Tag: Parliament protest
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...
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...
Ian Powell: Sociopaths, psychopaths, the far-right and Jacinda Ardern
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
On 14 December 2022 German police arrested 25 people over what was called the “Reichsburger plot”. Two days later The Observer...
No arrests as ‘freedom’ protest winds up peacefully outside NZ’s Parliament
RNZ News
New Zealand police praised how an anti-government protest at Parliament unfolded today, saying there were no arrests and no trespass orders issued.
Police estimated...
NZ’s Parliament siege, ‘disinformation war’, kava and media change featured in...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Frontline investigative articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament protester siege, social media disinformation and Asia-Pacific media changes and adaptations are...
Parliament protest donations went to bank account of man with history...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
A man whose personal bank account was used to receive donations for New Zealand's Parliament protest is...
From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University
With recent polling showing National edging ahead of Labour for the first time in two years, Jacinda Ardern’s previously...
Parliament protest: Questions remain on funding sources and where the money...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
Police will not give details about finances and their investigation into the New Zealand protest against covid-19...
Parliament protest: What the cameras in the crowd witnessed
SPECIAL REPORT: By Rituraj Sapkota of Māori Television
“I have never had that fear before that I might get physically hurt,” says Patrice Allen, a...
Covid-19: 28 Parliament protesters believed to have tested positive
RNZ News
Twenty-eight of the anti-public health protesters who occupied New Zealand's Parliament grounds over the past month have now tested positive for covid-19.
In a...
How protesters demanding ‘freedom’ from covid restrictions ignore the way liberty...
ANALYSIS: By Andrew Vonasch, University of Canterbury and Michael-John Turp, University of Canterbury
Like the many similar movements against vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions...
How NZ’s Parliament anti-covid protest was brought to an end
By Sharon Brettkelly, co-host of RNZ's The Detail
After 23 days, the occupation at Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament was finally brought to a chaotic and...
Political parties condemn Parliament protesters, praise police actions
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
All political parties have supported a motion in Parliament to recognise the "safe restoration of Parliament's grounds"...
Parliament protest aftermath – NZ police enter ‘significant investigation phase’
RNZ News
Police have begun a "significant investigation" into yesterday's events at the Parliament protest and say they will hold people accountable for any criminal...
Police out in force after chaotic scenes end anti-mandate protest at...
RNZ News
Police are out in force in New Zealand's capital Wellington after yesterday's massive operation to clear the illegal anti-covid public health measures occupation...
NZ Parliament grounds ‘reclaimed’: Police operation ends 23-day protest
RNZ News
The area around New Zealand's Parliament has today been the scene of a full-day ordeal of violence as police removed protesters whose behaviour...
PM Ardern denounces violence, ‘desecration’ outside Parliament
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is saddened and angered by protesters' actions today, and that the New Zealand Parliament's grounds have been...
NZ’s covid-19 response still one of the best worldwide, says health...
RNZ News
A public health expert says New Zealand's covid-19 response is still one of the best in the world, two years after the first...
Auckland Domain protest: Mayor says council ready to trespass campers
RNZ News
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says council has trespass orders "ready to go" as Auckland Domain remains closed to vehicles due to a small...
Ukraine, covid mandate protesters compete for attention in NZ’s capital
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter
Ukrainians and their supporters at a protest on the New Zealand capital Wellington say it's agonising not being able...
Protesters show up as covid-19 patients at hospitals across New Zealand
RNZ News
Hospitals across New Zealand are receiving anti-covid-19 mandate protesters returning from Parliament, and are pleading with those experiencing cold and flu symptoms to...