カテゴリー: Green Party
Welcome to the newsletter’s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos – and check back on 26 December to see how you faredGood morning, and happy whatever-you’re-celebrating today. There may come a moment…
Bucking global trends, polls find young voter support higher for National and right coalition than Labour as election nearsWhen New Zealand’s Labour party was elected in 2017, commentators heralded the “youthquake”. Jacinda Ardern had brought a dose of…
Greens co-leader James Shaw says Labour shouldn’t count on its support in upcoming election amid glacial progress on emissionsSpeaking to a room full of supporters in downtown Auckland on Sunday, New Zealand climate minister James Shaw’s frustration ha…
Anti-racism video by Marama Davidson featured chocolate labelled in te reo Māori, breaching rules against product promotionA New Zealand minister has had to revise her anti-racism social media posts featuring a popular brand of chocolate, after the pri…
Country’s ‘slick branding machine’ can’t hide ‘entrenched inequality’, says Ricardo Menéndez March New Zealand’s first Latin American MP has had a controversial start: he’s been labelled “disrespectful” for his attitude to senior citizens, called out t…
Ardern says agreement allows parties to ‘take their own positions’ and stops short of a coalitionJacinda Ardern’s Labour party has signed a “cooperation” agreement with the Green party, the prime minister has said, saying she hopes the agreement will b…
Supporters jubilant after defying poor early polls and gaining first electorate win since 1999The mood at the election headquarters of New Zealand’s Green party was triumphal, almost as though the party had won the election outright. The election resul…