We all know that New Zealand has a widespread and deeply damaging problem with drugs, some of you may also know that it has the dubious honour of having the highest rate of cannabis users in the OECD and the third highest rate of Amphetamine use. The international press has just picked up on the…
It was like a scene from the television series League of Gentlemen, only there was no humour in it. The Northern Advocate is carrying a story about a police patrol coming under attack in Whangarei, the ‘capital town’ of Northland, est pop 41,000. Men wielding spades and wheel braces and an object thrown at a…
Poor Justin Bieber, within minutes of arriving in New Zealand he became a victim of theft – someone stole his hat; then his mama got knocked over! Perhaps someone should’ve warned him about the predators before he left Australia? He wrote on his twitter page “AUSTRALIA…i want to say thank you for the most incredible…
Do you remember Yin Ping Yang, the 80 year old Grandmother who was savagely beaten and stamped on in a home invasion in June 2008? Her death, one of a series of attacks on Asian people in New Zealand, was followed by the issuing of a safety warning for Asians in New Zealand: “Safety Warning…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the immigrant experience in New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s Migrant Tale was posted by the partner of a British truck driver on a for-profit immigration forum.The couple have an 11 year old daughter and planned to settle in Nelson.…
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