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100 Christian Leaders Hand Over Open Letter To Mark Ash Wednesday; Grant Emergency Humanitarian Visas For Palestinians

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 10:23 pm | Aotearoa Christians for Peace in Palestine

The letter has been signed by leaders from Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Quaker, non-denominational and Methodist movements, and leaders from organisations and groups such as Caritas, Student Christian Movements and Te Mīhana Māori. More >>

America Or Europe? Why Trump’s Ukraine U-turn Is A Fork In The Road For New Zealand

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 6:07 pm | The Conversation

New Zealand foreign policy has long sought to balance various alliances with a commitment to the rules-based international order. It now faces its greatest test in decades. More >>

“Just The Tip Of The Iceberg” - Warns CultureShift NZ After The Release Of The Manurewa Marae Investigation Report

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 5:22 pm | CultureShiftNZ

The public deserves a full-scale independent review of whistleblower cases across government agencies. This isn’t about isolated failures; it’s about a culture of negligence that enables misconduct at the highest levels, Allan Halse, Director More >>

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NZ Navy May Need To Work With Australia To Grow Capability - Experts

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 3:19 pm | RNZ

New Zealand's navy has a critical need for equipment and staffing, defence experts are warning. More >>

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr Resigns

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 2:49 pm | Taxpayers' Union

Orr’s work caused the single worst economic downturn in New Zealand in over three decades. He was far too slow to react as inflation increased, and far too slow to lower interest rates as inflation fell. More >>

RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr Resigns

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 1:52 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Mr Orr, who was first appointed as Governor in March 2018, says it has been a privilege to lead an institution that plays a critical role in the economic wellbeing and prosperity of all New Zealanders. Deputy Governor Christian Hawkesby will be Acting Governor ... More >>

72% Of People Think The Government Should Be Building State Housing At Scale Ahead Of Infrastructure Summit

Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 8:54 am | Public Housing Futures

This poll shows that there is a clear public mandate across the political spectrum for the government to build state housing, and to build state housing at scale. More >>

Government's iRex Ferry Cancellation Costed At $300 Million - For Now

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 8:20 pm | RNZ

Documents reveal how much the government set aside after ministers ended a contract to build two new Interislanders. More >>

Use Of Aotearoa In House 'Not A Matter Of Order', Brownlee Tells MPs

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 8:17 pm | RNZ

Parliament's Speaker has told MPs he does not expect to hear any more points of order over the use of the word Aotearoa. More >>

Christopher Luxon On School Lunches: 'Go Make A Marmite Sandwich'

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 8:03 pm | RNZ

Christopher Luxon says he'd rather parents take responsibility for feeding their children than the government. More >>

Call For Suffrage Day To Become A National Public Holiday

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 3:42 pm | Women's Rights Party

The petition has been initiated by the Women’s Rights Party and Life Member Sandi Hall, a former leader of the New Zealand Women’s Political Party women, a feminist political party founded in 1982 that contested the 1984 snap election. More >>

Resign, Simon Watts!

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 1:30 pm | Climate Liberation Aotearoa

The government’s continued support for anti-climate policies further entrenches this kind of environmental destruction. It is a criminal coalition between policymakers and industry that locks out the public and sets us up to a fate unimaginably bad. More >>

Congestion Charging Must Be In Auckland’s Future

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 1:14 pm | Infrastructure New Zealand

Congestion charging can both manage demand on the city’s roading network and help pay for the provision of Auckland’s transport infrastructure into the future. More >>

Police Warn Te Pāti Māori Over Financial Audit Delay

Monday, 3 March 2025, 9:14 pm | RNZ

The party filed an incomplete 2023 statement in mid-December, well after the July deadline. More >>

Lack Of Transparency Over $29m MethaneSAT Government Satellite, Astronomers Say

Monday, 3 March 2025, 9:11 pm | RNZ

The space agency in charge has refused to say why staff and students at Auckland University are not driving the MethaneSAT satellite by now, as promised. More >>

New Zealand's Part In US Moves Provoking China

Monday, 3 March 2025, 9:09 pm | RNZ

Analysis: China is being called 'provocative' after live firing in the Tasman, but New Zealand has done the same. More >>

Cuts To Frontline Health Services Exposed By Health Workers Survey

Monday, 3 March 2025, 8:07 am | PSA

Make no mistake this report makes clear that health is in crisis and Government policies are to blame. We now have stark evidence from health workers who know the system best that funding cuts and the hiring freeze are having a direct impact on services. More >>

Hyundai In Running To Build Two New Cook Strait Ferries

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 8:50 pm | RNZ

Peters said the Korean ship builder was open to considering bidding to build two new smaller ferries for the Cook Strait. More >>

