Tag: Anti-vaxxers
RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an...
RNZ News
It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...
Ian Powell: Sociopaths, psychopaths, the far-right and Jacinda Ardern
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
On 14 December 2022 German police arrested 25 people over what was called the “Reichsburger plot”. Two days later The Observer...
Former NZ PM Helen Clark calls for rethink on political debate...
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand has become hugely polarised and it is little wonder Jacinda Ardern has decided to call it a day, says Helen...
NZ blood donor case: Baby’s surgery takes place at Starship hospital
RNZ News
The baby in Aotearoa New Zealand whose parents did not want him to receive blood from people who may have had the covid...
Mediawatch: Anti-vax parents create media conundrum and criticism
MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
One press conference question at a Prime Ministerial summit in Aotearoa New Zealand kicked off a wave of...
NZ anti-vaxxer appears in court again on nation’s first sabotage charges
By Ethan Griffiths, Open Justice reporter of The New Zealand Herald
An anti-vaccination campaigner who this year became the first person ever accused of breaching...
Martyn Bradbury: Why these feral anti-vax conspiracy theorists seeking public office...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
If there was one good outcome of the very one sided Fire & Fury, it’s that...
A NZ media conundrum over how to cover the ‘dangerous’ conspiracists
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
A documentary from Stuff Circuit this week delved into Aotearoa New Zealand's growing extreme far-right and anti-vax movement.
Why did...
Vaccine resistance has its roots in negative childhood experiences, major NZ...
ANALYSIS: By Richie Poulton, University of Otago; Avshalom Caspi, Duke University, and Terrie Moffitt, Duke University
Most people welcomed the opportunity to get vaccinated against...
From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University
With recent polling showing National edging ahead of Labour for the first time in two years, Jacinda Ardern’s previously...
How NZ’s Parliament anti-covid protest was brought to an end
By Sharon Brettkelly, co-host of RNZ's The Detail
After 23 days, the occupation at Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament was finally brought to a chaotic and...
60 arrests made as NZ police say some Parliament protesters have...
RNZ News
Police have made 60 arrests today as part of a pre-planned operation to remove anti-covid public health protesters from New Zealand's Parliament grounds.
Police...
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...
The NZ Parliament protest is testing police independence and public tolerance...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
The early morning action on Monday to cordon off the occupation of Parliament grounds and prevent it growing...
Parliament disruption: Growing calls for NZ protesters to go home
RNZ News
Many central Wellington shops face a crisis, university buildings have been closed for eight weeks and many report major disruptions from the illegal...
Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in...
RNZ News
Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand's 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made...
Covid-19 outbreak: NZ police brace for fourth day of protest at...
RNZ News
New Zealand police are braced as more protesters began arriving as the demonstration at Parliament in the capital Wellington entered the fourth day.
Tensions...
Covid-19: NZ protesters camped at Parliament warned over trespass
RNZ News
More than 50 police have formed a ring around the front of New Zealand's Parliament today edging up to a line of protesters...
Iwi clinic egged as anti-vaxxers force caution in vaccine rollout for...
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporting
Māori health providers in Aotearoa New Zealand are holding back on covid-19 vaccinations for children in the face of...
Omicron in NZ, covid-19 vaccine milestones and mandate protest
RNZ News
New Zealand's first case of omicron has been identified, as the country hit its 90 percent full vaccination target today, children between five...
NZ nurse referred to Nursing Council over online threats to attack...
RNZ News
A New Zealand nurse has been referred to a professional conduct committee by the Nursing Council after posting threats online against medical professionals...
How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
PART 2: WS storytelling in more detail
In part one of my article on White Supremacy (WS), I articulated some of the...