Stephanie Simpson: body of missing British hiker found in New Zealand

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Admin

The 32-year-old had been missing for a week after she went walking in Mount Aspiring national park

The body of the missing British hiker Stephanie Simpson has been found more than a week after she went missing, New Zealand police have said.

The discovery was made at about 1.40pm on Friday in the Pyke Creek area, a region in which police had devoted significant search resources, including two dog teams, 12 specialist search and rescue staff, thermal imaging drones and a helicopter.

White Island volcano survivor out of coma and told of deaths of husband and daughter

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Admin

Australian victim Lisa Dallow awake in a serious but stable condition two months after New Zealand volcano erupted

An Australian woman has come out of her coma, two months after the volcano eruption on New Zealand’s White Island, to be told the blast killed her husband and daughter.

Adelaide woman Lisa Dallow has woken from her coma in Melbourne’s Alfred hospital and is in a serious but stable condition.

Māori have been robbed of our identity and our land – we must fight to get them back

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Admin

Jacinda Ardern is doing a good job, but Waitangi reminds us of what we have lost

This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.

I am ashamed to say this year was my first time at Waitangi.

New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern picks up the tongs for Waitangi Day barbecue – video

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Admin

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern takes part in the Waitangi Day dawn service, serving up a barbecue breakfast. The prime minister was among the many to gather at Waitangi before sunrise as part of commemorations on the 180th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi’s signing

Jacinda Ardern serves up barbecue breakfast after Waitangi Day dawn service

New Zealand’s Waitangi Day 2020 celebrations – in pictures

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Admin

Jacinda Ardern has spent several days at the Waitangi treaty grounds, meeting Māori chiefs and iwi members

Ardern is right, Waitangi Day is imperfect. But the flaws are intentional | Miriama Aoeke

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Admin

Our rage, protest and mamae are much easier to dismiss if the forum designated for such processes is not of our own making

This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.

Bill English once said of Waitangi Day that New Zealanders were bored of the spectacle – the unnecessary controversy – and deserved a more positive national day. The language is deliberate in its exclusion of Māori as New Zealanders and dismissive of our mamae [pain]. Our anger is a bore and a buzzkill. He declined the opportunity to own those words at Waitangi in 2017, perhaps out of fear or contempt that he would be held accountable. We will never know – his party lost the election in September later that year.

Diary of a coronavirus evacuee: ‘Everyone’s trying to avoid contact with each other’ | Daniel Ou Yang

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Admin

Australian Daniel Ou Yang, 21, was on the Air New Zealand flight out of virus-struck Wuhan to Auckland. Here he writes about the stress of his evacuation

At 2.52pm, we arrived at Wuhan Tianjin airport.

The drive here was smooth, all the big wide roads with no cars on them. We made it through the checkpoints and arrived within an hour.

New Zealand floods: first ever red weather warning issued as thousands evacuated

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Admin

South Island’s southernmost region cut off amid fears paper mill could release toxic ammonia if chemicals mix with floodwaters

Part of New Zealand’s South Island has become cut off after days of torrential rains washed away roads, forced the evacuation of 2,000 people and saw the country’s MetService issue its first ever red weather warning.

The flooding across the flat agricultural plains of Southland, in the island’s southernmost end, came a day after hikers and tourists were evacuated from another part of the region, Fiordland, where more than a metre of rain had fallen in less than three days.

Drone footage shows extent of flooding in New Zealand’s South Island – video

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Admin

Drone footage shows extent of flooding in New Zealand's South Island. Southland, on the southernmost tip, has become cut off after floodwaters washed away roads. Two thousand people have needed evacuation amid storms that forced the MetService to issue their first ever red weather warning

The treaty of Waitangi was forged to exclude Māori women – we must right that wrong | Emma Espiner

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Admin

The signing of the treaty marks the point at which Māori women began to be written out of history

This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.

This year I’m not interested in the symbolism of what Jacinda Ardern does or doesn’t do or say at Waitangi. I’m looking to the Mana Wāhine Kaupapa inquiry. Nearly 30 years since it was instigated, the inquiry investigates the role of the Crown in contributing to the disadvantage that has inequitably burdened wāhine Māori since the Treaty was signed. At the end of this month a judicial conference will be held to consider the claims.

New Zealand flooding: helicopter footage shows landslides and ruined roads – video

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Admin

Fiordland in New Zealand’s South Island has been deluged by 1.1 metres of rain in the past three days alone, stranding hikers, causing landslides and washing away roads. The region usually receives about 10 metres of rain a year. Video from helicopters shows the extent of the destruction. Nearly 400 people in the township of Milford Sound have been cut off by the flooding after roads had to be closed

New Zealand: 100 hikers cut off after deluge destroys roads and sparks landslides

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Admin

Two hikers injured by landslide as helicopters ferry those stranded to nearby town in South Island

About 100 hikers are being rescued by helicopter after becoming stranded overnight on popular bush tracks in New Zealand’s South Island when a month’s rainfall in a single day washed out roads and bridges and caused flooding and landslides.

