Statistics NZ has issued a press release with the shock revelation that unemployment in New Zealand rose in the last quarter to another 10 year high undoing almost all of the improvement seen in the previous quarter. “In seasonally adjusted terms, New Zealand’s unemployment rate rose from 6.0 percent to 6.8 percent during the June…
We came across a new NZ migrant support website and forum today, here’s the press release issued by the site’s designer and author. The site offers opportunities to post job vacancies, look for work and build up social networks whilst allowing people to talk freely about their experiences of moving to and working in New…
25 July 2010 (scroll down for updates & keep checking back) Remember how the Palmerston North Wikipedia page was censored to remove references to crime because it was making overseas investors and professionals shy away from moving to the town?; and of how gangs are now euphemistically called “groups” in some news reports?; and how…
A new piece of legislation slipped through, under urgency, into the statute books last month (just in time for the Auckland elections in a few months?)- the Policing (Involvement in Local Authority Elections) Amendment Bill removed restrictions on serving police in New Zealand standing for local body elections. Now, if they are elected to local…
Just when you thought a solution to NZ’s ripoff prices is to buy from abroad, new fees are being introduced this month to make even that less attractive. Consumer.org has showcased the new Import Transaction Fee which they say is likely to apply to personal imports of goods like books, jewellery, clothing, toys and electrical…
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