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Worsening Unemployment, Hunger And Homelessness In New Zealand

Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group

Every party in parliament is responsible for the social disaster that is unfolding. More >>

Trump Moves Toward Pacific 'Not Surprising,' Collins Says

Friday, 21 February 2025, 7:01 pm | RNZ

The Defence Minister says she has not been entirely taken by surprise by the US's pivot away from security backstop to Europe towards the Indopacific. More >>

Strong New Principles Signal A Return Of Free Speech In The Public Service

Friday, 21 February 2025, 3:40 pm | Free Speech Union

For too long, political and cultural ideologies have held our public service captive, fostering an environment of self-censorship and removing a vital tool for error correction: freedom of speech. More >>

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Poor Data Privacy A Problem Throughout The Public Sector

Friday, 21 February 2025, 2:30 pm | Taxpayers' Union

The public service has an appallingly lax attitude towards data privacy” said Sam Warren, a spokesman for the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. More >>

Public Agencies 'Finding It Unaffordable To Increase Pay Ranges'

Thursday, 20 February 2025, 8:46 pm | RNZ

Automatic pay rises are under threat, after chief executives were sent a warning. More >>

'Reset' Needed With Cook Islands, Winston Peters Says

Thursday, 20 February 2025, 8:44 pm | RNZ

Foreign Minister Winston Peters wants to 'reset' New Zealand's relationship with Cook Islands. More >>

Statement On Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s Double Standards In Engagement

Thursday, 20 February 2025, 7:20 pm | Palestine Forum of New Zealand

By selectively engaging with certain communities while excluding others, Prime Minister Luxon is failing to uphold NZ values. We urge him to end this double standard and meet with Palestinian representatives in good faith. More >>

Independent Police Complaints Authority’s Proposals For New Protest Laws Are Dangerous

Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 9:07 pm | Poneke Anti-fascist Coalition

There is certainly plenty of room for better police training for dealing with protest activity that starts with a rights-based approach to ensuring people can fully exercise their human rights. More >>

NZCTU Welcomes Passage Of Wage Theft Bill

Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 9:05 pm | NZCTU

“We are thrilled that this Bill is making its way through the House and looks set to become law,” said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President Richard Wagstaff. More >>

Winston Peters, Shane Jones Again Attack Migrant Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March

Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 7:46 pm | RNZ

Rather than apologise, Winston Peters indicated he will seek to update Parliament's standing orders. More >>

Manurewa Marae Inquiry: Waipareira Trust Targeted For Being Māori - Tamihere

Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 7:41 pm | RNZ

But the Waipareira Trust CEO says there's no evidence of wrong doing and the group is being targeted for being Māori. More >>

New Crisis Working Group A Sign Of Desperation By Health Minister

Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 2:25 pm | PSA

"This is a crisis of the Government’s own making and the unit is another sign of desperation," said PSA acting national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>

Where In The World Have NZDF Staff Been Deployed?

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 9:40 pm | RNZ

The PM says the government would consider sending peacekeepers to Ukraine if a ceasefire was reached. More >>

Immigration Does Not Know How Many Daman Kumar-like Cases There Are

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 9:38 pm | RNZ

Immigration authorities do not know how many children have been deported because their parents did not have residence when they were born. More >>

The Detail: Is NZ's Health Leadership In Crisis?

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 9:30 pm | RNZ

New Health Minister Simeon Brown is presiding over a list of resignations from high-ranking health officials that some say is a "bloodbath". What's going on? More >>

Findings Of Inquiry Into Protection Of Personal Information Released

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 3:46 pm | Public Service Commission

The purpose was to establish the facts and provide an independent assessment of government agency activity in relation to allegations that personal data may have been misused during the 2023 General Election. More >>

Two Reports Show Privacy Must Be At The Heart Of Trust In Government

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 3:37 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster said he is carefully reviewing the referrals raised in the two reports. That work will be done in the context the Privacy Act and the need to ensure individuals’ rights to privacy is protected and respected. More >>

Telehealth Staff Cuts Would Reduce Access To Virtual Healthcare

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 1:58 pm | PSA

The proposed cuts would see only two full time Telehealth data and digital roles, and one Planning, Funding and Outcomes (PFO) role remain, reduced from 17 Telehealth support roles (including vacant roles). Roles proposed to be cut include Telehealth ... More >>

