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‘We’re dividing the world’: NZ no fan of AUKUS submarines

Gerry Brownlee, foreign affairs spokesman for New Zealand’s centre-right National Party, said he was concerned AUKUS was painting China as an “enemy”.

  • Matthew Knott

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Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Quad meeting in Melbourne last week.

Why the Quad is failing on Myanmar human rights

If the Quad is serious about its agenda, its members need to respond much more strongly to the region’s most ugly current violation of democracy and human rights.

  • Helen Clark and Gareth Evans
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Pandemic highlights the importance of a sustainably funded WHO

Making the world safer and healthier means member states of the World Health Organisation must tackle its long-term funding challenge.

  • Helen Clark, Graça Machel, Paul Martin, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Elhadj As Sy and Gordon Brown
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Before the next pandemic, the world needs a new vaccine treaty: WHO chief

Member states are meeting next week to begin discussions on a new pandemic treaty that former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says could be agreed in as soon as six months.

  • Latika Bourke
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark led the independent investigation into the coronavirus.

Helen Clark slams WHO for opposing China travel bans, jury out on lab leak

Countries that did nothing about travel early on made the pandemic impossible to stop, says former New Zealand PM who co-chaired an international expert panel that looked into the virus outbreak.

  • Latika Bourke
Former New Zealand Prime Minister and former head of UNDP Helen Clark has criticised China and other countries for being too slow to act on the spread of COVID-19.

'Signal was ignored': Independent inquiry criticises China and WHO over COVID

A global inquiry has identified crucial failures in China's early handling of the coronavirus pandemic when authorities could have acted "more forcefully" to protect public health.

  • David Crowe
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Refugee Behrouz Boochani arrived in New Zealand in November for a writers' festival.

'A long chapter' ends: Behrouz Boochani granted asylum in New Zealand

The Kurdish-Iranian writer joins a small group of successful applicants. Having refugee status means he can stay in the country indefinitely and can apply for a resident’s visa.

  • Cate Broughton and Lee Kenny
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will lead the independent investigation into the coronavirus.

Virus inquiry chief Helen Clark warns of long wait for vaccine

Australians could wait for two and a half years for a widespread vaccine to counter the coronavirus, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned.

  • David Crowe
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, condemned the "lack of leadership" during the pandemic.

In tears, WHO chief blasts 'lack of leadership and solidarity' during pandemic

The World Health Organisation's top official also announced that former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark would be co-chair of an impending international investigation into the pandemic.

  • Bevan Shields
The one glass ceiling Helen Clark couldn't smash

The one glass ceiling Helen Clark couldn't smash

New Zealand's Helen Clark was a strong female leader before it was cool to be a strong female leader.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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