Tag: WELLINGTON

‘Just Go and See It’: Influential Dance Teacher, Choreographer Praises Shen Yun

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—Deirdre Tarrant, a choreographer and dance teacher, has previously seen Shen Yun Performing Arts. On April 13, Ms. Tarrant attended Shen Yun’s evening performance at St. James Theatre in Wellington. Ms. Tarrant is regarded as a woman who has had a “significant influence on the teaching of dance in New Zealand” by the Royal Academy of Dance, one…


New Zealand’s Capital City Is Running out of Water

The capital city of New Zealand, Wellington, is unable to provide enough water to meet demand, meaning water restrictions during the upcoming summer are almost inevitable. A report by Wellington Water told local councils that due to limited funding, it was unable to sufficiently maintain its aging water infrastructure, with many assets already beyond the…


New Zealand Convoy Protesters Gather Near Parliament Against COVID-19 Restrictions

Hundreds of New Zealand protesters have gathered near the Parliament building in the country’s capital Wellington, demanding an end to COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates. Arriving in convoy from around the country, cars, trucks, camper vans, and other vehicles jammed the capital’s streets for hours as they got out to meet and speak on Parliament’s…


New Zealand Opposition Leader Rolled After Move to Demote MP Backfires

New Zealand’s (NZ) National Party has voted to oust current opposition leader Judith Collins following a three-hour emergency meeting on Nov. 25. Her deputy Shane Reti will be the interim leader until an internal party vote on Nov. 30. National Party MPs and members of the shadow cabinet called a crisis caucus after Collins moved…


Thousands March in NZ’s Capital Against Vaccine Mandates, Lockdowns

Thousands of New Zealanders have mobilised in a peaceful demonstration in the capital city Wellington, to voice their opposition to government-mandated health restrictions and vaccine mandates. Authorities have responded with extra security around the Beehive, New Zealand’s (NZ) Parliament, on Nov. 9. Protestors of the Freedom and Rights Coalition gathered against a range of COVID-19-related…


New Zealand to Halt Removal of ‘At Risk’ Children From Families

WELLINGTON—New Zealand said on Wednesday it will put a virtual halt to the practice of taking at-risk children away from their families, a policy that has long angered its indigenous Maori community. Children deemed to be facing harm have been moved into state care for decades despite Maori criticism that the process is racially skewed…


New Zealand Returns Wellington to Alert Level 1 After Australian COVID

New Zealand’s cabinet has agreed to return the Wellington region to Alert Level 1 after the city was moved to Alert Level 2 when an Australian man travelled there from Sydney while potentially infectious with the Delta variant of the CCP virus. NZ COVID-19 Minister Chris Hipkins said in a press release there had been no…


New Zealand Returns Wellington to Alert Level 1 After Australian COVID-19 Outbreak

New Zealand’s cabinet has agreed to return the Wellington region to Alert Level 1 after the city was moved to Alert Level 2 when an Australian man travelled there from Sydney while potentially infectious with the Delta variant of the CCP virus. NZ COVID-19 Minister Chris Hipkins said in a press release there had been no…


Ohio Village Abuzz Before Trump’s First Post-Presidential Rally

Excitement has been mounting among Republicans in the small northeast Ohio Village of Wellington for former President Donald Trump’s first rally since the 2020 presidential election. In this rural picturesque town of slightly less than 5,000 people on the doorstep of a Democratic stronghold 41 miles southwest of Cleveland, Trump is expected to pack’em in…


Wellington Moves to CCP Virus Alert Level 2

The New Zealand city of Wellington will move to alert level two from 6 p.m. on Wednesday night after an Australian man with COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, visited several locations while infectious on a weekend getaway. RNZ reported the alert level two would last until 11.59 p.m. on Sunday, June 27….