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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 >>
New Zealand defence chief admits Afghan civilian death
Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 9:53 am | Socialist Equality Group
After years of stonewalling and denials, New Zealand’s Chief of Defence has accepted that a three-year-old girl was likely killed during a 2010 New Zealand Special Forces (SAS) raid in Afghanistan. More >>
On the SkyCity Convention Centre fire
Friday, 25 October 2019, 9:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
Firefighters this morning brought a major fire under control at the construction site for Auckland’s SkyCity Convention Centre, one of the city’s largest and most expensive building projects. The centre’s unfinished roof burst into flames ... More >>
On the Ardern government's class-based immigration
Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 8:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
On October 7, New Zealand’s Labour Party-led coalition government announced draconian class-based restrictions on immigration. From February 2020, the government will reopen the Parent Category visa nearly four years after the previous National Party ... More >>
Inquiry whitewashes Kiribati government over ferry disaster
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 10:04 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 21 October 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/21/kiri-o21.html More >>
New Zealand housing crisis worsens under Labour government
Thursday, 17 October 2019, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Nearly two years into its term in office, and ten months after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared that 2019 would be her Labour Party-led government’s “year of delivery,” one of New Zealand’s major social issues—housing—is embroiled ... More >>
Free Julian Assange! Protest in Wellington
Wednesday, 9 October 2019, 12:29 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Free Assange NZ, supported by the Socialist Equality Group, is holding a protest in Wellington this Friday October 11 at 1pm, to demand freedom for Julian Assange. More >>
Unexplained death at university hall of residence
Saturday, 5 October 2019, 12:08 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 3 October 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/03/nzcu-o03.html More >>
Ardern promotes internet censorship at UN
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 9:46 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used her visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly to accelerate global efforts to censor the internet. Her government is playing a leading role in exploiting the March 15 Christchurch terrorist ... More >>
170,000 join climate change protests in New Zealand
Sunday, 29 September 2019, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
An estimated 170,000 people joined protests across New Zealand yesterday in the country’s third Climate Strike this year. The turnout represents 3.5 percent of the country’s population. It followed global protests over the past week which ... More >>
On the attacks on National's relations with China
Monday, 16 September 2019, 8:06 am | Socialist Equality Group
The long-running campaign against purported Chinese “interference” in New Zealand’s political system intensified in the past week following a five-day visit to Beijing by opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges. More >>
Official report exposes dire conditions in NZ prisons
Sunday, 8 September 2019, 12:02 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand government’s Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier recently released a damning report on conditions at Ngawha Prison, in the impoverished and socially-divided Northland region, which has a significant inmate population of indigenous Maori. More >>
Crisis erupts in New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Friday, 6 September 2019, 8:40 am | Socialist Equality Group
One year after imposing a sellout agreement on 30,000 nurses and healthcare assistants, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), the country’s third-largest union, is embroiled in factional conflict. More >>
