Tag: Parliament
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...
60 arrests made as NZ police say some Parliament protesters have...
RNZ News
Police have made 60 arrests today as part of a pre-planned operation to remove anti-covid public health protesters from New Zealand's Parliament grounds.
Police...
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...
Auckland closes Domain to vehicles over anti-health camping protesters
RNZ News
The Auckland Domain remained closed today to vehicles until further notice, because a small number of anti-covid protesters have set up tents there...
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...
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
RNZ News
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
RNZ News
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...
RNZ News
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...
RNZ News
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...
RNZ News
New Zealand police have moved to start clearing up the roads near Parliament in the capital Wellington, where protesters have clogged the roads...
‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s...
RNZ News
Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...
‘Corruption fighter’ Justice Minister Kramer vows to contest PNG Ombudsman charges
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Justice Minister and Madang MP Bryan Kramer has been referred to the Public Prosecutor by the...