Tag: Green Party

OBITUARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga A New Zealand politician and human rights activist with a strong connection to Tonga’s Democracy movement and other...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A former National Party Member of Parliament says his late party looked "like dickheads" not supporting the first reading...

Asia Pacific Report The Aotearoa Caravan For a Free Palestine arrived in Auckland at the weekend and was greeted and supported by a large rally...

RNZ News Former Green MP Keith Locke, a passionate activist and anti-war critic once described as "conscience of the year", has died in hospital, aged...

RNZ Pacific Public submissions have closed on a bill which would offer a pathway to New Zealand citizenship to a group of Samoans born between...

Asia Pacific Report About 20,000 protesters marched through the heart of New Zealand's largest city Auckland today demonstrating against the unpopular Fast Track Approvals Bill...

Asia Pacific Report Barangay New Zealand's Rene Molina has interviewed the country's first Filipino Green MP Francisco Hernandez who was sworn into Parliament yesterday as...

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A petition urging the New Zealand government to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people has been...

RNZ News Outspoken MP Chlöe Swarbrick will be the Green Party's new co-leader alongside Marama Davidson, as climate change specialist James Shaw steps down. Last month,...

Asia Pacific Report About 5000 protesters calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli's genocidal  war on Gaza today took part in a...

RNZ News The late Green Party MP Fa'anānā Efeso Collins has been remembered by his widow as an "extraordinary man" at a service in South...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A political commentator says Green Party co-leader James Shaw was a "friend of the Pacific". Shaw, who was previously New...

Asia Pacific Report Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens party Mehreen Faruqi says the survival of millions of people in Gaza depends on...

RNZ News As New Zealand's former climate change minister James Shaw prepares to step down from the Green Party's co-leadership role, the space has opened...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been warned that Māori will not sit by without a fight if the government attempts to...

ANALYSIS: By Cassandra Mudgway, University of Canterbury The high-stress nature of working in politics is increasingly taking a toll on staff and politicians. But an...

RNZ News Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman -- a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and...

ANALYSIS: By Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne While the tide well and truly went out on Labour on election night in Aotearoa New Zealand,...

By Debrin Foxcroft, Finlay Macdonald, Matt Garrow and Veronika Meduna, The Conversation From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in...

RNZ News Two polls out tonight both have Winston Peters firmly in the drivers' seat for forming a government with Aotearoa New Zealand's general election...

RNZ News Green Party co-leader James Shaw has compared the language of New Zealand First leader Winston Peters to former US president Donald Trump, saying...

RNZ News New Zealand's Green Party says it will double the Best Start payment from $69 a week to $140 -- and it will also...