Tag: New Zealand
Advocacy group calls on Senator Wong to press Jakarta over latest West Papua atrocities report
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian advocacy group supporting West Papuan self-determination has appealed to Foreign Minister Penny Wong to press Indonesia to halt all military...
NZ election 2023: ‘People power’ alliance wins pledge of 1000 new state houses a year
Asia Pacific Report
Opposition National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis was among three political leaders who made a surprising commitment at a debate last night...
NZ election 2023: National hits back over union ads slamming Luxon
By Russell Palmer
National says a series of attack ads targeting its leader Christopher Luxon funded by the Council of Trade Unions in the Aotearoa...
Ian Powell: Context of the ‘New Washington Consensus’ and China ‘threat’ for New Zealand
POLITICAL BYTES: By Ian Powell
There is a reported apparent rift within cabinet between Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Andrew Little over Aotearoa...
‘The ocean is suffering’ – protesters fume over NZ silence on Fukushima wastewater dump
By Lydia Lewis
Japan yesterday began the decades-long release of more than one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean in defiance...
Owen Wilkes dead since 2005 – but SIS still won’t release his personal file
By Murray Horton, editor of Foreign Control Watchdog
New Zealand's globally renowned peace researcher Owen Wilkes has been dead since 2005, but he is still...