New Zealand has moved from first to fifth place in international health rankings of seven countries, carried out by the Commonwealth Fund The slide is due mostly to issues of access, high costs preventing people from visiting doctors or filling prescriptions, safety and management of chronic illness and New Zealanders being the patients most likely…
Just days after two policemen were shot and a police dog killed in Christchurch, there’s been a similar shoot out on a suburban street in New Zealand, this time in New Lynn, West Auckland; plus an armed police operation in Dunedin. in the New Lynn incident a man was taken from the scene with a…
New Zealand, the country perceived to have the ‘lowest rates of corruption’ has suffered more than $72 million dollars worth of fraud in the first six months of 2010, but that is only the “tip of the iceberg” says KPMG forensics expert Stephen Bell. According to an article on Stuff: Cash-strapped Kiwis bitten by recession…
A nice little feature article appeared in today’s Herald, demonstrating that a vast social divide exists in New Zealand’s supposedly ‘classless society.’ The ever widening gulf between the country’s dirt poor and the wealthy classes has been recognised on an international stage but it remains something that is unlikely to be mentioned next time one…
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