投稿者: Charlotte Graham-McLay in Wellington
PM remembers ‘very human’ monarch who had ‘courage, compassion and humour’, but death is likely to reignite republican debate, experts sayQueen Elizabeth dies – latest updatesJacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, has remembered Queen Elizabeth …
The filters had prompted questions over the treatment of sacred cultural artefacts on tech platformsThe social media company that owns Snapchat has removed filters that applied images of sacred Māori tattoos to users’ faces, after the discovery of the …
Questions have been raised over laws governing school boards after Philip Arps nominated for a position at a multicultural Christchurch collegeA white nationalist convicted of what a judge called “in effect a hate crime” towards Muslims is standing for…
Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is ‘dealing with a terrorist problem’New Zealand’s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson said a UN report on the human rights abuses of Uyghurs includes recognition that C…
Names of the children, whose bodies were concealed in suitcases at an Auckland storage facility, have been suppressed at family’s requestPolice have identified the two children whose remains were discovered in suitcases bought from an Auckland storage …
Tributes paid to Dominic Abelen, the first New Zealander to die in the conflict, who was on leave without pay from the defence forceA New Zealand soldier who was on leave without pay from his country’s army when he was killed in Ukraine has become the …
PM Jacinda Ardern said caucus voted to expel Sharma over ‘repeated and calculated’ breaches of its rulesJacinda Ardern and her Labour colleagues have expelled MP Gaurav Sharma from caucus, the first time in more than a decade that the party has taken s…
Touring flood-hit region of Nelson, prime minister says country must do ‘all we can’ to deal with damaging events triggered by a warming climateNew Zealand’s flood- and slip-prone regions do not have the mechanisms in place to cope with rapid environme…
Jacinda Ardern says ‘every legal avenue’ was used to detain Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen until his refugee status was resolvedNew Zealand had tried for years to deport the terrorist who stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket on Friday before be…
Government claims largest rise in welfare payments in ‘more than a generation’ as it seeks to tackle pressing social problems as well as post-pandemic recovery New Zealand’s centre-left government has unveiled what it called the largest boost to welfar…
Veteran epidemiologist calls for review, and openness to adopting measures suggested by political rivals, now that voters have given PM a mandateJacinda Ardern won New Zealand’s election with a commanding majority, in part attributed to her handling of…
Labour’s historic win delivered Ardern a second term while voters punished politicians who embraced populism Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour prime minister who was returned to power for a second term with a commanding majority, has often been hail…
Number of physicians yearning for a move has increased substantially since the Covid-19 pandemic, recruitment firms sayWhen Dalilah Restrepo, then a New York-based physician, clicked on an email in 2018 asking if she was “looking for experiencing somet…
As far as polling booth drama goes, Aotearoa’s election has so far yielded none – but early voters are quite keen on the fragrant hand sanitiserThey arrive carrying their own pens. They stop for a dollop of pleasantly lemon-scented hand sanitiser as th…
As far as polling booth drama goes, Aotearoa’s election has so far yielded none – but early voters are quite keen on the fragrant hand sanitiserThey arrive carrying their own pens. They stop for a dollop of pleasantly lemon-scented hand sanitiser as th…