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Pandemic Intensifies Social Crisis In New Zealand
Sunday, 31 May 2020, 8:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand government’s Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC) reported on Thursday that a survey of 3,000 people, conducted in April, found 34 percent of households were in “financial difficulty.” A further 40 percent were “at risk ... More >>
Unemployment Soars In New Zealand
Sunday, 17 May 2020, 5:32 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand’s ruling elite is responding to the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic with job cuts, wage reductions and other attacks on the working class Announcing the Labour Party-led government’s annual budget ... More >>
New Zealand Sees Increase In Racist Anti-Chinese Attacks
Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 11:06 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand has seen an increase in racist attacks against Asian and Chinese people. Stuff reported on May 4 that in just five weeks the Human Rights Commission had received 86 reports of race-related incidents linked to the coronavirus ... More >>
New Zealand Nurses’ Union Embroiled In Factional Crisis
Monday, 11 May 2020, 8:01 am | Socialist Equality Group
Simmering factional warfare inside the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), the largest health sector trade union, has come to a head with the sudden resignation of its elected president, Grant Brookes, and three of his supporters from the governing ... More >>
New Zealand Government Exploits Pandemic To Boost Police And Military Powers
Friday, 8 May 2020, 10:14 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government, like others throughout the world, is exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to test anti-democratic measures, including an extension of police and military powers. More >>
On The Moves To End The Lockdown
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 9:12 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that the government will ease its COVID-19 lockdown measures next Tuesday, April 28, five days later than originally planned, but sooner than some experts had advised. More >>
New Zealand Businesses, Media Call For Lifting Of Lockdown Measures
Monday, 20 April 2020, 7:27 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock On April 14, nearly three weeks into a month-long nationwide lockdown to combat COVID-19, the New Zealand Treasury painted a dire picture of the country’s economic prospects. The announcement preceded the International Monetary Fund forecast ... More >>
Media Glorifies New Zealand Government’s Pro-business Response To The Pandemic
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 8:38 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters The corporate media internationally has hailed the response of the Labour Party-led government in New Zealand to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Washington Post article on April 7 declared that the country “isn’t just flattening the ... More >>
New Zealand Workers Speak Out On Unsafe Conditions, Wage Cuts
Friday, 3 April 2020, 8:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Workers in New Zealand remain deeply concerned about being exposed to the potentially deadly COVID-19 coronavirus. The Labour Party-led government’s four-week shutdown of schools and non-essential businesses began on March 26 in an ... More >>
Workers Remain At Risk During NZ's Lockdown
Sunday, 29 March 2020, 12:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s total confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases reached 451 on March 28, an almost nine-fold increase in seven days. Twelve people are in hospital and two are in intensive care. No deaths have been reported, to this point. Most cases ... More >>
Pacific Islands Nations Threatened With Disaster By Coronavirus
Friday, 20 March 2020, 9:09 am | Socialist Equality Group
The remote micro-states and island chains across the Pacific face a terrifying situation due to the global coronavirus pandemic. While geographically isolated, their impoverished, neo-colonial status, lack of health facilities and dependency on tourism make them ... More >>
New Zealand Government Predicts COVID-19 Recession, Gives Billions To Business
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 10:41 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group On Tuesday, New Zealand finance minister Grant Robertson announced a $12.1 billion stimulus package, equal to 4 percent of gross domestic product, in response to the rapidly worsening global economic crisis ... More >>
How Profit-gouging And Government Deregulation Created New Zealand’s Home-building Catastrophe
Saturday, 14 March 2020, 1:21 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 12 March 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/12/rott-m12.html Rottenomics: The Story of New Zealand’s Leaky Buildings Disaster by Peter Dyer (Bateman Books, 2019) New Zealand’s housing problems were recently described as ... More >>
New Zealand PM Ardern Boosts Relations On Fiji Visit
Monday, 9 March 2020, 9:12 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spent three days in Fiji from February 24–27, the first visit by a NZ leader since 2016, and only the second since the 2006 military coup that installed Frank Bainimarama, Fiji’s current prime minister. ... More >>
Late New Zealand PM Mike Moore Lauded As A “working-class Hero”
Friday, 6 March 2020, 9:21 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group Mike Moore, a leading figure in New Zealand’s 1984–90 Labour government, which initiated the “pro-market” assault on jobs, living standards and the social rights of the working class, died on February 2, ... More >>
Coronavirus Accelerates Job Cutting In New Zealand
Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 9:43 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Chris Ross and Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 2 March 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/02/nzvi-m02.html As world economic growth falls to its lowest level since the 2008 global financial crisis, the wages, jobs ... More >>
New Zealand’s Waitangi Day Promotes Nationalism And Militarism
Friday, 14 February 2020, 9:06 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Every year, New Zealand’s national day attracts wall-to-wall media coverage of events at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in Northland, where government ministers, other political leaders, tribal leaders and religious figures give speeches, ... More >>
Thousands Of Students Affected By New Zealand’s Anti-Chinese Travel Ban
Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 9:11 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 11 February 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/11/crnv-f11.html The New Zealand government’s ban on anyone entering the country from China, apart from NZ citizens and residents, has provoked shock and anxiety among immigrants, ... More >>
Rally to free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
Tuesday, 11 February 2020, 8:25 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (SEG) has called a demonstration in Wellington on Sunday, February 23 to demand the immediate and unconditional release from imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning. More >>
The right-wing record of Jacinda Ardern’s government
Tuesday, 4 February 2020, 11:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
The right-wing record of Jacinda Ardern’s government in New Zealand By the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) 3 February 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/03/arde-f03.html New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on January 28 that the next election ... More >>
