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New Zealand News
Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in New Zealand?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNew_Zealand&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
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"body": "A Coastguard Tautiaki Moana spokesperson said the incident was identified by experienced locals who noticed the 7.5m runabout drifting towards the harbour entrance on Sunday.\n\nThe initial concern was raised by a local Coastguard member, but no formal distress call was made.\n\nTwo Bluff Coastguard volunteers, who were undertaking maintenance on the Bluff Rescue vessel at the time, were able to respond immediately to the distressed vessel.\n\nWhen they reached the harbour entrance, they observed the disabled boat already being towed by a smaller 5m runabout.\n\nHowever given the strength of the outgoing tide, volunteers believed the smaller boat would struggle to complete the tow safely and decided to take over the rescue.\n\nThe vessel, which had been disabled by a faulty fuel pump, was towed safely back to the shore.\n\nSea conditions were calm for this time of year but the sea temperatures were cold.\n\nCoastguard volunteers did not observe any of the boat's three occupants wearing life-jackets.",
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"body": "\"A neighbour had seen the boy walking towards an area of bush which leads towards an estuary,\" Waitematā West Police Inspector Nick Salter said.\n\n\"Time became critical, given high tide was coming in a few hours, so we had Eagle overhead searching the water.\"\n\nSalter said the boy was found near the water within minutes, with the helicopter directing ground staff to the precise location.\n\n\"Staff made their way through the mangroves to the boy. He was wet and muddy but fortunately he was safe, and not in need of medical assistance.\"\n\nPolice were able to safely return the boy to his family.\n\n\"Anyone who has kids will know how terrifying this would have been, and we are fortunate that this could be safely resolved so quickly,\" Salter said.\n\n\"It's a great result by all our staff that responded on Friday.\"",
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"body": "Act leader David Seymour will make what his party has billed as a major election announcement.\n\nThe 11am announcement will be livestreamed in this file.\n\nSeymour's party polled 7.8% in the RNZ-Reid Research Poll published this morning. That would translate to 10 seats in Parliament, down one from currently.\n\nSeymour is currently acting Prime Minister while Christopher Luxon is on leave.\n\nThe party alerted media to the announcement on Monday evening, saying it related to the election, but was not a policy.",
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"title": "United States reinstates blockade against Iranian maritime traffic, resumes strikes",
"body": "US President Donald Trump says the US is reinstating its blockade of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will start charging for ships from elsewhere to transit through it. Follow live.\n\nUS President Donald Trump says the US is reinstating its blockade of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will start charging for ships from elsewhere to transit through it.\n\nThe announcement came before the US military said it had resumed strikes on Iran, following a weekend in which the US and Iran traded missile strikes against targets in the region.\n\nFollow our live blog below for updates.",
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"title": "Move-On Order Fears Already Pushing Rough Sleepers Out Of City - Social Service Provider",
"body": "Fear surrounding the incoming move on orders is already pushing rough sleepers of out Auckland's central city, says a social service provider.\n\nOral submissions on the Summary Offences (Move-on Orders) Amendment Bill were heard by the Justice committee on Monday, with most speaking in opposition to its introduction.\n\nLifewise is an Auckland-based community organisation which supports children, the elderly and people on the street. Chief executive Pam Elgar told RNZ her organisation had seen homeless people \"shifting\" out of the CBD into other neighbouring suburbs.\n\nShe said it was because of fears around the impending move-on legislation.\n\n\"We're all creatures of habit, so when you find a place that's relatively safe - a place you feel okay in - whether it's sleeping under a bridge or in the doorways of a property, and you're no longer there, it means something has triggered that fear.\n\n\"It's not a safe space to be on the street, so if people are moving around as we believe they are, then that's a concern. We believe that's triggered because of the distrust in this government and this legislation coming in,\" she said.