Lifestyle Used To Lure Investors But Nets Full Of Holes

Lincoln Tan, the immigration affairs journalist at the NZ Herald, has again written an excellent series of feature articles for the paper. This time concentrating on a potential growth area for the New Zealand Immigration Service – the Business Investor. In the first article he writes about a recent study to investigate the major draws…

New Zealand Is The “Gunna Country” – updated

“Kiwis must make room for improvement at World Cup” We came across another article raising concerns about New Zealand’s ability to successfully host the Rugby World Cup, this time in the Sydney Morning Herald, where Greg Gowden spoke in less than glowing terms about the way spectators and fellow colleagues were treated as little more…

The New Zealand Pension Rip-Off

Another site has launched recently that may be considered to be essential reading for anyone intending to retire in New Zealand, whether they be a migrant or a returning New Zealander. It’s at NZ Pension Protest.com – and is called  “The New Zealand Pension Rip-Off – How the government confiscates overseas pensions” The author said:…

Daniel Vae & NZ’s War On Drugs

Police have finally managed to apprehend Daniel Vae, a patched member of the King Cobras, at an address in suburban Glenfield, North Shore, Auckland. The operation was one of those textbook AOS raids, a ‘surgical strike’ into the heart of an otherwise peaceful neighbourhood, but two previous attempts to capture Vae last week (in Grey…

Memorial For Liberty Templeman

The Bay Chronicle is carrying a story about a group of teens planning a memorial to murdered British teenager, Liberty Templeman, who died at the hands of a youth in Kerikeri in 2008. “To fundraise for the memorial, they plan to hold a concert on October 16 at The Centre, where Libby performed as a…