Revealed: Health NZ’s $4 Million Additional Funding For Te Kurahuna ‘change Agents’

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 1:39 pm | Taxpayers' Union

The Taxpayers’ Union is calling for Ministers to end funding for Te Kurahuna programmes and workshop grifters that have received millions in taxpayer funding, despite the Government’s supposed focus on cutting costs. More >>

National Iwi Chairs Forum Raises Urgent Concerns To United Nations Over Legislative Threats To Indigenous & Human Rights

Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 5:34 am | Maranga Mai Working Group

The Forum has raised concerns regarding the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and the Regulatory Standards Bill, which, if enacted, will radically undermine existing human rights protections, Indigenous rights, and constitutional safeguards ... More >>

Winston Peters Says Whangārei Fluoridation Mandate A 'Despotic Soviet-era Disgrace'

Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:56 pm | Susan Botting - Local Democracy Reporter

Making a council fluoridate its water is being slammed by New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters. More >>

New Zealand-born Teen's Deportation To India Paused At Last Minute

Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:46 pm | RNZ

The family of the 18-year-old Daman Kumar, who has never set foot in India, have appealed to Associate Immigration Minister Chris Penk. More >>

The Beehive Doors Are Shut To The CTU

Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:39 pm | RNZ

The Minister for Workplace Relations won't meet with the Council for Trade Unions. More >>

Tech Agencies Lawyer Up After Claim They Failed To Protect Jacinda Ardern From ‘Violence, Misogyny’

Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:37 pm | RNZ

Hundreds of people called the former prime minister vile and dehumanising things online. Internet safety agencies did nothing - then called in the lawyers. More >>

Some Good Conservation News

Monday, 17 February 2025, 6:04 pm | EDS

An additional $13 million will be invested in tourism infrastructure, including upgrading huts and resolving the backlog in Milford Sound concessions. More >>

No Tolerance For The Intolerant

Monday, 17 February 2025, 5:55 pm | Poneke Anti-fascist Coalition

The reality is that we have no obligation to tolerate the intolerant. They are using violence to shut down and silence others. The result of tolerating intolerant views is the loss of everyone’s freedom of speech except for the one who most effectively ... More >>

Minister's View Not The Experience Of Schools, Say Principals

Monday, 17 February 2025, 1:26 pm | NZ Principals Federation

NZPF called for a slowdown of the curriculum change, asking for one subject at a time, so that teachers and principals could be fully trained and feel confident and competent to implement the changes, New Zealand Principals’ Federation (NZPF) President ... More >>

Together for Te Tiriti creators submit on Treaty Principles Bill today

Monday, 17 February 2025, 11:04 am | ActionStation

ActionStation Director, Kassie Hartendorp says that the Treaty Principles Bill has galvanised the biggest movement in support of Te Tiriti in modern history. More >>

Unused EV Charger Sell-Off Highlights Wellington Council’s Ineptitude

Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:55 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

While it is in the interests of Wellington ratepayers to sell off this subsidy for the rich, it is unfortunate that it has come to this point. The council should have never spent a penny on this programme, and the $3.4 million spent is a flagrant abuse ... More >>

New Zealand Government Refuses To Condemn Trump’s Gaza Takeover

Monday, 17 February 2025, 8:45 am | Socialist Equality Group

New Zealand’s alignment with the White House is further underscored by its refusal to oppose Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC). More >>

Jewish Groups Condemn Luxon Meeting With NZ Jewish Council

Sunday, 16 February 2025, 6:59 pm | Dayenu

The Jewish Council’s proposals are divisive, contrary to New Zealand’s human rights framework, and ignore the rights of other ethnic minorities in Aotearoa. More >>

CAFT Seriously Concerned About The Motivation, Process & Statements Of The Ministers Promoting The Fast-Track

Sunday, 16 February 2025, 6:55 pm | CAFT - Communities Against the Fast Track

"This is shocking, and astounding," says Augusta Macassey-Pickard, spokesperson for the group. "We knew that this process was rushed, and flawed, but this is another level of compromised." More >>

Former Aid Minister In Clark-Anderton Govt Slams NZ Interference With Cook Island Sovereignty Re China Agreement

