Most tourist seasons in New Zealand have a theme. Some years it’s backpacker attacks, some years it’s the ongoing war on freedom campers, but overall the underlying thread is the love hate relationship New Zealand has with tourists, tolerated for nothing more than the wealth they bring and despised simply for being there. This…
The ugly underbelly of Te Anau has again been exposed, a female pilot (with Mainland Aviation College) on an evening out with work colleagues, suffered an horrendous stabbing attack in the toilet of the township’s Moose Bar. In 2011 we reported how the township was gathering a reputation for its tourist attacks after a gang…
In today’s press there are two examples of how New Zealand is good at promoting its image, but it fails when required to actually deliver on the details. In other words the country’s mythology doesn’t live up to the daily realities. Here’s the problem. Too much mythology is used to promote New Zealand as…
Continuing in our popular series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was compiled from comments left on a commerical, British, pro-NZ forum. As with many emigration forums it is funded by the promotion of emigration related businesses. These are not the sort of places where…
Our thoughts are with the Auckland businessman who became the victim of a stabbing during the robbery of his Auckland superette this afternoon. The incident happened at Redhill Superette on Dominion Road about 1.30pm, Inspector Andy Brill of northern police communications said. Three people entered the store and stole some items, during the incident the shopkeeper’s hand was…
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