A group of high-profile Wellingtonians are launching a series of events about the future of the city, with the first to feature film director James Cameron. More >>

Government quietly scraps waste minimisation policies

Saturday, 21 December 2024, 6:39 pm | RNZ

The government has quietly cancelled plans to improve recycling and roll out a kerbside food scraps composting scheme. More >>

NZCTU Make Submission In Opposition To Treaty Principles Bill

Saturday, 21 December 2024, 3:00 pm | NZCTU

The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi have submitted against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, slamming the Bill as a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and an attack on tino rangatiratanga and the collective rights of Tangata Whenua. More >>

OECD Report Highlights That More Is Needed

Saturday, 21 December 2024, 2:47 pm | Transparency International NZ

This report reflects that gap in our dealings overseas, and it shows that legislators, the public sector and businesses need to walk the talk. More >>

The Year In Politics: Stories That Dominated The Headlines In 2024

Friday, 20 December 2024, 5:03 pm | RNZ

The year saw nationwide protests, swathes of legislation repealed and introduced, crackdowns on crime and some stern words to local councils. More >>

Community Voices Needed To Challenge Legislative Threats To Māori Wellbeing

Friday, 20 December 2024, 10:35 am | Hapai Te Hauora

The Regulatory Standards Bill and the Oranga Tamariki Bill are both open for public submissions, yet the urgency of these proposed laws remains largely under the radar for many. More >>

PM skipping Waitangi appearance 'a good first step' - hīkoi organiser

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 9:51 pm | RNZ

"There's no point in speaking to ears that will not listen to, minds that will not change," Eru Kapa-Kingi says. More >>

Government's First Paris Agreement Report Fails To Address How It Plans To Hit Targets

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 9:47 pm | RNZ

The report fails to address how it plans to hit its emissions savings targets. More >>

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon Will Not Attend Waitangi At All Next Year

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 9:44 pm | RNZ

The decision has been criticised by iwi leaders and politicians, who say he needs to show leadership. More >>

Former Defence Minister Peeni Henare Calls Vanuatu Flight Woes 'Embarrassing'

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 9:40 pm | RNZ

A Hercules plane carrying urban rescue staff to Vanuatu was stranded in New Caledonia after an engine fault. More >>

Government Legislation On Academic Freedom Sign Of New Hope For Universities

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 8:15 pm | Free Speech Union

Legislation changes announced by the Government today signals that academic freedom can still be restored to university campuses. New Zealand universities have consistently shown they’re not fulfilling their obligations to uphold academic freedom; this ... More >>

GDP Figures No Christmas Present For New Zealand

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 8:10 pm | NZCTU

Data released by Statistics New Zealand today showed a significant slowdown in the economy over the past six months, with GDP falling by 1% in September, and 1.1% in June, said CTU Economist Craig Renney. More >>

New Zealand Economy In Freefall While The Government’s Books Burn

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 8:08 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

The Government needs to take its spending problem seriously to balance the books. Continuing to fiddle whilst the books burn is not a fiscal strategy - Willis missing her targets has the country on course for disaster. More >>

Survey Shows Government Lacks Mandate To Repeal Live Export Ban

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 8:06 pm | SPCA

“Sending live animals on boats into volatile conditions to destinations with poor animal welfare standards is not progressive, lucrative, or likely to stimulate the economy,” says SPCA Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Arnja Dale. More >>

Bill To Increase Penalties For Slavery Welcome, But Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 7:38 pm | World Vision New Zealand

World Vision New Zealand welcomes the introduction of a Private Members’ Bill to increase penalties for slavery offenses, but warns it does not go far enough to address weaknesses in New Zealand’s modern slavery and trafficking laws. More >>

Treaty Principles Bill A Threat To The Rights Of Children In Aotearoa

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 7:10 pm | UNICEF Aotearoa NZ

Teresa Tepania-Ashton, Director of Advocacy at UNICEF Aotearoa, says it is critical that New Zealanders who care about children participate in the submissions process and identify the risk to the rights of tamariki. More >>

GMO Bill Creates More Societal Division

Thursday, 19 December 2024, 9:18 am | Buy Pure

Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) last week completed another two days with Ministers, political leaders, Ministries and primary sector leaders sharing science knowledge, societal concerns, economic impacts and trade findings. More >>

Lake Alice Survivor Realises House Bus Dream With Redress Payment

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 8:34 pm | RNZ

Robyn Dandy plans to use her $150K payment to go on a South Island roadtrip with her pets in honour of the grandson she's lost. More >>

Attorney-General 'Appalled' After Judge And Former Doctor Verbally Abuse Winston Peters At Exclusive Party

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 8:32 pm | RNZ

Attorney-general Judith Collins said she was aware of what happened and was "appalled by it". More >>

Final Decisions On TVNZ Restructure To Be Announced In Coming Days

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 8:24 pm | RNZ

TVNZ's chief executive Jodi O'Donnell appeared before MPs at select committee on Wednesday for its annual review and outlined the big costs for the company. More >>

