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Pike River Mine Disaster Families Seek Answers About Unlawful Payment To Avoid Prosecution Of CEO
Friday, 8 July 2022, 3:51 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On July 2, an advertisement appeared in the Weekend Herald offering a $5,000 reward “for information leading to the identity of the ‘original source’ of the $3.41 million” payment distributed among the families of the 29 workers who died in the ... More >>
COVID Surges In New Zealand, Fuelled By New Variants
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 10:47 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 6 July 2022 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/06/xrbm-j06.html Cases of COVID-19 have risen sharply in New Zealand, as experts warn that a new wave of infections has begun, driven by the much more contagious BA.5 Omicron variant. ... More >>
NZ Emergency Doctor Describes Crisis Caused By Lifting COVID Public Health Measures
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Gary Payinda, an emergency doctor in Whangarei in Northland, one of the poorest areas of New Zealand, about the out-of-control spread of COVID-19 and the crisis in public hospitals. In ... More >>
New Zealand Government Maintains “let It Rip” Policy Despite Worsening Crisis In Hospitals
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 9:48 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters The disastrous situation in New Zealand’s hospitals continues to worsen, with ongoing deaths from COVID-19, growing hospitalisations for influenza and other winter illnesses, and a severe staffing shortage. On Tuesday, another 17 ... More >>
Meeting To Launch Book On New Zealand’s Pike River Mine Disaster Exposes 11-year Long Cover-up
Sunday, 12 June 2022, 6:13 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand held an online public meeting on June 4 to launch the new book, Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up, by leading SEG member Tom Peters, published by Mehring Books. The book contains 20 articles, interviews ... More >>
In White House Visit, New Zealand PM Joins Escalating US Offensive In The Pacific
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 11:09 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met with President Joe Biden at the White House on May 31, during a two-week trip to the United States. The leaders spoke for more than an hour, with Biden fulsomely ... More >>
Online Book Launch: Political Lessons Of The Pike River Disaster & Cover-up
Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 10:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand and the World Socialist Web Site will hold an online public meeting on Saturday, June 4, at 5:00 p.m. to launch the new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up , published by Mehring Books. ... More >>
In Major Attack On Free Speech, Migrants NZ Facebook Group Forced To Close
Sunday, 22 May 2022, 5:30 pm | Socialist Equality Group
In a blatant attack on freedom of speech, the popular Facebook group Migrants NZ, with a membership of more than 75,000 people, was recently forced to shut down after threats of legal action from the New Zealand Immigration Advisers Authority (IAA), ... More >>
NZ Experiences Deadliest Month Of The Pandemic
Thursday, 5 May 2022, 6:32 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s COVID-19 death toll has increased more than tenfold over the past two months, as a result of the Labour Party-led government’s decision to keep schools and non-essential businesses open and to remove most public health restrictions. ... More >>
Daily Blog Urges “Treason” Investigation Into New Zealand Trotskyists
Tuesday, 3 May 2022, 1:52 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 29 April 2022 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/29/ahsf-a29.html On April 16, Martyn Bradbury, editor of New Zealand’s Daily Blog, published an extraordinary attack on the Socialist Equality Group (SEG), the New Zealand supporters ... More >>
New Book: "Pike River: The Crime And Cover-Up" By Tom Peters
Sunday, 1 May 2022, 5:42 am | Socialist Equality Group
The new book "Pike River: The Crime and Cover-Up", published by Mehring Books, is available from Nationwide Book Distributors in New Zealand: https://www.nationwidebooks.co.nz/product/pike-river-the-crime-and-cover-up-9780646859064 The book is available in Australia and internationally from Mehring Books: https://mehring.com.au/product/pike-river-the-crime-and-cover-up/ ... More >>
New Zealand Labour Government Advances Pro-union, Anti-strike Law
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 10:01 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 25 April 2022 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/25/pfcx-a25.html Under conditions of a rapidly developing global economic crisis, attacks on living standards and escalating class struggles, New Zealand’s Labour-led government has ... More >>
New Zealand’s Leading Health Officials Resign As COVID Deaths Mount
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 6:33 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Three leading officials in New Zealand’s Ministry of Health have announced their resignations, in the middle of the country’s Omicron surge that has overwhelmed hospitals and is killing 10 to 20 people per day. On Wednesday, Director-General ... More >>
Three Years Since The Christchurch Terror Attack
Monday, 21 March 2022, 6:59 am | Socialist Equality Group
Wednesday marked three years since the March 15, 2019, terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant murdered 51 men, women and children at two mosques, and injured nearly 50 more. The attack, driven by racism and anti-Muslim ... More >>
New Zealand Police End Borehole Drilling At Pike River Mine After Finding More Human Remains
Sunday, 13 March 2022, 6:37 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On March 9, New Zealand police announced that they had taken images of two more bodies inside the abandoned Pike River coal mine. Twenty-nine workers were killed in a series of underground explosions which started on November 19, 2010. Their bodies ... More >>
New Zealand Court Bans Strike By 10,000 Health Workers
Monday, 7 March 2022, 12:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
In an extraordinary last-minute ruling on March 3, New Zealand’s Employment Court banned a 24-hour nationwide strike by 10,000 healthcare workers that was to take place the following day, and a second strike scheduled for March 18. The court ruled ... More >>
Coroner’s Inquiry Begins Into New Zealand’s Far-right Terror Attack
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 11:08 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters From February 22 to 24, the Christchurch Coroner’s Court held an initial hearing to determine the scope of its inquiry into the deaths of 51 people in the terrorist attack on March 15, 2019. The hearing was held remotely due to the ... More >>
On The Accelerating Omicron Surge
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 11:22 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters New Zealand’s COVID-19 surge continues, with case numbers rising sharply every day, placing immense pressure on the rundown healthcare system. Daily reported infections have nearly tripled in the past week, from 1,160 on February 16 to 3,297 ... More >>
New Zealand Rail Workers Highlight Unsafe Conditions As COVID-19 Surge Continues
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 6:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Omicron outbreak continues to surge. On Friday, 1,929 new cases were reported in the community, up from 1,573 on Thursday, bringing official active infections to 9,874. The real numbers are undoubtedly far higher, since few people ... More >>
New Zealand Right-wing, Pseudo-lefts Urge Government To “engage” With Far-right Protesters
Friday, 18 February 2022, 11:29 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 17 February 2022, Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/17/nzav-f17.html Hundreds of protesters opposed to vaccine mandates are in their 10th day occupying the lawn outside New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington. The so-called Freedom ... More >>
