Tag: Covid protest
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...
Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is...
NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern
RNZ News
"Go home and take your children" -- that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today.
Despite being...
NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost...
RNZ News
Hundreds of anti-mandate protesters remained on the New Zealand Parliament lawn today as health officials reported a big increase in covid-19 cases nationally.
But...
Stronger police barriers, heavy rain, covid ads don’t dampen NZ protest
RNZ News
Police say a protester who needed medical attention within New Zealand's Parliament grounds last night had to wait for ambulance staff to get...
Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’,...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has warned that although people have a right to protest when "they threaten, harass and disrupt...
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...