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Hundreds of protesters, inspired by Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’, have gathered in the country Demonstrations against a Covid vaccine mandate are part of an “imported protest,” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, pointing to “Trump flags” and “Canadian flags” being waved outside the country’s parliament. Speaking to state broadcaster TVNZ, Ardern condemned the […]
The parliament speaker used sprinklers and blasted annoying music to scare away demonstrators camping outside Hundreds of anti-vaccine mandate protesters camped outside New Zealand’s parliament in the capital city of Wellington throughout Saturday, despite the authorities’ unconventional techniques to flush them out. The parliament speaker, Trevor Mallard, said he ordered the sprinkler system to be […]
A Maori leader has demanded that Australia stop deporting violent criminals to New Zealand. Many of them are “products” of Australian society who have no ties to New Zealand, he argued. “New Zealand has got to stop being the dumping ground for Australian criminals,” Matthew Tukaki, the executive chairman of the country’s National Maori Authority, […]
New Zealand will not send its diplomats to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing, the country’s deputy prime minister said, explaining that the move is “mostly” motivated by Covid-19 hours after the US declared its own boycott. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson told local media on Tuesday that diplomatic representatives from the island would not […]
A massive crowd of protesters took to New Zealand’s national parliament to demand an end to government lockdowns and vaccine mandates, with scuffles reportedly breaking out between demonstrators and police, as well as journalists. Some 3,000 people showed up in Wellington early on Tuesday to protest the government’s Covid-19 policies, local media reported, with the […]
New Zealand won’t be dragged into US hostilities with China, with which it has a ‘mature’ relationship that allows for disputes and differences to be resolved in a calm manner, PM Jacinda Ardern said. Ardern was prompted several times to take a stance on the confrontation between the US and China during an interview with […]
Leaders of New Zealand’s underworld have teamed up with the government to urge their followers to get vaccinated against Covid-19, in the latest bid to reach out to communities on the margins of society. A four-minute video released this week features seven prominent figures from the Head Hunters, King Cobras, Black Power and Mongrel Mob […]
New Zealand has recorded its highest-ever daily Covid-19 infection count with just shy of 100 new local cases, despite over 80% of citizens having had at least one vaccine dose. Officials have blamed the spike on rule-breakers. The nation’s remaining hopes of achieving ‘zero Covid’ have shown no signs of coming any closer to reality, […]
New Zealand will gradually drop its policy of seeking a zero Covid-19 infection rate in the country. The move was “accelerated” by the arrival of the more contagious Delta variant, the country’s prime minister has said. Since the start of the pandemic, the island nation has been implementing what became unofficially known as the ‘zero-Covid […]
A large group of demonstrators gathered at a major park in Auckland, New Zealand to protest ongoing Covid lockdown measures in the country – many arriving with a procession of motorbikes headed by a local church leader. The protesters – who numbered between 1,000 and 2,000, per local media reports – descended on the Auckland Domain […]
New Zealand has voted to strengthen a counter-terrorism bill, now criminalizing the planning of attacks after a knifeman inspired by Islamic State recently left several injured, despite being trailed by police for weeks. Parliament passed the bill on its third reading on Thursday, voting to amend two previous pieces of legislation that took effect in […]
The New Zealand government has announced that the removal of ‘at risk’ children from their families will end, after Maori families complained that the process, known as ‘uplifting’, racially discriminates against them. Speaking on Wednesday, Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis said the government will “end uplifts as we have known them,” accepting all the recommendations made […]
A ‘pilot’ scheme to allow certain people arriving in New Zealand to isolate at home instead of at state-run quarantine facilities has been introduced by authorities, who have been criticized for their tough pandemic measures. The home isolation strategy will be tested on 150 people, and all those who are interested can apply from Thursday […]
With new cases being reported in locked-down Auckland daily, New Zealand’s Covid-19 response minister has said the government will not abandon its zero-infections strategy, even as it is becoming increasingly unrealistic. “We are not giving up on getting back down to zero. That is absolutely what we are striving for,” Chris Hipkins told a press […]
Lockdown in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, won’t be lifted, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said as the country, which tries to stem a Delta variant outbreak, reported the worst number of Covid-19 cases in 11 days on Monday. Some 1.7 million residents in Auckland will remain under strict Level 4 lockdown until midnight on September […]