投稿者: Tess McClure in Christchurch
Kiwi watchers have recorded the sound of the bird’s song at many sites that were silent just five years ago It’s a frigid, early-winter night, and across the forests and farmlands of Northland, people are crouching in the dark. They’ve timed this night…
Billionaire’s status was confirmed after report he had been granted entry to New Zealand during the pandemic despite closed bordersBillionaire and Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, and visited the country in the midst of Covid-19 …
Polls this week suggest the glacial speed of the Covid vaccine rollout is starting to affect Labour’s support, even as PM remains personally popularAn unbeatable leader in times of crisis, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s soaring popularity …
Polls this week suggest the glacial speed of the Covid vaccine rollout is starting to affect Labour’s support, even as PM remains personally popularAn unbeatable leader in times of crisis, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s soaring popularity …
Crisis has been marked by escalating rents, high rates of homelessness and substandard conditions New Zealand’s housing crisis has become a “massive human rights failure”, the Human Rights Commission has said, as it launches a national inquiry into the…
New Zealanders stranded abroad are growing increasingly frustrated with the country’s over-subscribed quarantine systemIn the age of coronavirus, New Zealand can seem like an idyll: a tightly sealed hermit kingdom, recently rated best place to survive …
Proposed legislation would make it an offence to perform conversion practices on anyone aged under 18New Zealand has introduced legislation to ban conversion practices, saying the practice is harmful and has “no place in modern New Zealand”.Conversion …
Report finds the country’s main grocers, Woolworths and Foodstuffs, make huge profits compared with their international counterpartsNew Zealand’s government will consider breaking up its supermarket duopoly to secure more affordable food prices for sho…
Jacinda Ardern pauses flights for eight weeks as her health chief says the spread in NSW was ‘clearly not under control’See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand is shutting down the quarantine-free travel bubble with Australia for two months, as the…
Chinese embassy hits back, calling criticism ‘groundless and irresponsible’ and urging Wellington to ‘abandon the cold war mentality’New Zealand has joined western allies in a stinging condemnation of China, accusing the government of responsibility fo…
Heavy rain caused slips, rivers to break their banks, and more than 2,000 residents to be evacuatedNew Zealand’s west coast has been hit by severe flooding, with a local state of emergency declared and thousands evacuated from their homes.The latest fl…
Polls show New Zealanders accept that life will be different in future and they still feel their country is headed in the right direction As countries look for a post-pandemic pathway back to “normal”, New Zealand is making no promises – and its popula…
Doctors say children haven’t been exposed to range of bugs due to lockdowns, distancing and sanitiser and their immune systems are sufferingNew Zealand hospitals are experiencing the payoff of “immunity debt” created by Covid-19 lockdowns, with wards f…
Country may place UK on no-fly list if cases explode, as PM says countries are making ‘different choices’ on deaths from coronavirusNew Zealand has dismissed suggestions it should follow in Britain’s footsteps to “live with” Covid-19, saying the level …
Louisa Wall’s comments mark a relatively rare departure from the government’s usually cautious statementsA member of New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party has denounced alleged human rights abuses by China, including illegal organ ha…