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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 >>
Paralysed woman faces life-threatening deportation
Saturday, 1 February 2020, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
In a case which highlights the increasing brutality of New Zealand’s immigration system, a paralysed Tongan woman and her family are due to be deported on January 31, despite doctors warning the mother of six could die. More >>
On the far-right soldier charged with disclosing intel
Monday, 27 January 2020, 8:54 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 25 January 2020, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/25/fasc-j25.html More >>
New Zealand Greens support military build-up
Friday, 24 January 2020, 10:05 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Green Party purports to have a pacifist foreign policy. Its founding charter lists “non-violent conflict resolution” as one of four guiding principles. Following the recent US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, an act ... More >>
Union shuts down bus drivers’ strike, scapegoats migrants
Tuesday, 7 January 2020, 10:32 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 6 January 2019, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/06/buss-j06.html More >>
White Island - will tourism companies be held accountable?
Thursday, 19 December 2019, 9:40 am | Socialist Equality Group
Sixteen people are confirmed dead and another two are unaccounted for, presumed dead, after the eruption of White Island/Whakaari volcano on December 9. Twenty-six people remain in New Zealand and Australian hospitals, all with severe burns requiring complex ... More >>
Growing poverty and inequality in New Zealand
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 9:31 am | Socialist Equality Group
Numerous reports point to worsening poverty and social inequality in New Zealand, more than two years after the formation of the Labour Party-led government, which pledged to end the former National Party government’s austerity regime, imposed ... More >>
On Samoa's deadly measles epidemic
Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 8:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 3 December 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/03/samo-d03.html More >>
NZ military’s unexploded bombs killed Afghan civilians
Saturday, 23 November 2019, 11:25 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s military was responsible for 17 civilian deaths and injuries, including the deaths of 7 children, caused by unexploded bombs left behind at firing ranges in Bamyan province, Afghanistan. The deaths, reported by Stuff Circuit on November ... More >>
Shane Jones echoes fascist gunman’s manifesto
Friday, 15 November 2019, 8:52 am | Socialist Equality Group
Shane Jones, a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour-led government, and a member of the right-wing NZ First Party, has used the government’s intensifying attacks on immigrants to echo the extreme-right positions espoused in the Christchurch ... More >>
New Zealand military to expand Pacific presence
Saturday, 9 November 2019, 11:11 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 8 November 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/08/paci-n08.html More >>
Labour-led government extends draconian anti-terror laws
Friday, 8 November 2019, 8:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
A Bill that gives authorities greater powers over so-called returning “foreign fighters” passed its first reading in the New Zealand parliament on October 24, after a last-minute deal between the Labour Party and the Greens. The two are partners ... More >>
Public meeting: Free Julian Assange!
Friday, 1 November 2019, 8:32 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Trump administration is seeking to extradite Julian Assange, an award-winning Australian journalist and citizen, and put him on trial on multiple charges of espionage. His only alleged crime? In 2010, WikiLeaks published documents leaked by Chelsea ... More >>