Lake Alice Payments Discriminatory

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:25 pm | Cooper Legal

“While we applaud the Govt for trying to do the right thing for Lake Alice survivors & in recognising international recommendations, why is this Govt not doing right by all other survivors and recognising domestic recommendations?” Ms Cooper and ... More >>

Minister Needs To Listen To The Evidence On Engineered Stone Ban

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 2:03 pm | NZCTU

“We need to follow Australia’s example and implement a total ban of engineered stone, a dangerous product that is killing workers,” said Polaczuk. More >>

MPs Should Take A Break & Reject Easter Trading Bill

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 1:32 pm | Family First New Zealand

We reject any liberalisation of Easter trading laws and also Anzac and Christmas days because workers deserve this special annual break to spend time with their families. More >>

Te Pāti Māori's Rawiri Waititi says Luxon may be 'drop-nuts' if he doesn't attend Waitangi Day

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 8:51 pm | RNZ

The prime minister not attending Waitangi Day would show he "has no balls and may be a drop-nuts", Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi says. More >>

Chris Trotter: Running Us Off The Rails

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 8:06 pm | The Rail Advocacy Collective

New Zealand will pay a high price for pulling out of this deal – just as it did 64 years ago when the Second National Government tore up the contract its Labour predecessor had signed with British and American interests to establish a large cotton ... More >>

Protesters Disrupt 3rd Reading Of Fast-track Bill

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 6:40 pm | 350 Aotearoa

”The fast-track bill is anti-democratic, anti-climate, and anti-Te Tiriti. Regardless of the bill passing today, thousands of New Zealanders are ready to stop these projects from being built in our communities,” says 350 spokesperson Adam Currie. More >>

HYEFU And BPS Data Shows New Zealand Is Way Off Track

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 3:42 pm | NZCTU

The data showed that the economy is growing more slowly than forecast just six months ago. Next year GDP growth was forecast to 1.7% at Budget, now its 0.5%. GDP is $20bn lower by 2028. Unemployment is higher in every year of the forecast – with 20,000 ... More >>

Immigration Minister Delivers Changes In Time For Christmas

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 3:26 pm | Federated Farmers

"It’s been an incredibly tough few seasons, with huge pressure on farmers who have been unable to find the staff they need to run their businesses." More >>

New Zealanders Be Warned - More Brutal Cuts To Public Services Coming

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 2:03 pm | PSA

"History and now fresh evidence tell us that austerity doesn’t work, but the Government is failing to listen. Today in the Budget Policy Statement it set the stage for further deep and broad cuts which will impact the services New Zealanders need now and in ... More >>

Now We Know Why Nicola Willis Didn’t Want Experts In The Room: Changes OBEGAL Calculation To Appear Less Irresponsible

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 1:52 pm | Taxpayers' Union

“Nicola Willis is guilty of manipulating the fiscal indicators in the same way then Opposition Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis jumped up-and-down about when Grant Robertson changed the way Net Core-Crown Debt was calculated to make the numbers ... More >>

Minimum Wage Announcement “A Pay Cut For The Most Vulnerable”

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 12:01 pm | E Tu

“The Government has made another callous decision which will make in-work poverty even worse in Aotearoa,” E tū Assistant National Secretary, Annie Newman says. More >>

Minimum Wage ‘Increase’ Is An Effective Cut

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 11:05 am | NZCTU

“With inflation forecast at 2% by the Reserve Bank, the new minimum wage rate is an effective cut in real terms and will leave workers worse off. This is the second year in a row where this Govt has made the decision to cut the minimum wage in real ... More >>

Media Should Make Point Of Speaking To The CTU This Afternoon On HYEFU

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 11:03 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Banning the CTU, the Taxpayers’ Union, and groups like Business NZ and the Federated Farmers is not a strategy to get back to surplus. At best, it’s a cheap PR ploy to attempt to control the media narrative. More >>

NZCTU Put Brooke Van Velden On Notice Over WorkSafe Cuts

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 10:30 am | NZCTU

The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi have sent an open letter to Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden, following another round of devastating job cuts at WorkSafe. More >>

Open Letter Urges Govt Not To Accept Appointment Of New Israeli Ambassador

Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 10:26 am | Justice for Palestine

Those who have signed the letter are urging the New Zealand government to not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel until it is prepared to comply with international law. More >>

Government Washes Its Hands Of “Unethical” Plastic Waste Exports

Monday, 16 December 2024, 8:12 pm | Lydia Chai

Chai says the Government’s final decision to reject her petition “gives a lot of reasons for doing nothing”. More >>

Ngāti Kahungunu Submits In Opposition To The Treaty Principles Bill

Monday, 16 December 2024, 7:47 pm | Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc

The Ngāti Kahungunu submission clearly states the reasons why it opposes the Treaty Principles Bill, “due to its inherent contradictions and potential for detrimental consequences. Each principle, while seemingly benign, harbours flaws that necessitate ... More >>

