Tag: covid-19
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...
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...
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...
Omicron Tonga: Heartbreak as hearse arrives outside MIQ hotel for daughter...
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...
Covid-19 will be in ‘just about every NZ school’ soon, says...
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...
Covid-19 omicron outbreak: NZ moves to phase 3 of response to...
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...
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...
RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates...
‘Take omicron seriously,’ expert Rod Jackson warns New Zealand
RNZ News
Epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson is urging New Zealanders to take omicron seriously, and certainly not to think of it as similar to the...
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...
Police criticise ‘disgraceful’ NZ protesters after early clash
By Nick Truebridge, RNZ Checkpoint reporter
Police leaders condemned the behaviour by protesters outside New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington today as "absolutely disgraceful".
The...
Fiji covid death rate among unvaxxed 17 times higher than for...
RNZ Pacific
The Fiji government has warned that unvaccinated people in the vaccine-eligible population are 17 times more likely to die if they contract covid-19...
Protest funder hopes it will revive NZ’s $18 billion tourism industry
RNZ News
One of the people funding New Zealand's two-week-old Parliament grounds occupation says it makes no sense to maintain a quarantine system at the...
Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love...
COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch
There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and...
Easing of NZ restrictions to begin ‘well beyond’ omicron peak, says...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the omicron outbreak is likely to peak in Aotearoa New Zealand in three to six weeks.
At that point,...
NZ’s Parliament anti-mandates protest deadlock – where to from here?
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
Two weeks in and New Zealand's anti-mandates occupation of Parliament grounds remains a total stalemate with no sign...
Nick Rockel: Flower children and neo-Nazis, don’t hold the capital to...
COMMENTARY: Open letter by Nick Rockel to the Parliament protesters.
So the Parliament protest goes on, the first protest I can recall having absolutely no...