\n\nThe latest Auckland Council data showed there were 706 people known to be sleeping in cars, streets and local parks in January, up from 653 in January last year but down from a peak of 940 in September 2025.\n\nElgar said that did not match up with what her staff and other organisations were seeing.\n\n\"We believe they're moving, and you can't count them, because our experience is the people coming into Merge are increasing, the people coming into Auckland City Mission are increasing.\"\n\nShe said data on the number of homeless people in Auckland was conducted by council compliance officers who only covered a small part of the city.\n\n\"The count that the compliance officers are doing can't be extrapolated to make points about homelessness. It is simply a count on one day about where they are and it isn't telling us that people are better off because the numbers are lower.\n\n\"Let me be really clear, the compliance officers are simply doing their job... I believe public servants are doing the best that they can do, but they are combined within a cohort of responsibility that they have to do.\"\n\n'The hardest thing is just finding them'\n\nLifewise outreach worker Kat Feo finds temporary accommodation rough sleepers and told RNZ clients from all over the country are flocking to Auckland.\n\nShe said it was getting hard to keep track of where they all are.\n\n\"I've come by some that's come from Wellington, Christchurch, Rotorua, Hamilton... a lot of them have no contact, so we just try our best to outreach and try and find them whatever areas that we cover.\"\n\nWhile getting people temporary accommodation was not too difficult because of the connections Likewise had, there were still many barriers, Feo said.\n\n\"The hardest thing is just finding them or having to activate their benefits through MSD, just supporting and advocating for them and getting their ID before we place them into temporary housing.\n\n\"We've got one car, we've got to share the car amongst six of us, so that's one barrier and just having to try and find ways to try and get them into it.\" she said.\n\nVictoria Crawford - originally from Wellington - came to Auckland in 2024 for rehab after a three-and-a-half year stint in prison.\n\nCrawford told RNZ she was released from prison without any accommodation to go to and had been struggling to find support since.\n\n\"I'm relying on working income for financial assistance and I'm not getting ahead in life using the system the way others can - my accommodation situation isn't good.\n\n\"I went to Work and Income last week to get a food grant and some other things... that was really difficult, so I had to do things by phone - it's endless.\n\n\"There are people in government agencies who are well aware of my situation. They know what's going on with me. They could help me, but they refuse to,\" she claimed.\n\nCrawford told RNZ she was supportive of the move-on legislation.\n\n\"I actually do think it's quite fair that the police have the powers to move homeless on because some are really disrespectful with the way they treat the streets. They leave things in a mess, they'll urinate in places they're not meant to, they're causing trouble for members of the public.\"\n\nWhile it was true many homeless people had complex needs, their issues were behavioural, not criminal, Elger said.\n\n\"Certainly some of the homeless that we deal with have mental health issues, they've got complex health deeds, they have got addiction needs, which creates some behavioural issues.... If you don't know and experience people from the street, and don't know how to treat people with dignity, then you get scared,\" she said.\n\n\"What happens when people go out into maybe the 'leafier' suburbs, then you've got people who just aren't experiencing them, so don't know how to be, and how to just treat people normally.\"\n\nElger said homeless people were not dangerous.\n\n\"What we hear time and time again from homeless is, just say kia ora, say hello, give us a smile.\"\n\n\"We're not anybody other than like you, we just want to be treated with dignity - we just don't happen to have a home.\" Elger said.\n\n'A risk of inconsistency, arbitrariness, and legal challenges'\n\nThe police union has also questioned the need for move on orders, warning they would pull officers away from other duties and displace vulnerable people without appropriate support.\n\nPolice Association president Steve Watt had serious concerns about the regime's practicality and effectiveness.\n\n\"The bill risks placing police in a role of managing the visible effects of homelessness, addiction, mental health issues, poverty, and youth vulnerability, rather than addressing the underlying causes,\" he said.