カテゴリー: New Zealand
PM says she found out allegation against party staffer was of a sexual nature only from reading media reportNew Zealand’s Labour party is in crisis after a 19-year-old member claimed she was sexually assaulted by a staffer who works in parliament house…
Two-thirds of country’s rivers are unswimmable with cow effluent and fertiliser run-off big contributing factorsThe New Zealand government has announced an ambitious plan to clean up the country’s freshwater sources, after years of pollution have made …
Major climbdown as Jacinda Ardern’s flagship KiwiBuild policy, designed to provide affordable housing, is dumpedThe New Zealand government has scrapped its target to build 100,000 homes in 10 years, saying it was “overly ambitious”.In a major climb-dow…
Bike riding courses run in Auckland are such a hit that ReBicycle is urgently looking for more volunteersLeila Rahimi was so scared when she first moved to New Zealand that she struggled to leave the house; and would spend days working up the courage t…
From bottle feeding infants in the chamber to a playground on the front lawn, speaker Trevor Mallard has welcomed infants into the corridors of power Trevor Mallard thought his days nursing babies might be over when he became speaker of New Zealand’s p…
Health professionals scrambling to stop spread after more than 700 measles cases recorded in Auckland this yearPublic health experts are warning the spread of measles to the Pacific Islands is “inevitable” as the most serious outbreak in 20 years grips…
New channel apologises to New Zealanders for map mix-up that also labelled Papua New Guinea as South KoreaRussian news channel RT has apologised for apparently accidentally labelling New Zealand as “Japan”, and Papua New Guinea as “South Korea” in an e…
Petition with more than 25,000 signatures delivered, calling on New Zealand PM to visit sacred Ihumātao siteSeveral hundred protesters have marched on Jacinda Ardern’s Auckland office, demanding she visit Ihumātao, the site of a major indigenous land d…
Total of 19 big advertisers have dropped his breakfast program after comments he made about Jacinda Ardern The broadcaster Alan Jones says advertisers who chose to abandon his program because of his slurs against women will be replaced by others.“I’ve …
Broadcasting Standards Authority issues NZ$4,000 penalty for airing footage that had ‘potential to cause significant distress’Sky Network Television in New Zealand has been fined by the country’s broadcasting watchdog for airing clips of live footage o…
Police say they are not looking for anyone else in relation to the camper van attack in the North Island surfing town of RaglanA man has faced court over the alleged murder of Australian surfer Sean McKinnon, who was shot while travelling in a camper v…
Forum’s chair describes leaders’ 12 hours of talks as ‘very, very tough struggle’Australia stands in opposition to other Pacific Islands nations after distancing itself from language calling for urgent action on climate change at a regional meeting in …
A common species of urban lichen is being promoted as a natural alternative to Viagra, much to the concern of scientistsBotanists in New Zealand are warning the public not to consume lichen growing on footpaths and shady rocks throughout the country, a…
Fresh atrocities in El Paso and Norway bring back the pain of New Zealand’s worst mass-shooting It’s just gone lunch time at al Noor mosque in central Christchurch and a handful of men gather to pray. They bend down on a thick blue carpet, newly instal…
Climate crisis is more than a meeting agenda item in a host country that could be left uninhabitable by rising sea levelsAs the leaders of Pacific countries step off their planes at Funafuti airport this week for the Pacific Islands Forum, they are bei…