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's Increasing Strength In Foreign Policy, Deficiency In Domestic

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 8:48 pm | RNZ

Analysis: The challenge facing him was convincing Vietnam of the ways it does actually need us, and so in that metric, striking such a deal is a success. More >>

New Zealand Reaffirms Support For Ukraine After Disastrous White House Meeting

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 8:40 pm | RNZ

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the way to peace is for Russia to end its "three-year long illegal and immoral war of aggression". More >>

MPs Instructed To Remove Four Chinese Apps From Parliamentary Devices

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 8:35 pm | RNZ

Parliamentary Service chief executive Rafael Gonzalez-Montero said the commission made the decision after considering a range of perspectives. More >>

New Zealand Needs To 'Step Up' On Defence Spending, Winston Peters Says

Saturday, 1 March 2025, 8:09 pm | RNZ

Winston Peters says our trading partners will judge us if NZ doesn't "step-up" and play its role by increasing defence spending. More >>

Prime Minister Expects David Seymour To Give School Lunch Problems His 'Full Attention'

Saturday, 1 March 2025, 8:07 pm | RNZ

The Prime Minister says there have been teething problems with the new roll-out and it is David Seymour's job to fix them. More >>

Defending Cultural Expression And Palestinian Identity

Saturday, 1 March 2025, 5:16 am | Palestine Forum of New Zealand

Palestinian cultural expression should be treated with the same respect as any other, without fear or scrutiny. The keffiyeh is not a political threat - it is a symbol of history, survival, and belonging. More >>

Protect NZ's GE Free Advantage: Withdraw The Gene Technology Bill

Friday, 28 February 2025, 9:38 pm | GE Free NZ

"This is an overwhelmingly significant public response considering the submission period was over Christmas and the New Year,” said Claire Bleakley, president of GE Free NZ "Especially as the deadline of 17 February allowed only 4 weeks, after ... More >>

Government Struggles With Lack Of Visibility Of Big Projects Ahead Of Budget 2025

Friday, 28 February 2025, 5:11 pm | RNZ

There's $140 billion of projects being planned or built, but Treasury says it's "not sure" a key number is right. More >>

Rawiri Waititi Performs At Te Matatini, Says Haka Is Form Of 'Political Expression'

Friday, 28 February 2025, 5:04 pm | RNZ

"Māori are very political people," Rawiri Waititi who performed at Te Matatini with new group Te Taumata o Apanui, said. More >>

Violent Crime Victimisation Rates Steady, Not Dropping, Data Shows

Friday, 28 February 2025, 4:51 pm | RNZ

Government ministers are claiming it as a win, but what does new official data tell us? More >>

Chinese Navy Live-Fire Drills Saga Marks Failure In China-NZ Relationship - Peters

Thursday, 27 February 2025, 8:57 pm | RNZ

Live-fire naval exercises in the Tasman sea dominated talks between Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his counterpart. More >>

Disability Survey Data Highlights Inequities That Could Last Generations

Thursday, 27 February 2025, 3:13 pm | IHC New Zealand

IHC New Zealand Director of Advocacy Tania Thomas says data from Stats NZ’s Household Disability Survey, collected following the 2023 Census, paints a concerning picture of the everyday challenges faced by disabled people. More >>

Greenpeace Obtains Coordinates Of Coral Destruction NZ Government Refused To Reveal

Thursday, 27 February 2025, 1:53 pm | Greenpeace

Greenpeace’s Ellie Hooper is calling the New Zealand government’s refusal to share the coordinates "ludicrous" and "a blatant example of the Luxon led government running interference for the fishing industry." More >>

Four-year Term Positive For Infrastructure Development

Thursday, 27 February 2025, 12:35 pm | Infrastructure New Zealand

Infrastructure is a long-term game and there is little doubt that shifting to a four-year term could help provide greater political certainty to the Crown’s infrastructure planning and delivery. More >>

NZDF And PSA Dispute Settled

Thursday, 27 February 2025, 10:14 am | PSA

This week PSA members, who are civilian workers, voted to ratify a new collective agreement which includes pay increases for every union member covered by the Collective Agreement. More >>

Acting Prime Minister David Seymour Calls China Flotilla A 'Tactical Error'

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 8:47 pm | RNZ

Acting Prime Minister David Seymour took questions from the media on Wednesday afternoon. More >>

Climate Liberation Aotearoa Takes Action At Larnach Castle Ōtepoti Dunedin

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 4:56 pm | Climate Liberation Aotearoa

One cruise ship can produce as much cancer causing fine particulate matter as one million cars and a 3,000 plus passenger cruise ship on a ten day cruise emits enough CO2 to kill a person before 2100 due to climate related causes. More >>

