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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 >>
Migrant Workers Demand Right To Return To Their Homes In New Zealand
Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 9:22 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 16 November 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/16/migr-n16.html Thousands of migrant workers who lived and worked in New Zealand have been trapped outside the country since the borders were closed in March. Unable to return to their ... More >>
New Zealand Government Promises Stronger US Ties After Biden Elected
Friday, 13 November 2020, 4:00 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 12 November 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/12/nzus-n12.html On Sunday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined her Australian counterpart and other members of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance in congratulating ... More >>
New Zealand Green Party Joins Right-Wing Labour Government
Wednesday, 4 November 2020, 6:40 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday announced the ministerial positions in her government, more than a fortnight after the Labour Party was returned to office in the national election with 49.1 percent of the votes. The delay in announcing ... More >>
Wealthy Areas Switched Support To Labour Party In New Zealand Election
Friday, 30 October 2020, 7:49 am | Socialist Equality Group
After being re-elected on October 17 with 49.1 percent of the votes, the New Zealand Labour, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, is the first party able to govern alone since 1996. An estimated 480,000 special votes (from overseas voters and late registrants), ... More >>
A Socialist Program Against The New Zealand Labour Government's Right-wing Agenda
Thursday, 29 October 2020, 1:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Public webinar: For a socialist program against the New Zealand Labour government's right-wing agenda More >>
NZ Markets, Business Welcome Labour's Election Victory
Saturday, 24 October 2020, 2:44 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s financial markets and business leaders quickly welcomed the Labour Party’s resounding victory in last Saturday’s general election. Labour took 49.1 percent of the votes, up from 36.9 percent in 2017. The conservative opposition National ... More >>
International Media Hails New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Re-election
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 11:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 21 October 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/21/nzel-o21.html The world’s corporate media has responded to the re-election of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government for a second term with a wave of adulation. ... More >>
Labour Party Strengthens Its Hold On Power In New Zealand Election
Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 12:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters The New Zealand Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, was re-elected to a second term in Saturday’s election, with 49.1 percent of the votes, up from 36.9 percent in the 2017 election. Some special votes are yet to be ... More >>
The Fight For Social Equality, Against The Pandemic And War, Is The Fight For World Socialism
Friday, 16 October 2020, 8:15 am | Socialist Equality Group
The October 17 election is being held amid an unprecedented global crisis in which the crucial task confronting the working class in New Zealand is to initiate the fight for an internationalist and socialist perspective aimed at the overthrow of ... More >>
New Zealand Green Party Postures Over Tax, Poverty
Thursday, 15 October 2020, 8:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
In the final week of campaigning for the New Zealand election on October 17, a squabble has erupted over the Green Party’s tax policy and its implications for a possible Labour-Greens coalition government. The Jacinda Ardern-led Labour Party is polling ... More >>
NZ Election Debates Reveal Bipartisan Support For Austerity And US Alliance
Sunday, 11 October 2020, 2:32 pm | Socialist Equality Group
With the New Zealand election due on October 17, the third of four debates between Labour Party Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and National Party leader Judith Collins took place in Christchurch on Tuesday evening. The event, organized by the Stuff ... More >>
Socialist Equality Group Election Meeting Saturday October 3rd
Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 3:39 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) will hold a public webinar, via Zoom, on Saturday October 3 at 4:00 pm NZ time to discuss the upcoming election, the breakdown of capitalism and the socialist and internationalist perspective that the working ... More >>