Sunday, 16 February 2025, 2:34 pm | Hon Matthew Robson

“My job as Associate-Minister for Foreign Affairs responsible for International Aid was supposed to be to use Aid as a lever to control former colonies, official or unofficial colonies such as Tonga, or UN mandates, for the interest of New Zealand More >>

Environmental Groups Clarify Qualities Of Stewardship Land In Meeting With Prime Minister

Sunday, 16 February 2025, 2:14 pm | Environmental Defence Society

The Minister of Conservation is expected to complete a review of some 644,000 ha of stewardship land on the West Coast later this year. More >>

Environmental Protection Authority Will End Up Defaulting On Loan If Too Few Developers Use Govt's Fast-Track Process

Saturday, 15 February 2025, 2:30 pm | RNZ

It plans to repay the loan over five years using application levies from would-be beneficiaries of the shortened route planning approval. More >>

A Taonga Of Waitangi - Inside The Forum Tent

Friday, 14 February 2025, 9:27 pm | RNZ

Away from the tense scenes on the paepae, under a closely guarded canvas tent, te iwi Māori do the real work of Waitangi: talking. We were invited inside to listen. More >>

Free Speech Union Announces Four Speakers For National Tours In 2025

Friday, 14 February 2025, 8:53 pm | Free Speech Union

By bringing these global voices to the fight for free expression in New Zealand, we’ll continue to protect and expand our culture of free speech, says Nathan Seiuli, the Free Speech Union's Events Manager. More >>

“Poor Decision-making Making Us Poorer” - Kiwis $12,700 Worse Off Than Treasury Predictions

Friday, 14 February 2025, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“The reality is we’re getting poorer. The government this year is leaning heavy on chasing economic growth, which is absolutely the right thing to do.” More >>

Speech By Secretary To The Treasury Iain Rennie, 'Bending Two Curves: NZ's Intertwined Economic And Fiscal Challenges'

Friday, 14 February 2025, 9:47 am | The Treasury

The crux of my message today is that New Zealand needs to bend two curves. One is the long-term economic growth trajectory, which needs to bend upwards to expand our productive capacity and national real incomes. The second is our net public debt ... More >>

Brooke Van Velden Completely Undermines Personal Grievance System

Friday, 14 February 2025, 9:24 am | NZCTU

Employers are being encouraged to disregard procedural fairness and natural justice. The changes will remove the ability of workers to receive compensation on the grounds of humiliation, loss of dignity and injured feelings if it can be proved a worker ... More >>

Frontline Mental Health Cash Used For Controversial Fund

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 8:51 pm | RNZ

Critics say the money would have been better spent training more workers, including much-needed psychiatrists. More >>

Winston Peters And Gideon Sa'ar Speak On Importance Of Gaza Ceasefire

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 8:48 pm | RNZ

Both ministers have confirmed they shared a phone call on Thursday morning, with the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement due to expire next month. More >>

MPs To Review Parliament's Rules After Land Rover Stunt

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 8:40 pm | RNZ

MPs are going to take another look at Parliament's rules, after ACT leader David Seymour drove a land rover up the steps outside. More >>

New Zealand Government Alarmed By Cook Islands Deal With China

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 8:00 pm | Socialist Equality Group

The regional imperialist powers, including Australia, New Zealand and France have maintained neo-colonial control over the Southwest Pacific for more than a century, keeping the fragile island nations in a state of dependency with conditions of poverty ... More >>

Public Submissions Open On The Māori Purposes Bill

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 5:27 pm | Maori Affairs Committee

A Māori Purposes Bill is an omnibus bill that enables minor, technical, and non-controversial amendments to legislation relating to Māori affairs. This Māori Purposes Bill aims to modernise some legislation relating to Māori Affairs. More >>

Financial Statements Of The Government Of New Zealand For The Six Months Ended 31 December 2024

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 12:35 pm | The Treasury

The December results are reported against forecasts based on the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update 2024 (HYEFU 2024), published on 17 December 2024, and the results for the same period for the previous year. More >>

Axing 63 Roles At Callaghan Innovation Will Drive Essential Skills Out Of The Country

Thursday, 13 February 2025, 9:32 am | PSA

Cabinet papers released alongside the science reform announcements stated that the Minister would conduct a review of capability within Callaghan Innovation that could be retained and transferred elsewhere. However, this review resulted in minimal change. More >>