New Zealand

Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty On Whales’ Rights Could Change Laws

February 23, 2026 Katie Surma, Scheer Post. Create! Animal Rights, Indigenous Activism, New Zealand, Rights of Nature, whales

In one of his final acts before his death in 2024, Māori King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero helped galvanize Pacific Indigenous leaders to sign a landmark declaration recognizing whales’ rights. Now that effort could shape national law: New Zealand legislators this month introduced a bill grounded in the declaration, affirming whales’ rights to migrate, maintain natural behaviors and culture, and live in a healthy environment with damaged habitats restored. The bill, introduced by a member of Parliament from the Green Party, Teanau Tuiono, would recognize whales as legal persons, a status already held by corporations and other nonhuman entities.

With Five Eyes On China, FBI Bulks Up In New Zealand

August 8, 2025 Mick Hall, Consortium News. Resist! FBI, Five Eyes, Law Enforcement, New Zealand

The opening of a Federal Bureau of Investigations standalone office in New Zealand has caused widespread opposition, sparking a protest outside a U.S. consulate and vows by opposition parties to have it closed. F.B.I. Director Kash Patel announced his organisation’s upgraded presence in the South Pacific nation on July 31, during a visit to Wellington, standing alongside senior government officials in its parliamentary building, The Beehive. He told media: “Some of the most important global issues of our times are the ones that New Zealand and America work on together — countering the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] in the Indo PACOM theatre, countering the narcotics trade, working together against cyber-intrusions and ransomware operations and, most importantly, protecting our respective citizenry.” The F.B.I. operates legats, or legal attaches, across the world, allowing the organisation to coordinate with domestic law enforcement agencies, government officials and intelligence partners.

State Power, Corporate Power Or ‘Little Powers’?

July 13, 2025 Christine Dann, Resilience. Educate! Democracy, Energy, Exploitation, New Zealand

As I write, New Zealand is also facing the biggest sucker of electrical energy ever created – digital data storage and delivery. This was bad enough when it was being sent directly to electricity-powered digital ‘appliances’ (phones, personal and commercial computers, screens of all kinds),9) but in 2023 a new and extremely energy-intensive function was introduced – machine learning, commonly known as AI. It is extremely difficult to get accurate data on the contribution of different industries to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as each one has an obvious interest in disguising how big their contribution is.

How The Rights Of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law And Culture

June 2, 2025 Dana Zartner, Resilience. Strategize! Colombia, Environment, Environmental Justice, Lake Erie, New Zealand, Rights of Nature

The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The cloud formations drift in and out, shaping the weather. There are several Māori stories related to the creation of Aotearoa’s geography. One tells of four mountain warriors who lived in the interior of the North Island: Tongariro, Taranaki, Tauhara, and Pūtauaki. Two of them, Tongariro and Taranaki, were in love with a maiden mountain, Pīhanga, and they fought a mighty battle over her affections. Taranaki was defeated, and in shame and sadness, he left the center of the island.

The Maori People’s Ongoing Battle For Self-Determination

December 31, 2024 Otis Grotewohl, Workers' World. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Maori, New Zealand, Sovereignty, Treaties

People within the Indigenous Māori community of “New Zealand” have been protesting a racist bill that was recently introduced by that country’s right-wing government. On Nov. 14, Minister of Regulation David Seymour introduced a bill known as the “Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill” or the “Treaty Principles Bill.” The controversial bill would reopen a historic treaty, signed in 1840, known to the Māori people as “Te Tiriti o Waitangi,” commonly referred to as the “Treaty of Waitangi.” The binding agreement is part of New Zealand’s national Constitution, and it features terms and conditions that grant land rights and special recognition to the Māori people.

Why I’m Protesting Outside The Aerospace Summit In Ōtautahi

September 23, 2024 Aurora Garner-Randolph, The Press. Resist! Aerospace, New Zealand, Nuclear Weapons, Space, Wars and Militarism

When I tell someone I’m going to protest against the New Zealand Aerospace Summit, they often react with confusion. People ask hesitantly: “What’s wrong with aerospace? I thought that was just GPS satellites and space missions!” And I don’t blame them. The aerospace industry does huge amounts of public relations work to paint itself as a benevolent, science-focused industry, and it's been pretty successful in its greenwashing efforts. The summit, hosted in Ōtautahi on September 23-24, is themed Aerospace for Good, its website flooded with buzzwords like “sustainability” and “diverse“. But beneath this glossy corporate veneer lies a violent truth about aerospace.

Global Indigenous Leaders Condemn New Zealand Treatment Of Māori

September 11, 2024 Indigenous Environmental Network. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Maori, New Zealand, Treaties

A collective of global Indigenous leaders and environmentalists have expressed their extreme concern regarding the Treaty Principles Bill as the New Zealand government presents it to the cabinet. They express their solidarity with Māori and call upon the government to act in good faith and with respect for the treaty “upon which the legitimacy of their existence rests”, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The statement of solidarity was endorsed at the Protecting Mother Earth Conference, held by The Indigenous Environmental Network and supported by the Indigenous embassy Tonatierra in Eastern Cherokee Nation (co-existent with North Carolina) 1-4 August 2024.

