Nationwide marches, rallies and vigils will take place across the country again this weekend despite the passing of yesterday’s parliamentary motion supporting a ceasefire in Gaza.
The details of the rallies and marches around the country are on the PSNA facebook page here.
NEW GOVERNMENT
Max Rashbrooke (Post): Watch out for the rise of conservative conspiracy theories (paywalled)
RNZ: Foreign Minister Winston Peters to call for ceasefire in Gaza
MAORI
Serena Solomon (Guardian): New Zealand: thousands protest against new government policies that unravel Māori gains
Herald: The best photos of Tuesday’s Te Pāti Māori protests across New Zealand
Margaret Mutu (Newsroom): Enhancing the mana of Te Tiriti
Michelle Duff (Guardian): ‘A massive unravelling’: fears for Māori rights as New Zealand government reviews treaty
Catherine Delahunty (E-Tangata): The great leap backwards
1News/RNZ: ‘Our people are ready to fight’ – Rawiri Waititi on protests
1News: Live: People march as ‘Nationwide Māori Action’ hits towns, cities
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): ‘We’ve got to be talked to, not walked over’ – John Tamihere ahead of nationwide protests
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Kīngitanga issues ‘royal proclamation’ for Māori to assemble in face of new Govt policies
Gordon Campbell: On The Government’s Assault On Maori
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Hīkoi leader promises more protests: ‘We will not be silenced’
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Māori are being shafted and we can’t accept that’s okay
WORKERS
Whakaata Māori: ‘Double standards’ government should issue visas to Palestinians – John Minto
Scoop: Toi Mata Hauora ASMS Completes Pay Negotiations With Te Whatu Ora – Achieves CPI Increase
Scoop: The Government Must Fund Care Workers Before Landlords
RNZ: Te Whatu Ora pays back staff $246m of owed $2b
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): ‘We’ve got to be talked to, not walked over’ – John Tamihere ahead of nationwide protests
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Reserve Bank says Govt’s change to remit means unemployment will rise
Ethan Griffiths (Open Justice Reporting): Fonterra worker sacked for not wearing a mask, despite medical exemption, awarded $30k
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Contractors’ rights still unclear in National, Act coalition agreement (paywalled)
PALESTINE SOLIDARITY
1News: Israel-Gaza conflict: Helen Clark critical of Winston Peters’ call
Trent Doyle (Newshub): Labour’s Damian O’Connor labels Israel’s actions in Gaza as ‘genocide’ during Parliament debate
Radio NZ: Gaza ceasefire debate: Opposition pleas for stronger statement largely rejected
Scoop: A Cowardly, Anti-Palestinian Parliamentary Motion
Scoop: Waiheke Local Board Demand An Immediate And Permanent Ceasefire In Palestine
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): ‘Condemning them to death’: NZ family plead to Winston Peters for help getting relatives out of Gaza
Gray Gibson (Newshub): Former Prime Minister Helen Clark among ‘The Elders’ calling for urgent review of foreign military assistance to Israel
RNZ: Hundreds of protesters at Parliament to call for ceasefire in Gaza
COST OF LIVING, ECONOMY
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): What really counts as poor in New Zealand now?
Newstalk ZB: "No more generous": Child Poverty advocates desire more from Working for Families
RNZ: Cost of living pressures drive drop in retail spending
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): Early investment key to ending disadvantage, tackling child poverty – researchers
RNZ: Household costs forecast to rise $70 a week on average next year – ASB report
IMMIGRATION
Mildred Armah (Stuff): Migrants left with no work struggle with mountain of debt and no hope of paying it off
Juan Zarama (Post): They make New Zealand their home, and then they have to leave (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): How about some long-term thinking and planning on immigration?
HOUSING
Justin Hu (1News): Public housing waitlist spikes, over 25,000 households waiting
RNZ: Housing market: Borrowers warned higher mortgage rates to last longe
Spinoff: The worrying rise of retired renters
CLIMATE – ENVIRONMENT
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): NZ approach to cutting emissions criticised by climate researchers
Spinoff: How New Zealand could stop producing fossil fuels
Oxfam: NGOs and unions unite behind call for urgent phaseout of fossil fuel production in Aotearoa
Marnie Picket & Simon Hales – Spinoff: The government’s extreme environmental policies will take us back decades
Rod Oram (Newsroom): NZ wins COP28 ‘fossil’ award for revoking offshore oil exploration ban
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): Who needs an economy if we burn to the ground? (paywalled)
Gary Taylor (Newsroom): New Government crashes environment
Lydia Lewis (RNZ): ‘It’s tragic’: Palau’s Whipps Jr slams NZ govt’s oil and gas exploration plans
Jaime Lyth (Herald): Auckland luxury cars targeted by climate change protesters
RNZ: Fonterra missing from list of global dairy companies pledging to tackle methane emissions
Olivia Wanna (Stuff): After dithering, New Zealand joins world pact to triple green power
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): NZ’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine
RNZ: Activists call on NZ govt to do more for West Papua
HEALTH
Rob Campbell (Herald): Health equity cannot be achieved by Te Whatu Ora
Gordon Campbell: On the government’s smokefree laws debacle
Herald: Waikato University med school: Act Party requests new costings
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
RNZ: Asset sales not the solution to council debt – local government scholar
Jessica McCarthy (Stuff): Newsable: Rates rises higher because Three Waters was axed, mayors say
OTHER
Melissa Stokes (1News): Newsmakers: The Labour MP who fought to decriminalise gay sex in NZ
REVIEWS
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Ryan Bodman: Telling the story of rugby league in Aotearoa
Scoop: Exploring The Shadows Of Colonialism: Days Of Darkness Returns In A New
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