Push For Police To Charge For Presence At Public Events A Deterrent On Free Speech

Monday, 16 December 2024, 3:45 pm | Free Speech Union

Police have a duty to protect the public from physical harm, and the public fund them to do so. Event organisers should not be put off hosting events due to imposed costs from Police. More >>

Open Letter On Importance Of Research In The Social Sciences And Humanities

Monday, 16 December 2024, 3:26 pm | Royal Society Te Aparangi

The role of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, as set out in the Royal Society of New Zealand Act, is to advance and promote science, technology, and the humanities, and to provide expert advice on important public issues to the Government and people ... More >>

Greenpeace Slams Late Release Of Redacted Fast Track Seabed Mining Documents

Monday, 16 December 2024, 2:36 pm | Greenpeace

Over 20,000 people have signed an open letter pledging resistance to companies opting into the fast track, and a further 45,000 have signed a petition calling on the Government to ban seabed mining outright. More >>

Govt Announces No Christmas For Children In Persistent Poverty For The Next 10 Years

Monday, 16 December 2024, 1:50 pm | Child Poverty Action Group

CPAG calls on the current government and all political parties to work towards a future where all tamariki grow up surrounded by loving, thriving whānau within supportive communities where there are resources, opportunities and systems to enable them to ... More >>

NZ police officers' China trip had all the hallmarks of foreign influence operation - expert

Monday, 16 December 2024, 11:31 am | RNZ

The SIS has IDed China as the major source of foreign interference activities - and the police should take heed, Anne-Marie Brady says. More >>

Family Violence Funding Review Could See Services Lose Out - Critics

Monday, 16 December 2024, 11:27 am | RNZ

Labour and the Greens are concerned the government is "pulling away" from existing services, but minister says that's not the case. More >>

Auckland Foodbanks Face Closure, Reducing Services As Funding To Stop

Monday, 16 December 2024, 11:25 am | RNZ

"I'm worried. I know hundreds of thousands of Aucklanders rely on the mission for food," the City Missioner says. More >>

20 Years On: Has The Supreme Court Delivered?

Monday, 16 December 2024, 10:58 am | University of Auckland

Two decades after its creation, is the Supreme Court hearing the right cases and meeting its statutory objectives? More >>

Letter From Winners Of The Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize

Monday, 16 December 2024, 9:31 am | Joint Media Statement

We write to voice our disagreement with the decision to alter the Terms of Reference of the Marsden Fund such that "approximately 50 percent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic benefits to New Zealand". We urge the Government to reconsider this decision. More >>

New Zealand Far-Right Government’s Anti-Democratic “Law And Order” Agenda

Sunday, 15 December 2024, 6:55 pm | Socialist Equality Group

The legislation is part of the far-right government’s sweeping “law and order” agenda targeting the most alienated and vulnerable layers of society, including impoverished youth and welfare beneficiaries. Sooner rather than later, the crackdown will extend ... More >>

Government Agrees To Toll Three New Highways Being Built In The North Island

Saturday, 14 December 2024, 8:58 pm | RNZ

The new highways in the North Island will become the first new toll roads in years. More >>

Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Officially Put On Hold

Friday, 13 December 2024, 6:23 pm | RNZ

The government has put legislation that would force tech giants to pay media companies for journalism on hold. More >>

NZ Young Labour Condemns Assoc Min Of Immigration Decision To Overturn Denial Of Entry To Far-right Commentator Owens

Friday, 13 December 2024, 10:52 am | Young Labour

Immigration New Zealand’s original decision, based on section 15(1)(f) of the Immigration Act following Owens’ denial of entry to Australia, was a lawful and necessary measure to safeguard Aotearoa’s values of inclusivity and manaakitanga. More >>

New Zealand COVID-19 Inquiry Endorses Abandonment Of Elimination Strategy

Thursday, 12 December 2024, 9:02 pm | Socialist Equality Group

The scientific knowledge & resources exist that could eliminate COVID-19 & other preventable diseases. If the elimination strategy initially adopted in New Zealand & China had been implemented on a global scale, the COVID pandemic could have been ... More >>

New Sex Education Curriculum Should Be Age Appropriate And Scientifically Accurate, Women’s Rights Party Says

Thursday, 12 December 2024, 6:23 pm | Women's Rights Party

The current guidelines, which cover 1-10 yrs, are to be replaced by a refreshed curriculum that would define the core knowledge & skills students should learn at each age, & will look at extending compulsory relationships & sexuality education to senior ... More >>

Minister Reverses Visa Denial, Allows Candace Owens Access To New Zealand: Massive Win For Kiwis’ Free Speech

Thursday, 12 December 2024, 3:54 pm | Free Speech Union

Those calling for censorship should take note: denying Owens’ entry into the country has simply widened interest in her. Those who disagree with Owens should channel that into counter speech and peaceful protest – cancellation won’t get us anywhere. More >>