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NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a ...
1 day ago · ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato With the protest hīkoi from the Far North moving through Rotorua on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of …
Call for expanded Local Democracy Reporting scheme as NZME …
1 day ago · RNZ News. A group representing local councils in Aotearoa New Zealand is calling for the Local Democracy Reporting programme to be expanded after the media company NZME announced a proposal to close 14 community newspapers.. The LDR programme funds local authority coverage at various publications and is managed …
Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned
2 days ago · Members of the King’s Counsel, some of New Zealand’s most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill “seeks to rewrite the Treaty itself” and are calling on the prime minister and the coalition government to “act responsibly now and abandon” it. More than 40 KCs have written to the prime minister and attorney ...
‘Don’t mistake Pacific leaders AUKUS ... - Asia Pacific Report
May 6, 2024 · By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist. A Pacific regionalism academic has called out New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters for withholding information from the public on AUKUS and says the security deal “raises serious questions for the Pacific region”.
Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific
Mar 19, 2021 · John Key pledged to provide up to $200 million in climate aid over the next four years. Most of this was focused on the Pacific. The Paris Agreement recognised that the Pacific was indeed one of the world’s most vulnerable regions when it comes to the effects of climate change – this is for a multitude of reasons.
COP29: Pacific countries cannot be conveniently pigeonholed
5 days ago · This is our Pacific Way in action: state parties and civil society working together to remind the world as we approach a “finance COP” with the upcoming COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11-22 that we cannot be conveniently pigeonholed. READ MORE: Year 2024 to be the first to breach 1.5C warming limit.
West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific spotlight
Oct 12, 2024 · Pacific Media Watch. ABC’s The Pacific has gained rare access into West Papua, a region ruled by Indonesia that has been plagued by military violence and political unrest for decades.. Now, as well as the long-running struggle for independence, some say the Melanesian region’s pristine environment is under threat by the expansion of logging and mining projects, reports The Pacific.
World strikes ‘uncomfortable’ pact at COP26 climate summit
Nov 14, 2021 · For China, India and big emerging economies, the compromise was accepting language around 1.5C, coal and fossil fuel subsidies despite concerns that such restrictions could inhibit their development — and a grievance against …
Climate crisis top Pacific agenda item and it’s a security issue, says ...
Jul 12, 2022 · Climate change had been top of the agenda at every forum she had been to, Ardern said, and represented a huge security issue in itself. “All of these things come back to essentially the resilience of our region and our general security as a region as well.”. If others like Australia chose to follow New Zealand on increasing climate change ...