New Zealand’s nationwide ban on battery caged hens has created an egg shortage, pushing up prices for eggs and the foods requiring it, such as breakfast staples and desserts. Battery cages are small, wire cages used to house egg-laying hens. Each cage is about 40 centimetres (16 inches) and contains four to seven hens. In…
New Zealand Pavlovas and Pastries Hit by Egg Ban
January 5, 2023
admin
Asia & PacificAustraliaBusiness & MarketsBusinesses in COVID-19commodity pricesCompaniesEggsinflationInternationalNew ZealandpavlovaWorld
0 Comment
New Zealand Won’t Require Chinese Arrivals to Show COVID-19 Test
The New Zealand government said on Wednesday it would not require travellers from China to produce a negative COVID-19 test, bucking a trend that has seen a number of nations implement such measures as cases surge in China. New Zealand’s COVID-19 minister, Ayesha Verrall, said in a statement that a public health risk assessment had…
Civil Rights Losing Out to New Zealand’s War on Tobacco
December 22, 2022
admin
age discriminationAsia & PacificAustraliaInternationalNew ZealandOpinionsmoking banSocial IssuesTobacco bansUSViewpointsWorld
0 Comment
Commentary Occasionally, one comes across a law that creates more problems than it tries to solve. The New Zealand Parliament adopted such a law on Dec. 13, the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022. The law stipulates that a person “must not sell a smoked tobacco product to a person born…
New Zealand Chinese Rally to Support ‘White Paper Revolution’
Over one hundred New Zealand Chinese rallied on Dec. 2 at Auckland’s Aotea Square, mourning victims of a fatal apartment fire in Urumqi and showing solidarity with Chinese protests against the regime’s zero-COVID policy. Members of New Zealand’s parliament showed support. White papers, with words supporting China’s “White Paper Movement” and calling for the Chinese…
New Zealand Court Strips Anti-Vax Parents of Medical Custody of Ill Baby
December 7, 2022
admin
Asia & PacificCCP VirusCOVID-19 vaccinationmedical freedomNew Zealandunvaccinatedvaccine hesitancyVaccines & SafetyWorld
0 Comment
A New Zealand court ruled against the parents of a sick infant on Dec. 7, temporarily stripping them of medical custody of their son after they refused blood transfusions from vaccinated donors, requesting that the health system allow them access to blood from unvaccinated donors who were standing ready to donate. The four-month-old boy, who…
New Zealand Court Strips Anti-Vaccine Parents of Medical Custody of Ill Baby
December 7, 2022
admin
Asia & PacificCCP VirusCOVID-19 vaccinationmedical freedomNew Zealandunvaccinatedvaccine hesitancyVaccines & SafetyWorld
0 Comment
A New Zealand court ruled against the parents of a sick infant on Dec. 7, temporarily stripping them of medical custody of their son after they refused blood transfusions from vaccinated donors, requesting that the health system allow them access to blood from unvaccinated donors who were standing ready to donate. The four-month-old boy, who…
New Zealand Plans Law to Require Facebook, Google to Pay for News
WELLINGTON—The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. to pay New Zealand media companies for the local news content that appears on their feeds. Minister of Broadcasting Willie Jackson said in a statement on Sunday that the…
Bodies-in-Suitcases Suspect Appears in New Zealand Court
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases made her first court appearance in New Zealand on Wednesday. The 42-year-old woman has been charged with two counts of murder. She was not required to enter a plea during the…
Lowering the Right to Vote to 16 Years of Age Is Misguided
Commentary On Nov. 21, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General (pdf) declared that the legal provisions “which provide for a minimum voting age of 18 years are inconsistent with the right … to be free from discrimination on the basis of age.” The Court has now waded into…
Head of New Zealand Reserve Bank Concedes It Is Engineering a Recession
November 24, 2022
admin
Adrian OrrAsia & PacificAustraliaBusiness & Marketseconomic policiesInternationalNew ZealandrecessionReserve Bank of New ZealandWorld
0 Comment
Adrian Orr, governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), admitted the bank was engineering a recession to lower inflation. The remark comes a day after the central bank raised the official cash rate (OCR) by a record 75 basis points to 4.25 percent. In its monetary policy statement (pdf), the RBNZ revealed the economy…
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- September 2013
- July 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- December 1
-
Meta