Tag: Protesters
PM Luxon’s security cut short visit ahead of Palestine protest
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's security detail has cut a media briefing short over protesters in Auckland.
He was holding a press conference...
‘Empty plate’ protesters call on NZ govt to demand Gaza ceasefire
RNZ News
Hundreds of people holding empty plates gathered in central Auckland today demanding the New Zealand government call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Protesters at...
‘I hear your cry’, UPNG chief tells protesting medical students
PNG Post-Courier
The University of Papua New Guinea's vice-chancellor, Professor Frank Griffin, has assured protesting students of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences that...
20 people wounded in Indonesian police crackdown on Papua protest
Asia Pacific Report
At least 20 people were wounded when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined...
Hipkins faces grilling from students over University of Otago staff cuts
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins faced a grilling by University of Otago students during his trip to Ōtepoti...
Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta...
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya
Following months of legal limbo and a health crisis, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was arrested this week by the country's Corruption...
NZ Chinese local community protests against China lockdowns, ‘dictatorship’
By Lucy Xia, RNZ News journalist
More than 200 people from Aotearoa New Zealand's Chinese community gathered for a vigil at Auckland's Aotea Square last...
Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum – but will they be...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Walker, La Trobe University
As protests in Iran drag on into their fourth week over the violent death in custody of Mahsa...
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...
Anti-mandate protesters try to camp at marae – told to ‘go...
RNZ News
Small groups of anti-mandate protesters are still lingering around Wellington after being cleared out of New Zealand's Parliament precinct on Wednesday
The disparate collection...
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...
NZ anti-mandate protesters march across Auckland Harbour Bridge
RNZ News
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...
Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to...
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...
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...
Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police
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...
Solomon Islands riots: International community monitoring ‘nervous’ calm
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
With no plans to evacuate their citizens from Honiara, the international community is closely monitoring the situation in the...
Kaitiaki block ‘particularly dangerous’ anti-vax protesters at Auckland border
By Sam Olley, RNZ News reporter
Ngāti Whātua kaitiaki remain in bolstered numbers at the border between Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tokerau to stop...
1981 Springbok tour protests revisited – and now Palestine is the...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
After his release from prison in South Africa and he became inaugural president of the majority rule government with the abolition...
Tagata Pasifika Special: Celebrating 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers
Tagata Pasifika
They were the face of a generation growing up in a new land. They were the Polynesian Panthers, young activists fighting against social...