Monthly Archives: February 2022
NZ’s covid-19 response still one of the best worldwide, says health expert
RNZ News
A public health expert says New Zealand's covid-19 response is still one of the best in the world, two years after the first...
Ukraine’s military is outgunned but can still inflict a great deal of pain on...
ANALYSIS: By Frank Ledwidge, University of Portsmouth
Ukraine’s ramshackle military offered no resistance to the Crimean annexation in February 2014. Since then the poorly equipped...
Auckland Domain protest: Mayor says council ready to trespass campers
RNZ News
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says council has trespass orders "ready to go" as Auckland Domain remains closed to vehicles due to a small...
NZ newspaper condemns ‘reckless’ pandemic protesters in face of Ukraine’s ‘real danger’
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper today contrasted the "reckless self-expression" of anti-covid mandates protesters and the dangers confronting the people of...
Local advocacy groups call on NZ to press Indonesia to free accused activist
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A national network of groups supporting freedom and justice for West Papua has called on Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta to condemn...
Auckland closes Domain to vehicles over anti-health camping protesters
RNZ News
The Auckland Domain remained closed today to vehicles until further notice, because a small number of anti-covid protesters have set up tents there...
Ukraine, covid mandate protesters compete for attention in NZ’s capital
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter
Ukrainians and their supporters at a protest on the New Zealand capital Wellington say it's agonising not being able...
Protesters show up as covid-19 patients at hospitals across New Zealand
RNZ News
Hospitals across New Zealand are receiving anti-covid-19 mandate protesters returning from Parliament, and are pleading with those experiencing cold and flu symptoms to...
NZ anti-mandate protesters march across Auckland Harbour Bridge
RNZ News
All southbound traffic lanes on State Highway One over the Auckland Harbour Bridge have now reopened after they were closed while New Zealand...
Russia-Ukraine conflict will impact on Pacific economies, says USP academic
RNZ Pacific
The invasion of Ukraine is likely to have a signficant impact on the Pacific, warns a senior USP academic.
On Thursday, Russia launched a...
Omicron Tonga: Heartbreak as hearse arrives outside MIQ hotel for daughter to say goodbye
Kaniva News
Kaniva News correspondent Patimiosi Ngūngūtau took this photo of an emotional farewell for a grieving Tongan family at the Tanoa hotel in Nukua’alofa...
Putin ‘will not stop at Ukraine’ – NZ protesters condemn Russian invasion
By Tom Kitchin and Emma Hatton, RNZ News reporters
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been met with despair and anger in New Zealand.
Nearly 100 people...
Covid-19 will be in ‘just about every NZ school’ soon, says Hipkins
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent
Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every New Zealand school and early childhood centre will have...
PM condemns Russia’s Ukraine invasion which will claim many ‘innocent lives’
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand joins its international partners in condemnation of Russia's attack on Ukraine and has immediately taken a...
The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of a long and...
ANALYSIS: By Giacomo Lichtner, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
During the anti-lockdown protests at Parliament last year, I was told about a...
MEAA condemns EMTV’s ‘assault’ on PNG journalists’ rights
MEAA News
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance’s national media section committee of elected officials has condemned the suspension of 24 Papua New Guinean TV...
New Zealand announces bans on Russia in reply to Ukraine invasion
RNZ News
In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, New Zealand's government is implementing a range of measures, including a travel ban on Russian officials...
Covid-19 omicron outbreak: NZ moves to phase 3 of response to soaring cases
RNZ News
New Zealand will move to phase 3 of the omicron response at 11.59pm tonight, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed.
Director-General of Health...
NZ omicron outbreak: Protest at Parliament now location of interest
RNZ News
The two-week old protest at New Zealand's Parliament has been added to the Ministry of Health's covid-19 locations of interest website as new...
Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality
National Māori Authority chair Matthew Tukaki has seen plenty of protests and received his fair share of abuse, but what’s been happening in Wellington...
People’s Party back all-women team for PNG capital hot seats
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
The People’s Party has made an unprecedented announcement to endorse four women candidates for all four National Capital District...
Fears that NZ Parliament protest turning into political ‘free-for-all’
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter
Misinformation researchers are concerned the protest at New Zealand' s Parliament is becoming a "free-for-all" as the idea of...