A reminder today that New Zealand is neither a great place to be a woman, nor to raise kids. New Zealand has some of the highest rates of sexual violence due to a lack of education and normalisation of these kinds of indecent assaults: Police are appealing for help in their search for a young man, maybe…
The recent treatment of female MPs who bravely made a stand against sexual violence in the New Zealand parliament has caught the attention of the world’s media. The UK’s Daily Mail wrote: Women have stood up one after another to reveal their stories of sexual violence before being forced to be quiet and leave New…
Theo Kriel was today given a life imprisonment for the murder of Liberty Rose Templeman. He must serve a minimum period of 11.5 years before he can be considered for parole. He must also serve a concurrent sentence of 6 months for indecent assault. Stuff.co.nz had an account of the hearing: “Life imprisonment means just…
Yesterday as part our Migrant Stories series we entered an account from a British person, who’d lived in New Zealand and returned to the UK, titled “Why I think New Zealand is backward“. Her post was made on an emigration forum frequented mainly by British people and some New Zealanders. It drew a massive response,…
According to various news reports a 14 year old youth has been arrested in connection with yesterday’s sex attack in Mangere. There have been a spate of attacks on young women and girls in the area (see yesterday’s blog post) which include the rape of an 8 year old child. Police aren’t saying if the…
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