#theguardian.com. × #Nov.20.2025 Samoa PM suspends country’s only daily newspaper from press briefings amid dispute over coverage. Prime minister has accused the Samoa Observer of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in New Zealand
#Health #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Samoa #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.19.2025 New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people. Critics warn move could have devastating impact on lives and wellbeing of those affected
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#theguardian.com. × #Nov.19.2025 UN to hear human rights complaint over New Zealand’s treatment of Māori. UN committee to consider claim by prominent Māori leader Tureiti Moxon that alleges government policies have harmed Indigenous people
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#theguardian.com. × #Nov.18.2025 Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs. Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use
#Tech #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.17.2025 Schools close in New Zealand after play sand recalled over asbestos fears. Six coloured sand products recalled in New Zealand after testing in Australia found asbestos in similar items
#Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.13.2025 Stunning aurora australis lights up sky above New Zealand and Australia after ‘cannibal’ solar storm. The geomagnetic storm, caused by powerful bursts of energy from the sun, also postponed the launch of two Mars-bound Nasa spacecraft in the US
#Science #Weather #USA #Australian continent #Australia #North America #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Nov.12.2025 ‘Atrocious on every level’: sex case findings shame New Zealand’s senior police culture. Inspector general will be inaugurated to oversee service after report on how top officers steered investigation of Jevon McSkimming, who went on to become deputy commissioner
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#theguardian.com. × #Mar.21.2025 Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back. Researchers spot orange Maori octopus clinging to back of large shark off coast of New Zealand in December 2023
#Science #USA #North America #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.21.2025 Feeling a bit down under: Australia drops out of world’s top 10 happiest countries. Australia drops to 11th in the latest World Happiness Report rankings, with New Zealand 12th and Nordic nations still on top of the world
#Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.18.2025 Once named world’s ugliest animal, blobfish wins New Zealand’s fish of the year. Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse in the annual contest
#PublicHoliday #New Year's Eve #New Year #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.12.2025 Police launch new search for fugitive father and children missing in New Zealand wilderness for three years. Over the next few days police will be ‘present’ in the remote Marokopa area where Tom Phillips and his three children are believed to be hiding
#Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.06.2025 Inquest into Sydney detention centre suicides raises questions over missed medication and care routines. A New Zealander, Malaysian and Sierra Leone national separately killed themselves inside Villawood over a three-year period
#PublicHoliday #Sierra Leone #New Year's Eve #Africa #New Year #Australian continent #Australia #Asia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Malaysia
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.06.2025 New Zealand’s high commissioner to the UK loses job after Trump comments. Phil Goff questioned Donald Trump’s grasp of history at a Chatham House event in London, prompting the foreign minister to say his position is ‘untenable’
#Politics #United Kingdom #USA #Europe #North America #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.05.2025 Row erupts in New Zealand parliament over use of Māori name Aotearoa. Dispute emerges after deputy prime minister Winston Peters questioned why MPs used the name Aotearoa in debates
#Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.04.2025 Remains of carved canoe may be most significant discovery of its kind, NZ archaeologist says. More than 450 artefacts from a waka found in pieces in the Chatham Islands expected to reveal new insights about Polynesian voyaging
#Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.03.2025 Mental health crisis ‘means youth is no longer one of happiest times of life’. UN-commissioned study in UK, US, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand finds satisfaction rises with age
#Health #Canada #Republic of Ireland #Australian continent #Australia #Europe #North America #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Mar.03.2025 ‘Gandalf’ accused of selling illegal medicinal cannabis in New Zealand. Outrage over targeting of one of New Zealand’s alleged ‘green fairies’ who provide cheaper medicinal cannabis without prescription
#Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.28.2025 James Cameron says US under Trump is ‘horrifying’ as he becomes New Zealand citizen. Titanic and Avatar director says ‘America doesn’t stand for anything if it doesn’t stand for what it has historically stood for’ – and that he prefers New Zealand to Canada
#Business #Politics #director #Canada #USA #North America #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.27.2025 New Zealand’s top diplomat tells China sudden live-fire drills represent ‘failure’ in relationship. Winston Peters says he told Chinese counterpart Wang Yi not enough warning was given about recent navy exercises that forced planes to divert
#China #Asia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.24.2025 New Zealand minister quits after having ‘placed hand’ on staffer’s arm. ‘I took the discussion too far,’ says commerce minister Andrew Bayly, calling his own behaviour ‘overbearing’
#Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.24.2025 ‘Extremely capable’ weapons on Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast, NZ government says. New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins says department has ‘never seen a task group of this capability undertaking this sort of work’
#China #Australian continent #Australia #Asia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Australia Group
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.22.2025 China conducts second live-fire drill near New Zealand. Report from New Zealand navy personnel comes a day after similar drill forced multiple airlines to change flight paths between Australia and New Zealand
#China #Australian continent #Australia #Asia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand ×
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.21.2025 Eleventh-hour high court bid to stop Australia’s secretive deal to resettle NZYQ cohort in Nauru. Proceedings filed Friday for man scheduled to be deported Monday as Human Rights Law Centre makes case for ‘dangerous precedent’
#Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand × #Nauru
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.21.2025 Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill in sea between Australia and New Zealand. Three Chinese vessels currently in international waters notified Australia’s defence department before the drill
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