This weekend thousands of people from 12 centres across the country are rallying and marching again to demand our government call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The numbers are growing rapidly each week.

The details of the rallies and marches around the country are on the Palestine solidarity facebook page here

GPJA News Week Ending 11-11-23

NUCLEAR-FREE NZ

Nicky Hager (Newsroom): Revealed: A startling secret of NZ’s nuclear free policy

Aaron Dahman (Stuff): Newsable: Is the Pacific’s anti-nuclear stance under threat?

PALESTINE

SCOOP: Kawea Te Rongo Stand In Solidarity With Journalists Covering Gaza Conflict As Death Toll Climbs

John Minto (Daily Blog): Fabricated claims of anti-semitism from the pro-Israel lobby

John Minto: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”

Gordon Campbell: On the blockade against Chloe Swarbrick’s right to speak freely about Gaza

Artists appeal https://artists4ceasefire.nz/

RNZ: Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick defends ‘river to the sea’ chant used at pro-Palestine rally

RNZ: Palestinian ambassador wants New Zealand to ‘play a leadership role’ and ask for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Trent Doyle (Newshub): Labour’s Phil Twyford shouted down at Palestine rally in Auckland
Corazon Miller (1News): ‘This has to stop’ – Palestinians and Israelis in NZ seek peaceful resolution

Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinofff): New Zealand’s fractured response to the Israel-Hamas war

Paula Whetu Jone (NZ Herald Paywalled|): Israel-Hamas war: New film follows Kiwi’s lifeline for Palestinian children

Phil Twyford: Civil discussion on Israel Hamas war vital, says Labour MP Phil Twyford

Melania Watson (Newshub): Pro-Palestine supporters light up Auckland War Memorial Museum in red and green
Sophie Barclay (Spinoff): It’s OK to talk about Palestine: a letter to my alma mater

RNZ: Palestinian supporters protest outside Israeli Embassy in Wellington

MAORI

Jon Stokes (MZH) Election 2023: Bread and butter issues turned Māori away from Labour

Tema Hemi (Whakaata Māori): Activists block big polluters on Parihaka Day

John Tamihere (Herald): The election results give Te Pāti Māori the mandate of Māori

Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Race relations among most divisive issues in election – poll

Amy Ridout (Stuff): A sense of hope: becoming a better Tiriti partner

RACISM

Teuila Fuatai (E-Tangata): Doctor from the ‘dumb class’

ECONOMY, INEQUALITY, RESERVE BANK

Susan St John (The Conversation): If NZ’s new government wants a simple fix to improve child poverty, here’s what it should do

Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Why it’s more expensive to be poor
Max Rashbrooke (Post): To overcome our divisions, we must first learn to see each other (paywalled)

Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Reserve Bank to prepare and maintain a plan for dealing with every deposit taker in case it fails

Bridie Witton (Stuff): Will China’s economic slowdown destroy provincial New Zealand?

Julia Gabel (NZ Herald): Nine charts explaining the key issues National and Christopher Luxon is inheriting

Sapeer Mayron and Kevin Norquay (Post): Lost at the supermarket: where did our buying power go?

Esther Taunton (Stuff): BNZ profits climb to more than $1.5 billion
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Power gentailers’ dominance helps consign 300,000 people to energy hardship – report

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Karly Burch (Newsroom): NZ should rethink stance on Japan’s nuclear wastewater

Teuila Fuatai (E-Tangata): NZ’s slide into sinister Pacific power play

HOUSING

Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Cost of living: New report claims it’s now impossible for median-income first home buyers to save deposit without help

Conor Whitten (1News): ‘Sleeping in my car next to a $15m house’ – Life in Queenstown’s housing crisis

Greg Ninness (Interest): Residential rents up an average of $40 a week in September year, Auckland rents up $60 a week

HEALTH

Fiona Ellis (ODT): Cancer had become terminal by the time scan given

Mare Haimona-Riki (Whakaata Māori): National/Act restoring prescription fees a ‘huge step backwards’

Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Trainee doctors skipping meals and GP visits to make ends meet

Ian Powell: No pressure Dr Reti but starting on the right foot is critical

The Conversation: Mixed-gender hospital rooms are on the rise in New Zealand, but the practice is unsafe and unethical

Children’s vaccinations legal fight: Family Court judge orders three kids receive jabs against mother’s wishes

Jeremy Wilkinson (NZ Herald): Children’s vaccinations legal fight: Family Court judge orders three kids receive jabs against mother’s wishes

WORKERS

RNZ: Early childhood centre teachers to strike on Wednesday
Richard Wagstaff (Post): Bringing back 90-day trials is not supported by evidence

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles & James Higham (The Conversation): Whakaari/White Island court case will change the level of accepted risk in NZ’s tourism industry

Nicolas Jones (NZ Herald Paywalled): Silicosis lung disease: Dangerous, dusty conditions found at engineered stone workshops, damning Ministry of Health-ordered report reveals

RNZ: Senior hospital doctors and dentists union on point of settling pay dispute

SIOUXSIE WILES CASE

Isaac Davison (Herald): Dr Siouxsie Wiles case: University of Auckland managers grew uncomfortable with scientist’s celebrity status, court hears
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Siouxsie Wiles v University of Auckland – Why all businesses should watch this case closely

Melanie Earley (Stuff): Covid-19 commentator Siouxsie Wiles received ‘tsunami of abuse’, court hears

Sasha Borissenko (NZ Herald – Paywalled): What’s at stake as Covid expert Siouxsie Wiles takes on Auckland University in the Employment Court this week

LOBBYING

Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Lobbying and communications firm Senate’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ contracts at Commerce Commission revealed
Bryce Edwards: Should government departments be giving contracts to lobbying firms?

TRANSPORT

Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): ‘Outrageous’ stalling on sustainable transport projects – advocates

Malcolm McCracken (Better things are possible): Why we can’t rely solely on the Emissions Trading Scheme and need to invest in transport choice

EDUCATION

Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): Why an ‘amazing’ but ‘dying breed’ of teachers is on strike today

RNZ: Schools struggling to deal with sexual violence

Mike Grimshaw (Plain Sight): It’s about critiquing power, stupid!…
Ananish Chaudhuri (Newsroom): University underfunding is compounded by their greater corporatisation

JUSTICE

RNZ: Police working with justice sector partners to address remand times

Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): Women prisoners transferred to other sites still not returned despite High Court ruling

CLIMATE

Rod Oram (Newsroom): Luxon is about to inflict reputational damage with oil and gas exploration

Rachel Judkins (Spinoff): A warm weekend at the summer camp for activists

RNZ: 2023 ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years – EU scientists

Marc Daadler (Newsroom): Vanuatu urges National not to restart offshore oil and gas

Scoop: Fonterra’s New Scope 3 Emissions Reduction Roadmap Just "polishing A Turd" – Greenpeace

Jarrod Gilbert (NZ Herald – Paywalled): The reform agenda was never going to last

MEDIA
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Keeping it confidential to properly protect sources