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New Zealand politics

May 2024

  • New Zealand's highest mountain Mount Cook - also known by its Maori name of Aoraki. New Zealand’s government has announced a range of cuts to climate projects in its budget.

    Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to climate policies

    Government of Christopher Luxon has made sweeping cuts to climate projects in its first budget, with no new significant environmental investments

April 2024

  • Only the route and ruins remain from the Denniston Incline which transported coal from a 600 meter high plateau to the coast.<br>HEH7T4 Only the route and ruins remain from the Denniston Incline which transported coal from a 600 meter high plateau to the coast.

    New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous

    Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis
    Proposed ‘fast-track’ law could see conservation concerns ignored and projects once rejected for environmental reasons given the green light

February 2024

  • New Zealand's National Party's leader Christopher Luxon addresses his supporters in Auckland.

    New Zealand needs a new vision for the social security system – not more flipflopping

    Max Rashbrooke
  • Shock in New Zealand as Green party MP Efeso Collins dies after charity run

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    New Zealand Greens party MP Efeso Collins dies six days after delivering maiden speech – video

  • Green party MP Efeso Collins

    Shock in New Zealand as Green party MP Efeso Collins dies after charity run

  • Devhante Marsters-Herewini holds a flag on the Waitangi bridge in Waitangi, New Zealand

    Amid jeers and boos, strained Māori relations with government dominate national holiday

  • In 30 seconds
    New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 seconds

  • New Zealand steps up interest in Aukus as Pacific security concerns grow

January 2024

  • Hakaa in support of Hone Sadler at Pohiri

    Thousands of Māori gather to tell New Zealand’s government: you cannot marginalise us

    Government accused of using fear to roll back decades of progress for Māori and ‘reinforce colonial ideologies’ at huge indigenous meeting on Saturday
  • New Zealand Māori mark Waitangi Day national holiday at Waitangi in 2019.

    New Zealand’s Māori king has called a rare nationwide meeting. Here’s why

    Māori leaders and others are expected to attend a rare national meeting due to concerns about the new government’s policies on indigenous rights

    • New Zealand government rejects Ardern-era bid to lower voting age

    • Golriz Ghahraman resigns as New Zealand Greens MP after shoplifting claims

    • New Zealand Greens MP Golriz Ghahraman steps aside from portfolios after shoplifting claim

December 2023

  • Australia year in review 2023
    Australia's 2023 in review: the stories that shook the nation – video

    From the dramatic referendum vote to Matilda's World Cup mania, here's a look back at (nearly) everything that happened in 2023, in just six minutes
  • Westhaven Marina, and Sky Tower, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand<br>EP27AX Westhaven Marina, and Sky Tower, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

    Labour failed but New Zealand can’t put a wealth tax ‘back in the bottle’

    Max Rashbrooke
    Labour party couldn’t ‘sell’ the tax in the last election but the policy won’t fade away as global concern over wealth inequality deepens

    • ‘Charles’ or ‘skin rash’? Māori MPs’ oath of allegiance to king sparks translation debate

    • Christopher Luxon’s new coalition struggles with self-inflicted crises – but it has time to recover

      Henry Cooke

    • ‘A massive unravelling’: fears for Māori rights as New Zealand government reviews treaty

November 2023

  • cigarette butts

    New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts

  • New Zealand prime minister elect Christopher Luxon (centre) watches as his coalition partners, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters (left) and ACT leader David Seymour shake hands

    New Zealand’s slapdash new government has no vision – only a plan to take us backwards

    Lamia Imam
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