Tag: Anti-vaxxers
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...
NZ Parliament on high security as anti-vaxxer protesters gather
RNZ News
New Zealand's Parliament was on high security today as thousands marched through the capital Wellington for an anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination protest.
Thousands of people...
Fiji police block Suva climate change march marking COP26 protests
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Police stopped a climate change march in Suva today and forced activists to remove their banners.
They also warned demonstrators against making...
NZ anti-vaxxers foil PM Ardern’s planned clinic media briefing
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not turn up to a planned New Zealand media event at a vaccination clinic in Whanganui today where...
Kaitiaki block ‘particularly dangerous’ anti-vax protesters at Auckland border
By Sam Olley, RNZ News reporter
Ngāti Whātua kaitiaki remain in bolstered numbers at the border between Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tokerau to stop...
Medical Council has ‘zero tolerance’ for NZ anti-vax advice – 44...
RNZ News
Twenty three complaints regarding New Zealand doctors spreading anti-vaccination misinformation have been made to the Medical Council as the group says it has...
‘Get vaccinated before it gets you’ plea from PNG anti-vaxxer champ
PNG Post-Courier
Phyonna Silikara Gangloff is a champion Papua New Guinean squash player.
Fit and healthy, the 37-year-old mother of two lived a normal life until...
Warnings to anti-vaxxers slowing rollout in Solomons and PNG
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Anti-vax misinformation is throwing a spanner in the works for covid-19 vaccination programmes in Papua New Guinea and Solomon...
NZ covid: Calls to dump ‘dangerous’ fringe anti-vaccine magazine
By Katie Doyle of RNZ News
A new anti-vaccine publication with links to the Advance New Zealand fringe political party should be ripped up and...