激動の東アジアニュースを各国のメディアからお伝えします
Some of New Zealand’s anti-vaxxers say that the Covid vaccine is a form of 21st-century colonialism – it’s notOne thing that characterises the typical anti-vaxxer, other than being wrong, is their short attention span.In the space of a single conversat…
Read MoreLow Covid vaccination rates among Māori reflect practical barriers – but they also have good reason to distrust the governmentOne of my earliest memories is racing up a flight of hollow stairs in Kawerau’s town hall as Tiwi, my first friend, counts dow…
Read MoreWithout a dramatic change in New Zealand’s vaccination rates, Covid-19 risks becoming a disease for brown peopleAnd so with that, a confusing 20-minute monologue in the Beehive theatrette, New Zealand’s virus-beating elimination strategy is over. As th…
Read MoreIf we must wait for the perfect circumstances to speak or sing te reo, we may as well sign the language’s death certificateMy sisters and I are the first generation in almost 50 generations of our family who didn’t grow up speaking te reo Māori as a fi…
Read MoreThe company is notorious as an employer and its expansion here may not be in the country’s best interestsThe future of capitalism is the distribution centre. Or it’s the future of retail at least, if Amazon is the innovator its executives sell it as; t…
Read MoreOur national reluctance to make a fuss as well as the structure of our government have helped us fight CovidOn 28 February 2020, the New Zealand authorities were confirming the country’s “first” Covid-19 case. “PANDEMONIUM”, wrote the New Zealand Heral…
Read MoreMāori memories of past epidemics meant iwi were instrumental in forcing Jacinda Ardern’s government to act quicklyIn the space of a few days in 2017 New Zealand’s Labour caucus made Jacinda Ardern their leader. In the space of a month the country made …
Read MoreShe is impossible to miss, understands both sides of the Māori debate and speaks up on foreign policy in a way that works well for Jacinda Ardern In a room of dignitaries, New Zealand’s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta is impossible to miss. She is the f…
Read MoreThe PM promised transformative government, but has so far largely maintained the status quoJacinda Ardern was travelling in a taxi in July 2017, two months before the election that would make her prime minister, when arguably the most important message…
Read MorePulling together in a time of crisis, where the burden falls so unevenly, is just what will help us to rebuild in a post-Covid-19 worldCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageI feel like a New Zealand patriot.I’m hardly a nationalis…
Read MoreAhead of the first anniversary, New Zealand First’s Shane Jones goes into election mode and stokes racial tensions Isn’t it astonishing that, not even two weeks out from the Christchurch shooting’s first anniversary, the senior cabinet minister Shane J…
Read MoreLand loss is at the heart of every Indigenous struggle and our national day is a reminder that Māori are still fighting for self-governanceThis week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.One reas…
Read MoreEver more non-Māori are doing the haka – but shouldn’t be unless its integrity is preservedI wonder if any of the French lawyers protesting their government’s pension reform with a haka, the Māori dance form, have ever set foot in New Zealand?For a goo…
Read MoreThe moral case for the former Manus island detainee becoming a citizen is as simple as ‘asylum is a human right’I wonder if it winds up Peter Dutton to know that Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist, award-winning author and former Manus Is…
Read MoreThe ‘war on gangs’ rhetoric may be politically effective, but as a policy it fails, time after timeIt took me almost 10 years to notice that the green ink snaking across my old man’s forehead said “Mongrel Mob”. I never thought the bulldogs wrapping ar…
Read More