Tag: Winston Peters
Waitangi Day 2024: NZ government denies it’s ‘delegitimising’ Māori
RNZ News
Aotearoa New Zealand coalition government leaders have rejected allegations they are degrading tino rangatiratanga, saying the proposed Treaty Principles Bill will not "delegitimise"...
Waitangi: Luxon faces questions after day of speeches at Treaty Grounds
RNZ News
The crowd booed a combative Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and drowned out Associate Treaty Minister David Seymour, while Prime Minister Christopher Luxon...
Few ‘rotten apples’ shouldn’t prevent NZ aid to thousands of innocent...
RNZ News
New Zealand would likely continue funding the United Nations agency delivering aid in Palestine if concerns about its staff were dealt with, the...
Luxon warned over ‘meddling’ on Te Tiriti – ‘Māori will not...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been warned that Māori will not sit by without a fight if the government attempts to...
Former Pacific minister ‘lights fire of spirit’ supporting Māori at unity...
By Ruci Farrell of Pacific Media Network
Pacific peoples joined with tangata whenua at the weekend, calling on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to uphold...
NZ foreign policy critics warn over ‘inflaming’ Red Sea crisis, call...
Asia Pacific Report
A group of foreign policy critics alarmed at the Aotearoa New Zealand government’s "undemocratic decision" to step up support for US-led strikes...
IFJ condemns deputy PM’s comments as threat to NZ press freedom
Pacific Media Watch
Journalists and media workers have criticised comments made by Aotearoa New Zealand's newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters -- who claimed that...
Peters has track record but NZ aid policy still hard to...
ANALYSIS: By Terence Wood
In the wake of New Zealand’s recent election, and subsequent coalition negotiations, Winston Peters has emerged as New Zealand’s Foreign Minister...
Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence
RNZ News
Former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson has defended Aotearoa New Zealand's public interest journalism fund that his government started during the covid-19 pandemic, after...
NZ election 2023: ‘Too cavalier’ – scientists call out Peters over...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been spreading misleading climate information at public meetings during the Aotearoa...
NZ election 2023: Police investigate after invasion of Te Pāti Māori...
RNZ News
New Zealand police are investigating after the home of Te Pāti Māori election candidate Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke was invaded, vandalised, and a threatening letter...
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...
Rogue poll or not, all the signs point to a tectonic...
By Richard Shaw, of Massey University
Strong team. More jobs. Better economy. So say the National Party’s campaign hoardings. Only thing is, last Sunday’s Newshub-Reid...
NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the...
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month...
Papua, Pacific youth and climate change to mark NZ conference
By Michael Andrew
Pacific diplomats, academics and youth leaders will gather in Auckland, New Zealand, this week to discuss security, economic development and other pressing...
Indonesia to make major Pacific pitch at NZ expo amid human...
By RNZ Pacific
Indonesia will use a landmark business and trade exposition next week in New Zealand to launch a fresh diplomatic push in the Pacific,...
More aid to Solomon Islands from Australia and New Zealand
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Both the Australian and New Zealand governments have pledged to continue and increase financial aid to the Solomon Islands.
Australian Prime Minister...
Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St...
Ardern mission for post-Gita visit to Tonga, Samoa, Niue and Cook...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says the New Zealand government’s Pacific Mission will take place early next month and travel to...