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Australia Cancels Citizenship Of Woman Labelled ISIS Terrorist
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 5:24 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On February 16, Turkish authorities announced that a 26-year-old woman, Suhayra Aden, was captured with her two children while crossing the border from Syria. Turkey’s Defence Ministry said she was wanted as an alleged Islamic State (ISIS) “terrorist.” ... More >>
Ten Years After New Zealand Earthquake, No Justice For Victims Of Building Collapse
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 3:10 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Monday marks ten years since the February 22, 2011, Christchurch earthquake, which killed 185 people. Thousands of buildings were destroyed or severely damaged, and entire suburbs in the city’s working class east, ... More >>
New Zealand Towns’ Drinking Water Contaminated With Lead
Sunday, 14 February 2021, 4:28 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On February 2, Dunedin City Council (DCC) warned about 1,500 residents of the coastal towns of Waikouaiti and Karitāne, in the Otago region in the South Island, not to drink tap water, after tests found it was contaminated with lead. The council initially ... More >>
Air New Zealand Admits To Working For Saudi Arabian Navy
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 4:08 pm | Socialist Equality Group
TVNZ’s “One News” reported on February 8 that Air New Zealand, the national airline, “has been secretly helping the Saudi Arabian military despite it fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Yemen.” For “nearly eight weeks,” the report stated, ... More >>
Australian PM Calls On New Zealand To 'Align More' Against China
Sunday, 7 February 2021, 4:52 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On Sky News on February 1, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called on New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government to “stick together” with the US-led Five Eyes intelligence network, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Canada, ... More >>
New Zealand Government Bans Foreign Cruise Ship Workers
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 10:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters On January 29, New Zealand’s immigration minister Kris Faafoi announced that the approaching cruise ship Le Lapérouse had stopped just outside the country’s exclusive economic zone and was being advised to “turn around,” after officials ... More >>
New Zealand Protest Calls For Action On Climate Change
Saturday, 30 January 2021, 4:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 300 people gathered outside New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington on January 26 to demand government action to address catastrophic climate change. The rally was led by groups of high school students but also included ... More >>
Facebook Escalates Attack On Socialist Left
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 8:10 am | Socialist Equality Group
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US) 25 January 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/25/pers-j25.html Facebook is engaged in an escalating campaign of internet censorship targeting the socialist left. Entire Facebook pages are being taken down, and individual accounts ... More >>
Royal Commission Covers Up Police Dismissal Of Anti-Muslim Threats Prior To Christchurch Terror Attack
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 3:27 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and prevented his massacre of 51 people ... More >>
Protest Over Appalling Conditions In New Zealand Prison
Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 1:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 5 January 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/05/nzpr-j05.html On Sunday, following a tense six-day standoff, 16 prisoners involved in protesting appalling conditions at New Zealand’s Waikeria Prison surrendered to authorities. ... More >>
Housing Crisis Fuels Poverty And Inequality In New Zealand
Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 11:03 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 29 December 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/29/hous-d29.html For hundreds of thousands of families in New Zealand, the holiday period this year will be one of the hardest in living memory. Like other countries, the ... More >>
New Zealand’s Border Restrictions Leave Thousands Of Students Stranded
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 8:39 am | Socialist Equality Group
Thousands of international students, many of whom have spent tens of thousands of dollars to study in New Zealand, and have received study visas, have been unable to enter the country since it imposed draconian border restrictions in March. They ... More >>
Royal Commission Into New Zealand Terror Attack Whitewashes Government Agencies
Friday, 11 December 2020, 9:20 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters On Tuesday, New Zealand’s Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens ... More >>
New Zealand Housing Crisis Worsens Under Labour
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 1:58 pm | Socialist Equality Group
John Braddock In response to growing outrage over New Zealand’s spiralling housing crisis, the finance minister in the Labour-Green Party government, Grant Robertson, last month wrote to Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr, asking him to cool the market. ... More >>
On The NZ Government Denouncing China For Condemning Australian War Crimes
Sunday, 6 December 2020, 2:26 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Labour Party government has joined the Australian ruling elite’s efforts to whip up nationalist, anti-Chinese hysteria over a tweet condemning Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Zhao Lijian, deputy director of the Chinese Ministry of ... More >>
'New Zealand Inquiry Suppresses Evidence About Fascist Terror Attack'
Friday, 4 December 2020, 8:20 am | Socialist Equality Group
On November 26, the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack delivered its final report to the New Zealand government. Fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant carried out mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques, killing ... More >>
Migrants Protest In India Demanding Right To Return To New Zealand
Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 9:08 am | Socialist Equality Group
Hundreds of stranded migrant workers have protested in India in recent weeks, calling on New Zealand’s government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to allow them to return. More >>
New Zealand Government, Media Downplay Australian War Crimes In Afghanistan
Wednesday, 25 November 2020, 10:09 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 24 November 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/24/nzaf-n24.html An official report documenting war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan, including the killing of at least 39 civilians and prisoners, released on November ... More >>
10 Years After The Pike River Disaster: No Justice For Families
Saturday, 21 November 2020, 2:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
November 19 marked the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster. Twenty-nine miners died after a series of underground explosions in a mine located on the remote West Coast of the South Island. Their bodies have never been recovered. ... More >>
New Zealand Government Rejects Calls To Increase Welfare Payments
Thursday, 19 November 2020, 9:22 am | Socialist Equality Group
John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 18 November 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/nzla-n18.html In the first month since New Zealand’s October 17 election, the reconstituted Labour-Green Party government has shown its pro-business colours already, as it implements ... More >>
