Tag: Housing
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...