Prime Minister Uninformed To Suggest Nurses Replace Doctors - NZNO

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

NZNO’s College of Primary Health Care Nurses chair Tracey Morgan says the Prime Minister’s comments shows a complete lack of understanding about how frontline primary and community care best operate. More >>

Citizen’s Arrest Powers Will Put Workers In Harm's Way

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 2:41 pm | NZCTU

Setting the expectation that workers on the shopfloor will be required to prevent shoplifting and retail crime will only increase the risk of violence and undermines workers’ right to a safe and healthy workplace. More >>

Minister Goldsmith: Retail Workers Are Not Your Free Cops

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 10:52 am | First Union

Retail workers are already systematically underpaid, concerned about their futures, and worried about going to work against a backdrop of increasing violence and abuse in their workplaces. More >>

New Zealand Government Whips Up Hysteria Over Chinese Naval Exercise In Tasman Sea

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 8:19 am | Socialist Equality Group

The furore is part of the efforts to justify New Zealand’s integration into US-led war plans against China, which is the main target of US imperialism as it seeks to shore up its global domination. More >>

Winston Peters Needs To Address Cook Islands-China Deal During Meeting - Helen Clark

Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 8:16 pm | RNZ

The Foreign Minister needs to restate the relationship with the Cook Islands during talks with his Chinese counterpart, former prime minister Helen Clark says. More >>

Covid-19 Inquiry Executive Director And Assisting Counsel Resign

Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 8:08 pm | RNZ

The executive director of the Covid-19 inquiry and two lawyers assisting the second phase of the inquiry have resigned. More >>

Peace Diplomacy Must Lead In Addressing Chinese Warships In Tasman Sea

Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 12:25 pm | Peace Action Wellington

“The Chinese state is an authoritarian nightmare with an aggressive plan for military spending and zero regard for human rights. The experiences in Hong Kong and Xinjiang should be evidence for how much respect China has for basic rights and freedoms”, ... More >>

Prime Minister Says He Won't Comment On Details Of Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly's Resignation

Monday, 24 February 2025, 8:53 pm | RNZ

Senior National MP Andrew Bayly has quit his ministerial roles after what he says was an "animated discussion" that went "too far" and ended with him putting a hand on a staffer. More >>

Chinese Ships In The Tasman 'A Gift From Beijing' For Defence Spending - Expert

Monday, 24 February 2025, 8:49 pm | RNZ

The military activity is likely to have a strong effect on public opinion, a defence expert says. More >>

Academics’ Fury Over Science Funding Process Overblown

Monday, 24 February 2025, 2:47 pm | Taxpayers' Union

“It is clear the Minister's decision to cut Marsden funding for humanities and social sciences, along with requiring 50 percent of grants to demonstrate economic benefit, is a win for taxpayers." More >>

Mining Drill Rig Challenged By Community

Monday, 24 February 2025, 2:32 pm | Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki

Oceana Gold are drilling an exploratory hole on private land at Te Rerenga, above the Whangapoua harbour, behind Matarangi. More >>

No 'Official Record' Of School Lunch Feedback

Sunday, 23 February 2025, 7:12 pm | RNZ

RNZ set out to find out more about how school lunch feedback is tracked. More >>

Expert Says China's Military Exercise In Tasman Sea Serves As 'Serious Threat'

Sunday, 23 February 2025, 7:09 pm | RNZ

Canterbury University's Anne-Marie Brady said New Zealand must boost defence spending to protect the region. More >>

A Rare Glimpse Into The Intelligence Community

Sunday, 23 February 2025, 7:04 pm | RNZ

This week, MPs and the public got a rare glimpse behind the curtain of New Zealand's spy agencies. More >>

CPAG Urges Government To Reverse 'Funded To Fail' School Lunch Cuts

Sunday, 23 February 2025, 6:38 pm | Child Poverty Action Group

CPAG Executive Officer Sarita Divis said CPAG was disappointed the Government’s Budget policy statement in December - which gives an early indication about priorities in May’s Budget - had no mention of child poverty. More >>

Anti-Bases Campaign Statement Of Solidarity On February 23 Global Day Of Action To Close Bases

Sunday, 23 February 2025, 3:05 pm | Anti Bases Campaign

Develop a genuinely independent foreign policy. More >>

Beyond The Crisis: An Anarcho-Communist Response To Aotearoa’s State OfThe Nation 2025

Sunday, 23 February 2025, 3:02 pm | Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

One of the most damning revelations in the report is the rise of food insecurity in Aotearoa, particularly among families with children. Over 400,000 people now require welfare support, the highest level since the 1990s, and half of all Pacific children ... More >>