Tag: Parliament

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...

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...

COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RNZ News 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...

RNZ News 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...

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...

RNZ News New Zealand's Police Commissioner admits some tow companies are reluctant to help with the removal of vehicles near Parliament but says some towing...

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...

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...

RNZ News The one million New Zealanders who are so far delaying getting their booster shots are the biggest concern of top covid-19 adviser Sir...

RNZ News Hundreds of anti-mandate protesters remained on the New Zealand Parliament lawn today as health officials reported a big increase in covid-19 cases nationally. But...

RNZ News Police say a protester who needed medical attention within New Zealand's Parliament grounds last night had to wait for ambulance staff to get...

RNZ News Police say misinformation and a "range of different causes and motivations" are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New...

RNZ News New Zealand police are braced as more protesters began arriving as the demonstration at Parliament in the capital Wellington entered the fourth day. Tensions...

RNZ News One hundred and twenty protesters have been arrested for refusing to leave the grounds of New Zealand's Parliament after being trespassed today Police say...