Tag: Green Party
Win for diversity in Wellington, defeat in Auckland as NZ votes...
RNZ News
Wellington's Tory Whanau has convincingly won the mayoralty race for Te Whanganui-a-Tara in a triumph for diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand's local government...
Workers who helped NZ migrant fraud inquiry gutted to be told...
By Lucy Xia, RNZ News reporter
A group of migrants who have been helping a New Zealand investigation into immigration fraud may soon be forced...
Russel Norman: Don’t be fooled by NZ greenwashing, the lack of...
ANALYSIS: By Russel Norman, executive director of Greenpeace Aotearoa
Only people power can ensure genuine enduring progress on climate and people need to know the...
‘A bit of a surprise’ – Greens co-leader James Shaw’s job...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
A shellshocked Climate Change Minister James Shaw has been ejected from the New Zealand Greens' leadership by...
Scott Morrison defeated – Labor to govern in minority or majority
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Morrison government has been resoundingly defeated in the Australian federal election, with Labor headed for office,...
NZ’s fast-track residency plans overlook Pacific, say Greens
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's plans to fast-track residency for migrants is being criticised for leaving out lower paid migrants, many of whom are Pacific Islanders.
The...
Greens condemn ‘two-tier’ NZ migrant policy as entrenching inequities
RNZ News
The New Zealand government's immigration decisions amount to a "white immigration policy", creating a two-tier system that will entrench inequities, claims the Green...
Abandoned West Papuan students in NZ welcome immigration news
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuan students stranded in Aotearoa New Zealand by an abrupt cancellation of their Indonesian government scholarships earlier this year while...
Ukraine example cited in call to extend visas for abandoned Papuan...
By Matthew Scott of Newsroom
Time is running out for a group of West Papuan students in New Zealand whose scholarships were cut -- out...
Ukraine war: Green Party says NZ’s $5m funding better for ‘saving...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
The Green Party says New Zealand has put its relationship with the NATO security alliance ahead of...
West Papuan students in dire straits in NZ after Indonesia cuts...
By Sri Krishnamurthi, RNZ Pacific digital journalist
Students from West Papua have been facing a stressful time in New Zealand since the beginning of the...
Raising West Papua’s banned Morning Star flag – a global act...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
From Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau in Aotearoa New Zealand to Paris, France, and from Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara to Jayapura and far beyond,...
New Zealand should never have joined the war in Afghanistan
ANALYSIS: By Keith Locke
After the fall of Kabul, the obvious question for New Zealanders is whether we should ever have joined the American war...
Green Party’s bid for NZ declaration of Palestine as a state...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Green Party motion asking New Zealand MPs to recognise Palestine as a state has failed in the House, with opposition...
Golriz Ghahraman: Our stand for the statehood rights of Palestinians
COMMENTARY: By Golriz Ghahraman
Tomorrow I will move a motion calling on the New Zealand Parliament to join the Green Party in recognising the rights...
Ghahraman condemns ‘disappointing’ NZ response over attacks on Gaza
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The foreign spokesperson for New Zealand's Green Party, Golriz Ghahraman, is "disappointed" by the government’s response to escalating attacks by Israel...
NZ Greens condemn Israeli violence against Palestinian communities
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
New Zealand's Green Party has condemned the violent and forced displacement of the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah community of East Jerusalem by...
Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP
RNZ News
Australia is facing condemnation from National and Green Party MPs over the deportation of a 15-year-old boy to New Zealand.
Little detail has been...
NZ Super Fund dumps Israeli banks for funding settlements in Palestine
By Roger Fowler in Auckland
The multi-billion-dollar NZ Super Fund - New Zealand's state pension fund - has finally divested from five of Israel’s biggest...
Google aren’t ‘stealing’ news content, publisher Eric Beecher tells Senate
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Nine Entertainment and News Corporation are wrong to say Google and Facebook have destroyed their business models by stealing content, according...
Ardern now leads one of the most powerful governments NZ has...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University
Jacinda Ardern’s new “covid cabinet” is pretty much the same as — and completely unlike — every previous...
NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’
By RNZ News
Green Party delegates have voted to accept a deal with Labour which will give it two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet in...