Tag: Housing
The coming storm for New Zealand’s future retirees: still renting and...
ANALYSIS: By Claire Dale, University of Auckland
A large number of New Zealanders are facing a perfect storm at retirement, with minimal savings and no...
Rebuilding post-eruption Tonga: 4 key lessons from Fiji after Cyclone Winston
ANALYSIS: By Suzanne Wilkinson, Mohamed Elkharboutly and Regan Potangaroa, Massey University
While news from Tonga is still disrupted following the massive undersea eruption and tsunami...
Auckland is the world’s ‘most liveable city’? Many Māori might disagree
ANALYSIS: By Ella Henry, Auckland University of Technology
While I am always happy to celebrate any accolades my country and city might garner on the...
Bryan Bruce: NZ’s housing crisis – ask the right questions and...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce
You can't get the right answer if you keep asking the wrong question.
A question this neoliberal New Zealand government and previous...
Rebecca Kuku: No end in sight for Port Moresby’s unaffordable rental...
COMMENT: By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
For the majority of Papua New Guineans living in the capital of Port Moresby, providing a home for...
Scott Waide: Open letter to PM James Marape: Treat our people fairly
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae
Dear Prime Minister Marape
Our government has to admit the fact that there is a glaring imbalance between Papua New...
Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter
Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland's lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says New Zealand...
Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is...
COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne
Australia's Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules.
It then paid for...
NZ’s new covid action: $50bn rescue fund in ‘once in a...
By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News
A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...
Tongans bring ‘love and support’ to stand with Ihumātao
By Charlotte Muru-Lanning in Auckland
A Tongan group visited Ihumātao to show solidarity with the occupation of the land by mana whenua who greeted them with...
The call of Ihumātao: Migrant communities standing with Māori
By Michael Andrew
The occupation at Ihumātao is a spectacle of flags.
In every direction they flutter. Alongside tino rangatiratanga - the Māori flag of independence,...
Iwi against Ihumātao occupation social media pages shut down
By Charlotte Muru-Lanning in Auckland
Controversial social media pages belonging to the New Zealand iwi opposing the occupation at Ihumātao were shut down this morning.
The...
Ihumātao: Powerful powhiri welcomes state ministers to protest site
By RNZ News
About 2000 people showed their support as New Zealand protests against a controversial proposed housing development at Ihumātao in South Auckland entered...
Housing trust chief slams ‘short cuts’ approach to NZ homes crisis
By Rahul Bhattarai
A housing trust chief executive has condemned the government for taking “short cuts” to tackle New Zealand’s housing crisis.
“We need to stop...
Housing issue not just ethnic – Pākehā leaders have ‘failed’, says...
By Rahul Bhattarai
Author and researcher David Hall has criticised anti-immigration rhetoric in New Zealand’s housing crisis, saying a more serious problem is “Pākehā leaders...
Hundreds left homeless after being evicted near PNG’s main airport
The EMTV News report of the eviction of the villagers.
By Godwin Eki in Port Moresby
Hundreds of poor Papua New Guineans have been left homeless...
The ‘battle of Paga Hill’ – controversial PNG doco finally on...
When the police roll in with bulldozers to clear a waterfront residential area in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby and make space for...
Former National leader slams Key as achieving ‘nothing of significance’
Former National Party leader Don Brash has condemned the man who ousted him for the party's leadership, saying on New Zealand national radio John...
Bishop urged to reopen abandoned dorms in West Papua
Catholic students in West Papua have appealed to Bishop Leo Laba Ladjar of Jayapura to reopen closed education facilities for local people.
The students met...
Moving Pacific forward in Auckland’s housing crisis
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
Pacific members of Parliament were brought together this month to address the way forward for Pacific communities living amongst Auckland's current...
Ian Shirley: The NZ budget that has failed Auckland
ANALYSIS: By Professor Ian Shirley
New Zealand's 2016 budget offered Auckland nothing in the way of vision or hope and it continued the National government’s...
Hard to fight nature, but Fiji deserves better house building
By Alex Perrottet in The Fiji Times
Severe tropical cyclone Winston unleashed the full force of mother nature on a beautiful country.
But the peace and...