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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 >>
UNICEF Condemns New Zealand’s Child Poverty As Inequality Grows
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 6:18 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The annual UNICEF Worlds of Influence Report Card, which ranks OECD and European Union countries in terms of child wellbeing, has placed New Zealand near the bottom of the 41 countries surveyed: 38th in terms of child mental health, 33rd in physical ... More >>
Auckland University Backs Away From Resuming Classes After Mass Student Opposition
Saturday, 19 September 2020, 2:47 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Auckland University has reversed its plan to get students on campus next Monday for the final two weeks of Semester 2. The U-turn follows mass opposition by students to a decision to operate classes of up to 300 people while the city remains under ... More >>
Greens In Crisis Over Private School Funding
Sunday, 6 September 2020, 2:12 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group (NZ) 5 September 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/05/shaw-s05.html A crisis erupted in the New Zealand Green Party late last month after co-leader James Shaw boasted that the Labour Party-led coalition government, which includes the Greens ... More >>
On The Sentencing Of The Christchurch Terrorist
Saturday, 29 August 2020, 5:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand: Christchurch terrorist jailed for life By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/28/sent-a28.html The fascist gunman responsible for mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques on March ... More >>
New Zealand Election Date Postponed As COVID-19 Cases Rise
Friday, 21 August 2020, 11:46 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group New Zealand’s Labour Prime Minister Prime Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that she had decided to shift the date of the forthcoming national elections from September 19 to October 17. The near month-long ... More >>
New Zealand Afghan Inquiry Declares SAS Killings Of Civilians Were “legal”
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 11:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group The official inquiry into the New Zealand Defence Force’s (NZDF) handling of a 2010 Special Air Services (SAS) raid in Afghanistan announced its findings last month. It confirmed that a child was killed, the NZDF ... More >>
Calls For Transparency From Inquiry Into New Zealand Terrorist Attack
Friday, 7 August 2020, 2:51 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group More than one year after the March 15, 2019 terrorist attack, an official inquiry into the mass shooting that killed 51 people and injured 49 in two Christchurch mosques has still not released any information ... More >>
NZ Suspends Extradition Treaty With Hong Kong
Saturday, 1 August 2020, 3:26 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 31 July 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/31/nzho-j31.html New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government has suspended the country’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong, saying it could no longer trust that the city’s justice ... More >>
