She promised a carbon zero future,but New Zealand’s Prime Minister has agreed to cut fuel taxes as the price at the pump shot up to $NZ3 a litre.
In a move that aligns with many Australian states’ school holidays,New Zealand’s border will open to vaccinated Australian tourists from April 12.
The Prime Minister told protesters outside the Parliament that measures would not be lifting because of their actions,but because the need for them was passing.
The isolation required as New Zealand reopens make clear who this is for:the thousands of Kiwis who moved to Australia expecting they could always go home.
Tourists from Australia cannot enter until July,and travellers from the rest of the world will be kept out for another eight months,until October.
This decade shows no sign of calming down yet. From vaccination to elections to the Olympics,our correspondents highlight the big news issues of the year.
Chris Luxon may be the answer National has been looking for all along to take on the likeable NZ Prime Minister,but he’s hedging his bets.
Two-thirds of the reduction could come from purchasing offshore climate offsets or other global reductions New Zealand purchases,rather than a domestic cut.
Why is Ardern,who called climate change the nuclear-free issue of her generation,not making the trip to Glasgow?
New Zealand’s coronavirus elimination dream is dead. The government must now motivate more people to vaccinate.
That’s even if 75 per cent of the population is vaccinated. But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says last year’s predictions were worse.