Opening The Devil’s Door In Asia-Pacific

April 18, 2024 Mick HallI, Consortium News. Educate! AUKUS, Japan, Military Alliance, New Cold War, New Zealand, The Philippines, US Imperialism

Political tensions are increasing in the Asian-Pacific region after a summit in Washington resulted in indications that New Zealand, Japan and the Philippines are moving towards greater integration with the U.S.-led military bloc in the region. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden attended a trilateral summit on Thursday, where they announced an agreement enhancing military operation, including joint naval exercises alongside Australia in the disputed East China Sea.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand Urge Israel Against ‘Catastrophic’ Assault

February 15, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Australia, Canada, European Union (EU), Genocide, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Palestine, Rafah, Spain, Wars and Militarism

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a joint statement on 15 February expressing serious concern over Israel’s planned assault on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. "We are gravely concerned by indications that Israel is planning a ground offensive into Rafah. A military operation into Rafah would be catastrophic," the joint statement read. “We urge the Israeli government not to go down this path. There is simply nowhere else for civilians to go,” it added. The statement comes one day after Germany and France showed their concern over the planned attack. “One point three million people are waiting there in a very small space. They don’t really have anywhere else to go right now

New Zealand Leaning To Controversial AUKUS Alliance

December 16, 2023 Mick Hall, Consortium News. Educate! AUKUS, China, New Zealand, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Concerns are rising for peace and sovereignty in the Pacific after strong signals from New Zealand’s new government that it wants to swiftly join the U.S.-led military alliance AUKUS. If New Zealand does join the U.S.-led military bloc it would effectively compromise the country’s long-held anti-nuclear policy, Marco De Jong, historian and co-director of the New Zealand foreign policy group Te Kuaka, told Consortium News. He said the decision would put an end to what is left of the nation’s independent foreign policy, as well as its image as an “honest broker” in a region already divided by increasing militarization.

New Zealand’s ‘Russian Edits Scandal’

October 7, 2023 Mick Hall, Consortium News. Educate! Media, NATO, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine

In this tumultuous time of war and global conflict, where pervasive propaganda campaigns mask geopolitical machinations of the powerful and serve their interests, mainstream journalists’ ability to counter these campaigns have never been more limited. Gone are the days when John Pilger was able to have a story attacking George W. Bush and Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq on the front page of the British tabloid, the Daily Mirror. We live in a time of state surveillance and creeping restrictions on freedom of speech, where whistleblowers are criminalised and publishers like Julian Assange face persecution and life imprisonment.

Transparency International’s Covert Agenda

September 8, 2023 Kit Klarenberg, MintPress News. Educate! Ethics, New Zealand, Transparency International, World Bank

On July 24, it was revealed that Transparency International’s New Zealand wing had enlisted the specialist advice of some of the country’s biggest, most notorious lobbying firms on improving ethical standards in the political and corporate lobbying industry. A local businessman, who’d independently offered to assist TINZ in cleaning up the sector, blew the whistle. Expressing “astonishment,” they compared TINZ’s consultation of high-ranking lobbyists on how to clean up their own industry as akin to “police recruiting gang members to determine new rules on pursuit of fleeing drivers.” Yet, anyone familiar with Transparency International’s history would hardly be surprised.

Unease Over New Zealand Overtures To US Military Presence In The Pacific

August 28, 2023 Mick Hall, Consortium News. Educate! AUKUS, China, Militarization, New Cold War, New Zealand, US Imperialism

Whangarei,New Zealand - Recent reports from New Zealand’s security state have sparked protest after all but suggesting the country join the U.S.-led AUKUS military alliance, a move that would reverse years of New Zealand’s independent foreign and defence policy and put it on a collision course with China. Ex-Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark lamented the loss of what would remain of the country’s military sovereignty. Clark blasted an “orchestrated campaign” by defence and security officials to join the U.S., Britain and Australia in AUKUS. In a Twitter thread, she said the government was “abandoning its capacity to think for itself and is instead cutting & pasting from Five Eyes partners.”

Palestine Solidarity Conference Draws Widespread Support

February 8, 2023 Michael Bull, Green Left. Strategize! Australia, Israel, Melbourne, New Zealand, Palestine, Solidarity

Melbourne, Australia - More than 150 people from across Australia and New Zealand attended the Palestine Solidarity Conference, January 27-29, in Melbourne. They included First Nations, progressive Jews, unionists, students, Labor, Greens, socialists and independent and Palestinian activists. Encouragingly many young activists attended and, notably, young Palestinian women. The conference, which included plenary sessions and activist workshops, was hosted by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) and featured renowned Palestinian guests from Australia and around the world, speaking via video link. Senator Lidia Thorpe, on the opening plenary “Organising for Palestine on Stolen Land” said both struggles are connected by “disempowerment, oppression, death, killings and grief” and the fight for land and justice is key.

New Zealand’s New Sectoral Bargaining Law Holds Lessons For US

January 15, 2023 David Madland, OnLabor. Create! Australia, New Zealand, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

In one of the more important advances in collective bargaining around the world, New Zealand recently passed an innovative sectoral bargaining policy, called Fair Pay Agreements. Labor supporters in Britain and Australia want to replicate elements of the policy in their countries, while for American audiences the most important lesson may be how New Zealand’s experiences highlight that sectoral bargaining — in conjunction with worksite bargaining — is necessary to improve working conditions in today’s economy and thus should be part of policy efforts to strengthen unions. Sectoral bargaining, sometimes called broad-based bargaining or industrywide bargaining, is a type of collective bargaining between unions and employers that sets minimum standards on issues such as wages, benefits, safety, and training for all workers in a sector or occupation.

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