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New Zealand will provide up to $100,000 in aid to Fiji in the wake of floods that have left seven people dead. However the money will go directly to the Red Cross rather than the Fijian Government, which New Zealand has maintained sanctions again...
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Protests against Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza were held in New Zealand’s major cities today. 500 people gathered in Auckland’s Aotea Square at noon and marched to the United States consulate in Customs Street, where they threw...
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Thousands of messages have been send to US president-elect Barack Obama from around the world, including 200 from New Zealand, calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. The messages have been sent to the White House in time for Obama’s...
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Christchurch based National MP Nicky Wagner told The Press today that she has spoken to several taxi drivers and company owners since the murder of driver Abdulrahman Ikhtiari, an Afghan immigrant earlier this month. She said that “Several said...
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According to figures released by Housing New Zealand under the Official Information Act and published in the Sunday Star Times, there are 502 people in New Zealand living in garages, campgrounds, cars, caravans or on the streets. All of these people...
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Activist Simon Oosterman may bring charges against Rob Gilchrist, the man revealed to be a police informer working in political activist groups. Oosterman asked Gilchrist to be a witness in a trial over the police use of pepper spray at anti-Genetic...
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After the recent revelation that the New Zealand police have been infiltrating activist groups for the past decade it is worth examining the country’s history of state spying on peaceful protesters. As political scientist Bryce Edwards has...
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Nicky Hager and Anthony Hubbard have revealed that police officers from the Special Investigation Group (SIG), which was set up to identify terrorism threats and risks to national security, have carried out surveillance and used a paid informer to...
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New Zealand’s controversial new employment law, which from March will allow small employers to fire staff at any time in their first 90 days of employment with no legal course of action available to workers, was passed today.
The law has been...
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Within days of officially becoming government National is planning to push though a law change that would allow employers of 20 or less people to hire and fire staff at will within their first 90 days of work. They have labeled this a “probation”...
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