amid the US trade war with China, financial instability and market volatility, are growing around the world. In New Zealand, Westpac bank economists this month downgraded their 2020 annual GDP forecast from 3.1 percent ... More >>
Tongan government threatens to block access to Facebook
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 8:43 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 27 August 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/tong-a27.html The government of Tonga, an impoverished Pacific archipelago with 110,000 inhabitants, is threatening to block all access to Facebook. More >>
Rift widens between Australia and Pacific countries
Monday, 26 August 2019, 9:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 24 August 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/paci-a24.html More >>
Government exploits shooter's letter to censor prisoners
Friday, 23 August 2019, 5:26 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a press conference on August 19 that her government is likely to impose new restrictions on prisoners’ rights to send letters. She said the law could be changed in “weeks.” More >>
Outrage over babies taken by the state
Monday, 19 August 2019, 8:29 am | Socialist Equality Group
On July 30, several hundred people gathered outside parliament in Wellington for a protest titled “Hands Off Our Tamariki [children].” They delivered a petition with 17,000 signatures calling for the government to stop “stealing Maori children.” ... More >>
Maori nationalist parties exploit Ihumātao protest
Friday, 9 August 2019, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 8 August 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/08/ihum-a08.html In recent weeks the New Zealand media has given intense media coverage to an occupation led by Maori activists protesting against a proposed property development at a historic ... More >>
Free Assange and Manning - protest in Wellington on Sunday
Saturday, 13 July 2019, 1:59 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group is hosting a protest rally in Cuba Street, Wellington (at the intersection with Left Bank) on Sunday 14 July at 2:30pm to oppose the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and to demand ... More >>
Protest in Wellington against US brutality towards refugees
Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 10:16 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 8 July 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/08/nzus-j08.html More >>
NZ media promote far-right Christian party
Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 9:15 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 2 July 2019, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/02/dest-j02.html More >>
NZ Primary teacher union pushes through sellout pay deal
Thursday, 27 June 2019, 3:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) announced on Wednesday that a majority of roughly 30,000 primary teachers had voted in favour of a union-backed pay agreement with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party-NZ First-Greens coalition government. ... More >>
Protest on July 14: Free Julian Assange!
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 9:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) will hold a rally in Wellington, as part of the global campaign of the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site to demand freedom for Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks ... More >>
Vote no to union sellout of New Zealand teachers!
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 12:21 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (SEG) calls on teachers to decisively reject the proposed settlement announced last Friday by the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s ... More >>
NZ government extends Iraq and Afghanistan troop deployments
Saturday, 15 June 2019, 11:33 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Labour Party-NZ First-Greens coalition government announced on June 10 that New Zealand’s deployment of about 100 soldiers to Iraq will be extended for another 12 months. The deployment of about a dozen troops to Afghanistan will last for at ... More >>
Teacher speaks out against conditions at impoverished school
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 4:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The WSWS recently spoke to a teacher at a secondary school in a small New Zealand regional town. In his first year in the profession, the young teacher wished to remain anonymous to avoid repercussions for speaking out. But he described the severe crisis ... More >>
NZ secondary teachers’ union cancels industrial action
Saturday, 8 June 2019, 5:22 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 7 June 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/nzte-j07.html More >>
