Migrant Tales – Does NZ Really Need Skilled Migrants

Continuing  in our series of Migrant Tales  – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from locations around the web. The  link to this tale was sent to us by a reader in response to our ongoing examination of the status of skilled migrants in New Zealand. It appeared in Linkedin…

Hundreds Paid Less Than The Minimum Wage

Following on from our Migrant Tale: Civil Engineer now cleaning ovens in New Zealand we thought this would be a good time to explore further the exploitation of migrant workers in New Zealand. It seems that the National Distribution union has had concerns about this issue for some time and that some degree of fault…

Why Did Wills And Kate Cancel Their New Zealand Trip?

The Daily Mail first broke the story that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have cancelled their Rugby World Cup trip to New Zealand for fears that it might be used as a pre-election vote winner by the present National Government. But we here at E2NZ have our own theories about why Wills, Vice…

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…