投稿者: Eva Corlett in Wellington
New Zealand has long fought to have indigenous remains held overseas returned – now it’s reckoning with its own colonial legacyIn 2009, Āwhina Twomey received a phone call from a friend and member of her Rangitāne o Wairau iwi (tribe), asking if she co…
Hundreds of people have joined the search for the killer whale’s pod, with rescuers hopeful his family will return for himAnimal rescue teams in New Zealand have begun trying to reunite a baby orca with its pod after it was found stranded near Wellingt…
Family members of those killed in the 2019 attack in New Zealand say they have been retraumatised by the script, which has been leakedThe leaked draft script of a controversial film depicting the Christchurch mosque shooting has been described as “wors…
The crucial fix is more housing supply, experts say, as well more money for Māori-led initiativesOnce a world leader in social housing, New Zealand now faces what the UN has called a “human rights crisis”. Although the government is pouring money in, t…
Average temperatures for the month were 2C higher than normal, with 24 separate locations hitting their own recordsNew Zealand has experienced its hottest June since records began more than 110 years ago, according to official climate data.Despite a po…
Country has just 10% of its wetlands left, endangering fragile ecosystems home to threatened speciesThousands of hectares of New Zealand’s wetlands have been lost in the past twenty years, leaving the country with just 10% of its pre-European wetland a…