投稿者: Tess McClure in Christchurch
As country reels from Auckland attack, leader of mosque targeted in Christchurch atrocity says the terrorist is ‘not from us’ New Zealand has responded to its first terror attack by an Islamic state-inspired extremist with an outpouring of support fro…
PM Jacinda Ardern says country is starting to see ‘positive trends’ in the numbers, with fewer cases infectious in the communitySee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has reported 49 new cases of Covid-19 in the community – continuing an overall d…
Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said virus’ reproduction rate remained under one, meaning cases would continue to dropNew cases of Covid-19 have continued to drop in New Zealand, in a promising early indication that the country’s strict…
Carmel Sepuloni said she would ‘never buy the odd shaped carrot pack again’ after ‘almost wrestling’ with son over vegetableA New Zealand cabinet minister has become the latest public figure to be embarrassed by an unfortunate incident involving a vide…
A lawyer for the Afghans says legal proceedings are a last resort, and that Immigration New Zealand have been ‘completely flat-footed’In the video, New Zealand flags are burning. Their edges curl and the stars of the southern cross turn black, crumblin…
With a nationwide lockdown and some of the world’s strictest restrictions, Jacinda Ardern is counting on her people’s goodwill againIn locked-down New Zealand, life orbits around the 1pm briefing. As the home-bound nation digests its lunch, the directo…
A group of almost 40 interpreters and others who worked with the NZDF are still trapped in AfghanistanKabul airport attack: latest newsAfghan interpreters left behind after New Zealand ceased its mercy flights are shocked and terrified at being strande…
Covid response minister says it would be a waste to stop aiming for elimination after plan was questioned by foreign mediaSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s Covid response minister says the country will not “throw in the towel” with its elim…
New Zealanders, visa holders and others are struggling to battle through chaotic crowds and red tape to reach planes to carry them homeAs New Zealand begins to evacuate people from Afghanistan, those awaiting evacuation say they are struggling to reach…
Jacinda Ardern has led a global Covid success story, but other countries have come unstuck when facing the Delta variantSee all our coronavirus coverageAs epidemiologist Michael Baker scrolled through a growing list of New Zealand’s Covid-exposed locat…
‘I stood with you .. now, I need to be taken care of,’ says Nowroz Ali, amid calls for Jacinda Ardern to do more to help desperate refugees In hiding with his family in Kabul, Nowroz Ali says he is consumed by fear. He can hear gunfire in the darknes…
Asked what she would say to people who questioned the need for a level 4 lockdown, the prime minister responded with one word: ‘Australia’See all our coronavirus coverageTo overseas eyes, going into national lockdown over a single case should have been…
Officials have not yet established a link between the case, detected in Auckland, and the border or managed isolation facilitiesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has a new case of Covid-19 transmission in the community, Ministry of Health off…
Jacinda Ardern said New Zealand would also attempt to evacuate Afghan nationals who worked with the countryNew Zealand is racing to get its remaining citizens out of Afghanistan, and will deploy troops to assist with their evacuation after the Taliban …
A famously snake-free country, Aotearoa and its beaches are wrangling with the sporadic arrival of yellow-bellied sea snakesIt looked like a rope or a question mark – a black scribble on the sand. The creature had washed up on a Northland beach in May …