Tag: Vaccine mandates
NZ covid-19 traffic light system scrapped from midnight, says PM Jacinda...
RNZ News
All mask wearing requirements in Aotearoa New Zealand -- except in healthcare and aged care -- will be scrapped, and household contacts will...
Iwi leader warns Māori to take extreme care under ‘dangerous’ new...
By Moana Ellis of Local Democracy Reporting
A Whanganui iwi leader says the Aotearoa New Zealand government's decision to ease covid-19 measures at this time is...
NZ’s omicron outbreak: PM Ardern heralds changes to traffic light strategy
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased.
She said the traffic light...
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...
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...
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...
RSF condemns threats, violence against media from NZ’s ‘freedom convoy’ protest
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the threats and violence against news media by protesters during the 16-day anti-covid-19 vaccine mandates...
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,...
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...
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...
Hundreds of NZ health workers unvaccinated facing deadline
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
About 2000 New Zealand district health board workers had not been vaccinated 15 hours before the deadline to...
Northland principal faces ‘vindictive’ abuse for backing vaccine mandate
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter
A Northland high school principal says she has been accused of being "complicit in mass genocide" by people opposed...