Expat Brits view of NZ

Continuing in our popular series of Migrant Tales, first had accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from places around the net. This story was written by a British person on a British emigration forum in June 2011. He and his wife emigrated to New Zealand five years ago, in vain, to get…

Pike River Mine Would’ve Been Illegal In Australia

Pike River Mine would’ve been illegal in Australia, or in most first world countries for that matter. Ean Higgins, the old-school Australian journalist vilified in New Zealand for asking “difficult questions” at the Pike River disaster press conferences  and called a “tosspot” and “boorish” by Gerry Brownlee, was one of the journalists who managed yesterday…