Tag: Local government
Mayor slams Kaipara councillor’s protest role as ‘health risk’
By Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporting journalist
A Kaipara district councillor's almost week-long participation in New Zealand's anti-covid-19 mandate protest at Parliament is jeopardising the...
Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to...
Auckland councillor shaken by bomb threat after criticising TV show
LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Justin Latif, Local Democracy reporter
Auckland councillor Fa'anānā Efeso Collins received death threats after criticising a reality police TV show, and...
Papuans protest over draconian bid by Jakarta to replace Governor Enembe
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
Indonesia's most troubled province of Papua is become embroiled in another mass demonstration with protesters barricading provincial government buildings and...
