Tag: Parliament
Waitangi 2024: how NZ’s Tiriti strengthens democracy and checks unbridled power
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan
The ACT Party’s election promise of a referendum for Aotearoa New Zealand to redefine and enshrine the “principles” of the Te...
Charlot Salwai elected 4th prime minister of Vanuatu in three years
By Koroi Hawkins and Don Wiseman
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Sato Kilman has been voted out through a motion-of-no-confidence in the country’s Parliament in Port Vila...
NZ election 2023: From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power broker – the rise and rise of Te Pāti Māori
ANALYSIS: By Annie Te One
In his maiden speech to Parliament in 2020, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi told his fellow MPs:
You know what...
Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or favour
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier
Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take...
20 MPs walk out as PNG’s Tkatchenko apologises for ‘media trolls’ comment
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The last time Papua New Guinea heard “there is a stranger in the House” was when two men walked...
The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan
Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in...