\n\n\"Our primary concern is that police will be expected to repeatedly relocate vulnerable people without the resources, services, or legal guidance needed to achieve lasting outcomes.\"\n\nSome of those moved on could be as young as 14, and Watt said that conflicted with youth justice principles which are focused on welfare and rehabilitation.\n\nHe pointed out officers already had powers to address disorderly or offensive behaviour, assault and obstruction, property damage, and graffiti.\n\n\"So we do question why additional powers are needed when existing legislation already covers public order offending.\"\n\nWatt said the bill lacked detail, leaving officers with significant discretion over where to move people to, how far away they should go.\n\nThat created uncertainty around things like handling homeless people's belongings and referring people to support services, he said.\n\n\"It creates a risk of inconsistency, arbitrariness, and legal challenges,\" he said.\n\nWatt warned police had limited resources and enforcing move on orders would be resource intensive, requiring assessment, follow up and possible enforcement.\n\n\"Repeated move-on orders could divert frontline officers from core policing functions such as prevention, response, and investigations.\"\n\nWatt said the change to be in direct conflict with police gradually withdrawing from mental health callouts, which had been happening over the past few months to relieve frontline pressure.\n\n\"It draws us back into that ... social problem that really doesn't sit with police.\"\n\nPublic pressure to act\n\nAnother submitter from Wellington's Downtown Community Ministry, which supports homeless people, felt the law would place police in a difficult position - having to move people on knowing they had nowhere to go.\n\n\"Police know the people, and they know the stories, and they know the circumstances that that person's in,\" said chief executive Natalia Cleland.\n\n\"I think there will be public pressure from them, they will not be able to walk past someone who they know for certain isn't causing a problem and doesn't have anywhere to go.\"\n\nWatt said Cleland was right.\n\nFormerly homeless man challenges MPs to a weekend on the street\n\nWellingtonian Pat Metham told the committee he had become homeless after a serious injury ended his tennis coaching career.\n\nHe said he chewed through his savings and ended up on the street.\n\n\"I had no idea what to do and had never been in such a situation,\" he said.\n\n\"My experience taught me just how quickly someone's circumstances can change, and just how difficult it is to get help when you need it.\"\n\nHe spoke of the constant struggle and fear that came with living on the street, and urged the committee to amend the bill to focus only on genuinely harmful behaviour.\n\n\"Not on the simple fact that someone has nowhere else to go and is trying to survive.\"\n\nMetham also laid down a challenge, asking members to join him on the street for a weekend with only a sleeping bag and a drink bottle.\n\n\"We would speak with members of the Wellington homeless community, do our best to find food and somewhere to sleep, which may be the street,\" he said.\n\n\"I respectfully think that members of this committee need to understand homelessness and its reality.\"\n\nSubmissions will continue to be heard on Friday.",
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They also made a formal complaint to the Health and Disability Commissioner in 2024, but the couple are still waiting for answers about what went wrong in the dentist chair on May 25, 2023.\n\n\"The amount of impact of this incident on all our lives has been beyond any words can express,\" Ali said.\n\n\"I am really desperate for some help in getting a resolution and some insight as to what happened and how it can be avoided so that it doesn't happen again.\"\n\n\"If the nature of this complaint is so complex that it is taking them so long to investigate, someone failed to do their job properly that day in the clinic, which has left a very able man disabled for life,\" she said.\n\nMacLean needed to get a tooth removed and an implant inserted.\n\nHe went through a specialist Auckland clinic for three procedures before the new tooth was in place.\n\nThe procedure\n\nOn May 25, 2023, aged 59, he arrived at the clinic at 12.10pm for his final appointment and was prepared for sedation. The practice knew he was a type 1 diabetic but he was in good health.\n\nAs part of the family's ACC claim, the anaesthetist provided a full breakdown of what happened that day, which was provided to NZME by Ali and MacLean.\n\nIt said at 12.30pm MacLean was given 2mg of midazolam and then 50mg of propofol.\n\nTen minutes later he was given another 50mg of propofol. At this point, the dental surgery began with the dentist and founder of the clinic giving 4ml of adrenaline.