A South Island respiratory specialist Dr Roland Meyer has linked a “terrible increase” in respirable problems in the city of Invercargill to poor air quality. Apparently air quality standards have been breached 17 times this year, which is thrice the number of breaches in 2009. SCOT MACKAY, writing for the Southland times An alarming rise…
. When it’s a flee. Or rather, a chase is not a chase, neither may it be called a pursuit. In New Zealand its been re-branded “fleeing.” Leaving aside the obvious grammatical difficulties this will cause, its little more than a game of semantics when the outcomes of a police pursuit policy twenty years out…
Another example of a culture of bullying and victimisation has arisen in a New Zealand, a great place to raise kids. A pupil told that she “looked like a slut” by her school dean says she feels unfairly singled out and her parents are furious the school has done little in response to their complaints.…
The United States rowing team has just had an unpleasant brush with New Zealand’s spiralling crime problem. On Saturday a member of the team had a number of personal items stolen after the World Rowing Championships at *Lake Karapiro. A Police press released managed to turn what could’ve been a PR clunker into a ‘gold…
It’s been a bad few days for bullying in New Zealand, with the topic very much at the forefront of discussion again. These things have a tendency to go in cycles in New Zealand – they flare up every now and then, get discussed earnestly for a while then get conveniently forgotten about. Bullying is…
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