Tag: Parliament protest
NZ anti-mandate protesters march across Auckland Harbour Bridge
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All southbound traffic lanes on State Highway One over the Auckland Harbour Bridge have now reopened after they were closed while New Zealand...
The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of...
ANALYSIS: By Giacomo Lichtner, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
During the anti-lockdown protests at Parliament last year, I was told about a...
NZ omicron outbreak: Protest at Parliament now location of interest
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The two-week old protest at New Zealand's Parliament has been added to the Ministry of Health's covid-19 locations of interest website as new...
Fears that NZ Parliament protest turning into political ‘free-for-all’
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter
Misinformation researchers are concerned the protest at New Zealand' s Parliament is becoming a "free-for-all" as the idea of...
The NZ Parliament protest is testing police independence and public tolerance...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
The early morning action on Monday to cordon off the occupation of Parliament grounds and prevent it growing...
Police criticise ‘disgraceful’ NZ protesters after early clash
By Nick Truebridge, RNZ Checkpoint reporter
Police leaders condemned the behaviour by protesters outside New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington today as "absolutely disgraceful".
The...
Protest funder hopes it will revive NZ’s $18 billion tourism industry
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One of the people funding New Zealand's two-week-old Parliament grounds occupation says it makes no sense to maintain a quarantine system at the...
Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love...
COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch
There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and...
Easing of NZ restrictions to begin ‘well beyond’ omicron peak, says...
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the omicron outbreak is likely to peak in Aotearoa New Zealand in three to six weeks.
At that point,...
NZ’s Parliament anti-mandates protest deadlock – where to from here?
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
Two weeks in and New Zealand's anti-mandates occupation of Parliament grounds remains a total stalemate with no sign...
Nick Rockel: Flower children and neo-Nazis, don’t hold the capital to...
COMMENTARY: Open letter by Nick Rockel to the Parliament protesters.
So the Parliament protest goes on, the first protest I can recall having absolutely no...
NZ capital’s residents fed up with Parliament protest as new covid...
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Some residents of the area around New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington are worried about leaving their houses with protesters outside, while...
NZ police begin to clear up some of blockade near Parliament...
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New Zealand police have moved to start clearing up the roads near Parliament in the capital Wellington, where protesters have clogged the roads...
Parliament disruption: Growing calls for NZ protesters to go home
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Many central Wellington shops face a crisis, university buildings have been closed for eight weeks and many report major disruptions from the illegal...
‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s...
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Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...
NZ Parliament occupation: Protesters’ vehicle blockade remains on 10th day
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Police have pulled back on their plans to begin towing vehicles illegally parked around the anti-vaccine, anti-mandate protest on Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament...
Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in...
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Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand's 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made...
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...
Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to...
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New Zealand's Police Commissioner admits some tow companies are reluctant to help with the removal of vehicles near Parliament but says some towing...
The occupation of NZ’s parliament grounds is a tactical challenge for...
ANALYSIS: By Ross Hendy, Monash University
The continued occupation of the Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament’s grounds by anti-vaccine mandate protesters (and others) provides a unique...
Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is...
Omicron spread: ‘Crazy’ shortfall in booster numbers worries top NZ covid-19...
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The one million New Zealanders who are so far delaying getting their booster shots are the biggest concern of top covid-19 adviser Sir...