The furore over New Zealand’s name suppression laws is going to be given a fresh impetus with the announcement that permanent name suppression has been granted to a “prominent” Manawatu man convicted of downloading more than 300,000 pornographic images, “many of them children“: “The man, who was charged with 25 counts of possessing objectionable material…
(See update at bottom of page) Also read from 2012 – Dogs used in racist attacks on Asian people in Christchurch and Gone to the dogs: How to stop the attacks (“Dog attacks put 500 New Zealanders in hospital each year. Andrew Stone looks at how to get the most dangerous breeds under control. Eight…
Yesterday as part our Migrant Stories series we entered an account from a British person, who’d lived in New Zealand and returned to the UK, titled “Why I think New Zealand is backward“. Her post was made on an emigration forum frequented mainly by British people and some New Zealanders. It drew a massive response,…
Continuing our series of first hand migrant accounts from around the net. This post was made on a British expatriate web forum. It was written by a teacher who lived in New Zealand for two years before returning to the UK. “HiSomeone asked me this week in a post how I could describe New Zealand…
The day after police minister Judith Collins called police joy rides on Target Road Primary school’s playing fields a “bit of fun” and said she wasn’t concerned by it (See “Collins backs police joyrides at school gala“) a police car has been involved in a multi-vehicle crash in Albany, North Shore. North Shore is the…
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