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Why The Working Class Turned Against Labour In New Zealand’s Election
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 6:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Following the Labour Party government’s historic defeat in New Zealand’s October 14 election, the corporate media quickly declared that voters had “moved sharply to the right” (Washington Post) delivering what the UK Guardian called “a surge ... More >>
Landslide Defeat For Labour In New Zealand Election
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 3:04 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 16 October 2023 Original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/16/arcd-o16.html New Zealand’s Labour Party government suffered an historic defeat in Saturday’s election. According to preliminary results, Labour’s support virtually halved from ... More >>
Capitalist Parties Promise Sweeping Attacks On Working Class In New Zealand Election
Sunday, 8 October 2023, 6:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
With the voting period for New Zealand’s October 14 election now open, campaigning has entered its final critical phase. The political establishment is facing a historic crisis, fuelled by intensifying geo-strategic tensions and escalating war threats, ... More >>
Next Government Could Include Right-wing Nationalist NZ First
Sunday, 1 October 2023, 7:50 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On Monday, opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon—widely expected to become New Zealand’s prime minister after the October 14 election—announced that he could form a coalition government with both the far-right ACT Party and the ... More >>
New Zealand Election Debate Points To Bipartisan Agenda Of Austerity And War
Friday, 22 September 2023, 1:33 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 21 September 2023 Original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/21/hexy-s21.html The first televised debate of the New Zealand election campaign, between incumbent Labour Party Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and opposition National Party leader Christopher ... More >>
Socialist Equality Group Statement On The 2023 Election
Monday, 18 September 2023, 8:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
Oppose all capitalist parties in the New Zealand election! Fight against war and for world socialism! Build the Socialist Equality Group! Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/xdzo-s15.html The New Zealand election ... More >>
New Zealand Senior Doctors Hold Nationwide Strike
Friday, 8 September 2023, 10:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock A nationwide strike of senior doctors and dentists working in New Zealand’s public hospitals went ahead on September 5 after failed mediation between Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand and the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
The Rise Of The Far-Right ACT Party
Sunday, 27 August 2023, 11:08 am | Socialist Equality Group
As New Zealand approaches an election on October 14, the ruling Labour Party is polling below 30 percent and there are growing predictions that it will be defeated by the right-wing opposition National Party and its ally, the far-right ACT Party. ... More >>
The Right-wing Record Of The New Zealand Māori Party
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 12:13 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock The New Zealand ruling elite is heading towards a crisis election on October 14, with the two major parties that have buttressed capitalism for almost a century, Labour and National, deeply unpopular. Labour has crashed to its worst ... More >>
New Zealand Labour Government Scraps Remaining COVID Public Health Measures
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 11:34 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters On Monday, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced that the government was ending the requirement for people with COVID-19 to isolate at home for seven days, and to wear masks in hospitals and other healthcare settings. ... More >>
New Zealand Intelligence Report Targets China Over “Foreign Interference”
Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 12:20 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 14 August 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/14/evyc-a14.html New Zealand’s spy agency, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), has published its first unclassified national threat assessment. It alleges that amid rising tensions ... More >>
New Zealand Defence Policy Review Targets China
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 9:26 am | Socialist Equality Group
Last Friday the Labour-led government in New Zealand released two policy documents from its ongoing Defence Policy Review—the Future Force Design Principles and a Defence Policy Strategy Statement—as well as a new National Security Strategy. ... More >>
Albanese, Blinken Visit New Zealand To Boost Anti-China Campaign In Pacific
Saturday, 29 July 2023, 6:36 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week made separate but coinciding visits to New Zealand for talks with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and other government officials. The ostensible reason for ... More >>
Three Dead, 10 Injured In New Zealand Mass Shooting
Sunday, 23 July 2023, 7:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
A horrific mass shooting on July 20 in a busy part of central Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, left three people dead and 10 injured. Around 7:22 a.m., police received reports of gunshots at the Deloitte office tower on Queen Street, which was undergoing ... More >>
New Zealand Prime Minister Hipkins “Unwavering” In Support Of US-NATO War In Ukraine
Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 11:03 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 17 July 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/17/xeyc-j17.html At the conclusion of the NATO summit in Vilnius last week, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins declared: “We will stand with Ukraine until this unjust war ends… ... More >>
Radio New Zealand “Editorial Audit” Expands Censorship Net
Thursday, 13 July 2023, 12:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 10 July 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/10/lels-j10.html On 9 June, the state-owned broadcaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) advised of supposed “inappropriate editing” of several wire service stories relating to the war in ... More >>
New Zealand Post To Sack 750 Workers
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 10:38 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock and Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 5 July 2023 NZ Post announced on June 27 that it plans to sack at least 750 staff, claiming it is a necessary response to the historic decline in mail volumes. The announcement follows the closure of ... More >>
New Zealand PM Visits China Amid Growing War Tensions
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 2:28 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Last week, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins carried out a six-day visit to China, aimed at strengthening trade and economic ties. He was accompanied by Trade Minister Damien O’Connor, Tourism Minister Peeni Henare and 29 business ... More >>
New Zealand Factors Ethnicity In Prioritising Surgery Waiting Lists
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 3:05 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock and Tom Peters A new algorithm used in New Zealand’s hospitals to manage waiting lists for non-urgent surgery includes ethnicity as one of five factors determining which patients take priority. Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand ... More >>
Police Locate More Bodies In New Zealand’s Pike River Mine
Monday, 26 June 2023, 3:41 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Last Friday, New Zealand Police Superintendent Darryl Sweeney announced that investigators had located the remains of “two, maybe three” of the workers who died in the Pike River coal mine disaster nearly 13 years ... More >>