Eight helicopters and waiting buses ferried the hikers stuck in shelters in Fiordland – and about 70 drivers trapped on the Milford Road – to safety in the town of Te Anau. Two of the hikers were injured when the hut they were sheltering in was hit by a landslide.

Forget anti-racism. This Waitangi Day demand our land back | Morgan Godfery

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Admin

Land loss is at the heart of every Indigenous struggle and our national day is a reminder that Māori are still fighting for self-governance

This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.

One reason progressives love committing to anti-racism rather than, say, decolonisation is the former requires nothing more than a state of mind. “I’m not racist” – drop the spoken or unspoken “but” – and congratulations, you can wash away the guilt.

We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with Māori at the heart | Tina Ngata

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Admin

Waitangi 2020 is the year for us to prepare for a national discussion on power in Aotearoa, and rights for Māori on Māori land

This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.

For many in Aotearoa, Waitangi Day is still a warm mid-summer holiday. A day to relax with friends, or perhaps to celebrate our nationhood.

Mike Moore, former New Zealand prime minister, dies at 71

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Admin

Jacinda Ardern hails Moore as ‘man with a huge intellect and huge heart’

Former World Trade Organisation leader and New Zealand prime minister Mike Moore has died at the age of 71.

He died at his home in Auckland early on Sunday, his wife Yvonne Moore said.

This election is do or die for NZ First and the fight could get dirty | Bryce Edwards

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Admin

Winston Peters has been a kingmaker for years but faces a National backlash after helping Labour into office

Winston Peters is a colossus of New Zealand politics, and his New Zealand First party is, once again, poised to be the lynchpin in this year’s election campaign. But so much hinges on whether his party makes it over the electoral system’s all-important 5% threshold.

Being the only centre party in parliament has made NZ First incredibly powerful. It can, and does, pivot between the left and right blocs of Labour-Greens and National-Act. Since 1996 when New Zealand adopted the mixed-member proportional electoral system, NZ First has decided the government three times – throwing its lot in with National once and Labour twice.

New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern promises stability as she sets poll date

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Admin

Vote on 19 September will also see referendums on legalising euthanasia and recreational marijuana

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced her country’s next general election will be held on 19 September, firing the starting pistol on a campaign race lasting more than seven months.

On Tuesday, Ardern said the forthcoming election campaign would be “positive, factual and robust”, and that her party had signed up to Facebook’s advertising transparency tool to counter misinformation.

Ardern: New Zealand election race should be free of misinformation – video

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Admin

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces the next general election will be held on 19 September and promises a transparent campaign free of misinformation. She says Labour has signed up to Facebook's advertising transparency tool, adding: 'New Zealanders deserve freedom from misinformation and some of the negative style of campaigning that we have seen take place overseas in the past.' Ardern says Labour will also have its major policy costings independently verified.

She says Labour has run 'a strong economy with low unemployment and growth rates that others look to with envy, outstripping countries we often compare ourselves to, like Australia and the UK while making critical investments in health and education and reducing child poverty.'

New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern sets September date for poll

Jacinda Ardern lets phone call from Scott Morrison go to voicemail – video

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Admin

The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, lets a phone call from her Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, go to voicemail during a press conference. Ardern was speaking about the idea of cooperating with Australia on an evacuation of citizens from Australia and New Zealand from coronavirus-hit Wuhan, China

Aiming for the stars: how New Zealand’s space industry is causing turbulence

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Admin

The once-sleepy Mahia peninsula is now the site of regular rocket launches but a plan to put US spy satellites into space is causing concern

Life on the Mahia peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island used to be quiet: surfing beaches, historical monuments, and good snapper fishing.

Then space came to town.

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Stephanie Simpson: body of missing British hiker found in New Zealand

White Island volcano survivor out of coma and told of deaths of husband and daughter

Māori have been robbed of our identity and our land – we must fight to get them back

New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern picks up the tongs for Waitangi Day barbecue – video

New Zealand’s Waitangi Day 2020 celebrations – in pictures

Ardern is right, Waitangi Day is imperfect. But the flaws are intentional | Miriama Aoeke

Diary of a coronavirus evacuee: ‘Everyone’s trying to avoid contact with each other’ | Daniel Ou Yang

New Zealand floods: first ever red weather warning issued as thousands evacuated

Drone footage shows extent of flooding in New Zealand’s South Island – video

The treaty of Waitangi was forged to exclude Māori women – we must right that wrong | Emma Espiner

New Zealand flooding: helicopter footage shows landslides and ruined roads – video

New Zealand: 100 hikers cut off after deluge destroys roads and sparks landslides

Forget anti-racism. This Waitangi Day demand our land back | Morgan Godfery

We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with Māori at the heart | Tina Ngata

Mike Moore, former New Zealand prime minister, dies at 71

This election is do or die for NZ First and the fight could get dirty | Bryce Edwards

New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern promises stability as she sets poll date

Ardern: New Zealand election race should be free of misinformation – video

Jacinda Ardern lets phone call from Scott Morrison go to voicemail – video

Aiming for the stars: how New Zealand’s space industry is causing turbulence