\n\nBetween 12.40pm and 12.50pm McLean was given a further three aliquots of propofol (50mg each) before he was given 1g of paracetamol, 4mg of parecoxib and 8mg of dexamethasone.\n\nAt 12.59pm the dentist commented MacLean's jaw was tight, which can indicate sensation.\n\nMacLean was given a further 50mg of propofol. This was the last dose of sedation given.\n\nJust one minute later his oxygen saturation, which indicates how efficiently the lungs and heart are transporting oxygen to the rest of the body, dropped rapidly from 99% to 47%. Anything under 90% is considered low.\n\nOxygen delivery to MacLean was increased to 6 litres/min from the default rate of 2 litres/min.\n\nOxygen saturation dropped further and oxygen delivery was upped to 15 litres/min.\n\nWhen MacLean's airway was checked the anaesthesiologist noticed he had profound bradycardia, where the heart beats too slowly.\n\nShe informed the room and immediately drew up and administered 600mcg of atropine and flushed it through with saline. CPR was needed to circulate the atropine and chest compressions began and an ambulance was called.\n\nThe compressions increased the heart rate and CPR was stopped.\n\nThen 10ml of 50% dextrose was given and 100% oxygen was delivered via a manual resuscitator. His chest was rising and falling with the hand ventilation but oxygen saturations did not increase.\n\nAn airway device called a laryngeal mask airway was inserted and it took approximately 10 minutes of vigorous hand ventilation for his oxygen saturations to increase. The paramedics arrived during this time.\n\nThe paramedics intubated Maclean and he was transferred to Auckland City Hospital, where he was transferred to ICU, before being transferred to Middlemore Hospital on June 2.\n\nHe was in a coma for 10 days before regaining consciousness but was paralysed, unable to eat or talk. Only after intense therapy has he managed to gain some movement back.\n\nAli has had to quit her job and cares for her husband full time.\n\nHDC complaint based on expert opinion\n\nThe couple made a complaint with the Health and Disability Commission in February 2024.\n\nThe complaint, which has been seen by NZME, was acknowledged by the HDC four days later. It specifically referred to the actions of the anaesthetist.\n\nThe complaint stated a claim was lodged with the ACC for assistance. To assess the claim medical notes were obtained from the dental surgeon, the anaesthetist, Auckland Hospital Critical Care Unit and MacLean's general practitioner.\n\nACC then sent MacLean's file to an external expert anaesthetist, Dr Graham Roper, FANZCA Specialist Anaesthetist at Te Nikau Hospital, Greymouth, for his assessment of what could have happened.\n\nRoper determined that the anaesthetist who was in attendance and responsible for MacLean's sedation had made \"some serious procedural errors at a critical time\", the complaint said.\n\nOn page six of Roper's assessment, it said at the point at which MacLean developed profound bradycardia and atropine was drawn up and administered, he was unconscious with very low oxygen saturations.\n\nThe low oxygen and the bradycardia indicated an impending cardiac arrest.\n\n\"Profound bradycardia in the presence of very low oxygen saturations is an emergency indicative of cardiac hypoxia and requires immediate oxygen delivery. This needed to be the priority and MacLean needed manual ventilation with enriched oxygen.\"\n\nRoper said the anaesthetist would be the most skilled in the team to provide the treatment and should have intervened while an alternative team member drew up the atropine and administered this under direction.\n\n\"With successful ventilation and oxygenation, the heart rate may have increased without the need for atropine.\n\n\"Time was lost when the anaesthetist spent time drawing up and administering medications without an alternative team member providing Mr MacLean with assisted ventilation.\"\n\nRoper's report was the basis of MacLean's complaint. 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"body": "Peter Crampton, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Gabrielle McDonald, Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, University of Otago\n\nThe government's legislative overhaul of New Zealand's health system, passed this month, makes \"timely access to quality healthcare\" a core statutory purpose.\n\nThe Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Act removes previous provisions that focused on engaging with and meeting the needs of Maori and places a stronger emphasis on health targets and the outsourcing of care to private providers.\n\nBehind this new instruction to Health New Zealand to work with private healthcare providers lies the reality that private-equity owned corporations are already playing an ever-increasing role in the healthcare system.