It’s been a while since we looked in on the ‘New Zealand’ thread on Amazon.com. This must be one of the longest and most controversial threads about New Zealand on the internet, with almost 200 responses. It’s well worth taking a look at if you have the time, a lot of time. Here’s some snippets…
The brutal killer of young mother, Joanne Wang, murdered in front of her eight year old son at the Manukau Westfield shopping centre, has today received a ‘life’ sentence with a minimum parole period of 12 years. Christopher Shadrock, 23, was found guilty of murdering Mrs Wang in June 2008, five other people – Maka Tuikolovatu,…
Yesterday we talked about knife incidents at Fairfield College and about violence in New Zealand’s school, saying that a breakdown in breakdown in family life and support at home for young people, generations of parents with no parenting skills to pass on, poverty, widespread drug and alcohol abuse, a culture of brutality and mental health…
The Herald today carried an article telling us that, according to a review written by Peter Jackson and David Court, government funding is “critical” to the NZ film industry and that “There is an obvious question: ‘Do we need the New Zealand Film Commission?’,” the report asked. “The answer is unreserved: Yes,” it said. “Movies…
There has been another incident involving a knife at a school in Hamilton, this time two students at Fairfield College were mugged by group of 4 other teen students, assaulted with an umbrella and threatened with a knife. Hamilton Police will be working with schools and the Ministry of Education to work out ways of…
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