October 2024
New Zealand Navy ship sinks off Samoa, all 75 on board safe
A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force says.
- Lucy Craymer
November 2021
NZ National Party crisis deepens as leader is ousted
The ousting of Judith Collins continues a period of instability that has helped boost support for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s governing Labour Party.
- Matthew Brockett and Bloomberg News
October 2021
New Zealand sets 90pc vaccination target to end lockdowns
Jacinda Ardern says reaching a 90 per cent inoculation rate would make the country one of the most vaccinated countries in the world.
- Nick Perry
August 2021
Delta outbreak exposes New Zealand’s low vaccination rates
Eleven new cases were reported on Thursday, taking the total to 21 in the latest outbreak that ended the country’s six-month, virus-free run.
- Praveen Menon
New Zealand plans to start reopening borders early next year
Many observers question whether it’s feasible for New Zealand to maintain a zero-tolerance approach to the virus once international travel resumes.
- Nick Perry
October 2020
Ardern-slide: Labour's 'antidote to anxiety' win
Labour's Jacinda Ardern looks likely to be New Zealand's first outright majority government leader in decades after riding a wave of support for her world's-toughest lockdown response to the COVID-19 pandemic to a massive election victory.
- Updated
- Praveen Menon
Ardern, Collins make final pleas to voters before NZ election
'If you want pace and speed, give us a strong mandate,' Jacinda Ardern told voters on the eve of Saturday's poll.
- Praveen Menon
- Opinion
- World elections
Ardern eyes victory in election - but NZ's future isn't clear
The New Zealand election is all over bar the shouting. The question is, however, what Jacinda Ardern does with her thumping victory.
- Luke Malpass
NZ opposition leader, facing heavy defeat, says polls are wrong
Judith Collins said the polls were wrong on Donald Trump's 2016 win, on Brexit, and on the last Australian general election.
- Henry Cooke
Ardern maintains lead in NZ election poll
All recent polls have pointed to a victory for Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party, governing in a coalition with the Greens and New Zealand First.
- Praveen Menon