John Key’s abuse of a female hospitality worker has been the subject of an American talk show. John Oliver, also known for his ridicule of Key’s plans to change the NZ flag, has laid into the ‘galloping colonial clot‘ for his aberrant ways. Here’s the YouTube video… And for good measure, here’s Oliver’s earlier…
From The Guardian… Politicians are routinely upbraided for behaviour befitting a schoolyard, but the New Zealand prime minister has now become embroiled in a controversy that centres, quite literally, on hair-pulling. On Wednesday morning John Key apologised following allegations by an Auckland waitress that he had repeatedly tugged on her ponytail, a pattern of…
The Auckland arrest of billionaire Kim Dotcom, an investor and online piracy facilitator file-sharing host, in his mansion made worldwide news headlines – and cost Kiwi taxpayers at least $70,000. Along with American agents, the New Zealand police had been conducting an investigation into Dotcom’s website Megaupload since August of last year. He and six…
“The Greatest Debate on Earth” John Key has been bumped from BBC World’s Greatest Debate on Earth, however some NZ news outlets are using the word “dumped”. Dumped is an emotive word, surely “dropped” would’ve sounded better? “Dumped” suggests that someone is deeply embarrassed by the exclusion, there is an element of petulance about it,…
There have been 400 hundred burglaries reported in an 8 week period in Hawkes Bay according to an article in hawkesbay.co.nz, many of them were from homes left insecure or unlocked. Other towns have also experienced similar crime waves, such as the small town of Martinborough which suffered 45 burglaries over an 11 days and…
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