Tag: NZ Parliament
Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic...
RNZ News
An estimated 10,000 people have marched through Rotorua today as part of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti protesting against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.
Due...
NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament
By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter
An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand's national apology to survivors of abuse in care has...
NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissions
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...
16,000 sign NZ petition urging more support for Gaza – tabled...
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...
Pasifika MP among possibles for NZ’s new Green co-leadership
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...
Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying...
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...
Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’
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...
NZ election 2023: Polls understated the right, but National-ACT may struggle...
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,...
NZ Parliament protest: Hundreds march, extra police on patrol
RNZ News
Hundreds of protesters have marched to Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament in Wellington today, where streets were closed and the precinct blocked off in...
NZ election 2023: From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power...
ANALYSIS: By Annie Te One, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
In his maiden speech to Parliament in 2020, Te Pāti Māori co-leader...
Hipkins warns NZ voters against ‘turning the clock back’ on reforms
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Parliament has ended for another term, shutting down ahead of the Aotearoa New Zealand election campaign with...
Hipkins grants Fiji $11m in climate crisis aid as Rabuka renews...
By RNZ reporters and Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka was welcomed to the New Zealand Parliament yesterday while on his...
Long game: political activism for a public voice at Parliament
THE HOUSE: By Johnny Blades, journalist
If elected representatives have their work cut out for them to create the slightest social or political change through...
Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’
RNZ News
Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according...
RNZ documentary Boiling Point – spotlight on final day of an...
RNZ News
It has been a year since the violent end of the illegal occupation at Parliament in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you thought you...