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New Zealand economic forecast: “Things could turn ugly”
Friday, 30 August 2019, 9:58 am | Socialist Equality Group
Fears of a global recession, amid the US trade war with China, financial instability and market volatility, are growing around the world. In New Zealand, Westpac bank economists this month downgraded their 2020 annual GDP forecast from 3.1 percent ... More >>
Tongan government threatens to block access to Facebook
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 8:43 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 27 August 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/27/tong-a27.html The government of Tonga, an impoverished Pacific archipelago with 110,000 inhabitants, is threatening to block all access to Facebook. More >>
Rift widens between Australia and Pacific countries
Monday, 26 August 2019, 9:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 24 August 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/paci-a24.html More >>
Government exploits shooter's letter to censor prisoners
Friday, 23 August 2019, 5:26 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a press conference on August 19 that her government is likely to impose new restrictions on prisoners’ rights to send letters. She said the law could be changed in “weeks.” More >>
Outrage over babies taken by the state
Monday, 19 August 2019, 8:29 am | Socialist Equality Group
On July 30, several hundred people gathered outside parliament in Wellington for a protest titled “Hands Off Our Tamariki [children].” They delivered a petition with 17,000 signatures calling for the government to stop “stealing Maori children.” ... More >>
Maori nationalist parties exploit Ihumātao protest
Friday, 9 August 2019, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 8 August 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/08/ihum-a08.html In recent weeks the New Zealand media has given intense media coverage to an occupation led by Maori activists protesting against a proposed property development at a historic ... More >>
Free Assange and Manning - protest in Wellington on Sunday
Saturday, 13 July 2019, 1:59 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group is hosting a protest rally in Cuba Street, Wellington (at the intersection with Left Bank) on Sunday 14 July at 2:30pm to oppose the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and to demand ... More >>
Protest in Wellington against US brutality towards refugees
Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 10:16 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 8 July 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/08/nzus-j08.html More >>
NZ media promote far-right Christian party
Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 9:15 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 2 July 2019, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/02/dest-j02.html More >>
NZ Primary teacher union pushes through sellout pay deal
Thursday, 27 June 2019, 3:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) announced on Wednesday that a majority of roughly 30,000 primary teachers had voted in favour of a union-backed pay agreement with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party-NZ First-Greens coalition government. ... More >>
Protest on July 14: Free Julian Assange!
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 9:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) will hold a rally in Wellington, as part of the global campaign of the International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site to demand freedom for Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks ... More >>
Vote no to union sellout of New Zealand teachers!
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 12:21 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (SEG) calls on teachers to decisively reject the proposed settlement announced last Friday by the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s ... More >>
NZ government extends Iraq and Afghanistan troop deployments
Saturday, 15 June 2019, 11:33 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Labour Party-NZ First-Greens coalition government announced on June 10 that New Zealand’s deployment of about 100 soldiers to Iraq will be extended for another 12 months. The deployment of about a dozen troops to Afghanistan will last for at ... More >>
Teacher speaks out against conditions at impoverished school
Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 4:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The WSWS recently spoke to a teacher at a secondary school in a small New Zealand regional town. In his first year in the profession, the young teacher wished to remain anonymous to avoid repercussions for speaking out. But he described the severe crisis ... More >>
NZ secondary teachers’ union cancels industrial action
Saturday, 8 June 2019, 5:22 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 7 June 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/07/nzte-j07.html More >>
Budget gives billions to military, starves public services
Monday, 3 June 2019, 1:53 pm | Socialist Equality Group
"Wellbeing" budget gives billions to the military, starves public services More >>
Break from Labour and the unions! Unite the working class
Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 3:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
About 52,000 teachers and some principals held New Zealand’s biggest-ever education sector strike on Wednesday, involving every state-run school in the country. It is the first time primary and secondary teachers have held a joint strike. Mass protests ... More >>
NZ media to censor coverage of Christchurch terrorist trial
Saturday, 25 May 2019, 12:37 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s major media outlets—TVNZ, Stuff, Mediaworks, NZME and Radio NZ—signed an unprecedented agreement on May 1 to self-censor their coverage of the trial of Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 51 people in terrorist attacks on two ... More >>
New Zealand PM leads global Internet censorship campaign
Sunday, 19 May 2019, 3:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The so-called “ Christchurch Call ” summit in Paris on Wednesday, led by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron, marked a significant escalation of the drive by governments throughout the world to censor ... More >>
Government’s promises to combat child poverty exposed
Friday, 17 May 2019, 11:53 am | Socialist Equality Group
Statistics released last month point to growing child poverty and deepening social inequality under the Labour-NZ First-Greens coalition government, a right-wing formation installed in October 2017. More >>