\n\nFor example, an estimated quarter of general practices are now owned by large corporates such as Tamaki Health and Green Cross Health.\n\nCommunity laboratory testing is dominated by private services, with one corporate alone, Awanui, accounting for about three quarters of community testing. Similarly, about a fifth of dental services are owned by corporates.\n\nIn healthcare, as elsewhere, the form of ownership matters a great deal.\n\nPrivate equity corporations use capital from institutional investors and from wealthy individual investors, along with high levels of debt, to buy healthcare services.\n\nThere are implications of increased corporate ownership for both access to and quality of healthcare services.\n\nOwnership models\n\nAlready there is considerable participation of private corporations in New Zealand's healthcare system.\n\nThere are four main forms of ownership in New Zealand's health system: public (e.g. public hospitals), private for-profit (e.g. private radiology services), private non-profit (e.g. some general practices) and an emergent type of iwi (tribe) and Maori ownership that shares some features in common with the other three.\n\nSometimes the distinctions are more theoretical than real, but nevertheless, often there are important and very real differences. For example, public hospitals have a strong record of serving families with high health needs regardless of their financial means.\n\nThe distinction between locally-owned private for-profit providers (many general practices) and private equity-owned corporates is important. The former are embedded within and have long-term relationships with their communities. The latter tend to have the singular aim to return a dividend to their shareholders and often have no long-term commitment to their communities.\n\nThe risks and benefits of corporatisation\n\nThe acquisition of health services by private equity owned corporations is typically financed by debt. The modus operandi is often to buy, using the health service to be acquired as security, increase profits through cost cutting (often through reduced staffing), increase prices, aggregate market power, avoid the provision of unprofitable services and then sell after a relatively short time.\n\nFor example, it was reported recently two corporations have made purchase bids on practice networks that are already corporately-owned. If the deals go ahead, they would control more than 15% of New Zealand's general practices.\n\nThe need for rapid revenue growth means that typically services are acquired, costs cut and assets stripped and the service sold for profit over a period of a few years, often at the cost of quality of patient care.\n\nThe international evidence on the impacts of private equity ownership on the quality of care and health outcomes comes largely from the US. It is mostly, but not exclusively, negative, and remains inconclusive for some measures.\n\nThe evidence raises several warning flags, including:\n\n* Cost cutting\n\n* unnecessary profit-generating procedures\n\n* worse health outcomes\n\n* fewer highly qualified staff and high staff turnover\n\n* preference for low-risk patients\n\n* service closures\n\n* loss of autonomy for health professionals\n\n* loss of transparency and public accountability.\n\nThe policy gap\n\nSuccessive New Zealand governments have been silent on regulating corporate ownership of healthcare services and on how widely to open the door to overseas-owned corporates.\n\nThis represents a marked contrast with New Zealand's much more discriminating policies about ownership of sensitive land assets, for example.\n\nThe Overseas Investment Office has a general test for any overseas private equity investor being a fit and proper person or entity when they invest in a New Zealand business asset. A national interest test is mandatory for some types of investment, including significant businesses and sensitive land other than farms.\n\nBut this is nothing like the degree of specific testing of risks and benefits when an overseas investor wants to buy a dairy farm, in which elevated criteria of economic benefit to New Zealand are applied.\n\nIn some cases the bar is lower for international private equity interests to purchase and run a chain of local general practice clinics, or a community lab testing business, than it is for them to purchase a single residential home.\n\nCorporate ownership of healthcare services matters for people who use healthcare services and those who pay for them.\n\nNew Zealand's policy silence about forms of healthcare ownership represents a significant gap in policy making and a lost opportunity to address a sustainable, accountable future of the public health system. 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