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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 >>
New Zealand Signs Defence Pacts With Japan, Fiji
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 10:41 am | Socialist Equality Group
Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity last week, New Zealand’s Labour-led government escalated its involvement in the US-led confrontation and preparations for war against China. On the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, held in Singapore ... More >>
Radio New Zealand Removes References To 2014 Ukraine Coup From Online Articles
Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 10:29 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 13 June 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/12/cvzr-j12.html In an extraordinary act of retroactive censorship, the state-owned broadcaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) announced that it has “corrected” 16 of its online articles ... More >>
NZEI pushes through sellout of New Zealand primary teachers
Sunday, 11 June 2023, 8:58 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On June 7, the New Zealand primary teachers’ union NZEI announced that a majority of its membership of about 30,000 teachers had voted to accept a below-inflation pay deal that the union stitched up with the Labour Party-led government. ... More >>
Protests Against University Staff Cuts In New Zealand
Thursday, 8 June 2023, 11:24 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group There is growing opposition to hundreds of job cuts that have been announced at universities across New Zealand. In response to declining enrolments and years of funding cuts by the Labour government, Otago ... More >>
New Zealand Primary Teachers’ Union Cancels Strike, Pushes New Sellout Offer
Friday, 2 June 2023, 11:59 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/01/sthg-j01.html On May 28, the primary teachers union NZEI cancelled a strike planned for May 31, which had been voted for by a majority of 30,000 teachers. The union bureaucracy ... More >>
Wellington Fire Survivor Describes Unsafe, Rundown Building
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 10:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Nearly a week after the horrific fire at the Loafers Lodge boarding house in New Zealand, the number of deaths has still not been confirmed. Yesterday, police said the toll was fewer than 10, with five bodies recovered so far from the ... More >>
New Zealand Budget Deepens Austerity
Saturday, 20 May 2023, 5:20 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Labour Party-Greens government announced its annual budget on Thursday, with Finance Minister Grant Robertson describing it as a “wellbeing budget” that strikes “a balance between supporting our people now with the pressure of cost ... More >>
Widespread Anger Over Anti-Immigrant “Dawn Raids”
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 12:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Labour-led government has been forced into damage control after revelations that a so-called “overstayer” from the Pacific Islands was detained in a dawn raid on his South Auckland home late last month. The brutal anti-immigrant ... More >>
Facebook Blocks Socialist Equality Group From Advertising
Sunday, 7 May 2023, 6:43 pm | Socialist Equality Group
In a thoroughly anti-democratic decision, Facebook has blocked the ability of the Socialist Equality Group (SEG) in New Zealand to run any ads. The SEG is fighting to build a section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) ... More >>
Lessons Of The Treaty Of Waitangi In New Zealand For The Australian Working Class
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 1:51 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/ioue-a28.html The Australian Labor government will hold a referendum later this year on amending the constitution to create a new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, a body ... More >>
Hipkins Rules Out Raising Tax On Super Rich
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 8:54 am | Socialist Equality Group
Last week, New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) released its findings from an investigation into the wealth of the country’s 311 richest individuals. The High Wealth Individuals Research Project, which looked at income and assets from ... More >>
Australia Eases Citizenship Requirements For New Zealanders As Countries Strengthen Military Ties
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 10:44 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 26 April 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/26/bzzc-a26.html Last weekend Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a policy change that will remove long-standing barriers for New Zealanders living in Australia ... More >>
Australian Defence Minister Visits New Zealand To Strengthen Anti-China Alliance
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 8:25 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Richard Marles, Australia’s defence minister and deputy prime minister, visited neighbouring New Zealand last week and met with his counterpart, New Zealand Defence Minister Andrew Little. In a press statement the Australian government ... More >>
New Zealand High School Teachers Hold Second One-day Strike
Friday, 31 March 2023, 9:51 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 30 March 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/30/jspf-m30.html About 20,000 secondary teachers at public schools in New Zealand held a nationwide strike on March 29. It followed a much larger one-day strike on March 16 involving ... More >>
Top US Official Visits New Zealand To Strengthen Ties Against China
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 11:28 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters Last weekend Kurt Campbell, national security coordinator in the Biden administration, visited New Zealand in a delegation that included US State and Defence Department officials and Coast Guard representatives. It was the first stop in a ... More >>
50,000 New Zealand Teachers Prepare For Nationwide Strike Against Pay Cuts
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 1:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 14 March 2023, Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/14/srsz-m14.html In New Zealand’s first major industrial action of 2023, 50,000 teachers at public schools will hold a nationwide one-day strike on March 16, after rejecting ... More >>
Anti-China Campaign Ramps Up In New Zealand
Monday, 13 March 2023, 11:07 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 11 March 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/11/rtmg-m11.html Last week the corporate media in the United States and Australia launched a coordinated barrage aimed at preparing their populations for war against China in the very near ... More >>
