Another classic case of New Zealand’s appallingly ineffective justice system hit the news today. The Maori King’s 19 year old son has been let-off drink driving (seven times over the legal limit for his age group) and burglary charges, leading to claims that the judge was suffering from cultural hypnotism, because imposing a conviction on…
Kaikoura, named after the Maori words for food (kai) and lobster (koura) is in the news again, and not for being a staunch advocate for marine ecology. If you’re a tourist that’s ever eaten crayfish in Kaikoura, perhaps after a whale watching excursion, you may want to ask where it was sourced from next time…
The allegations of rape and burglary made against Malaysian diplomat Muhammed Rizalman Bin Ismail have paled into insignificance compared to the PR war that has broken out between the two countries. Yesterday, Fairfax media got the suppression order lifted. Their case was probably helped by the many Malaysians who were already openly talking about the…
Update: The man was later named in a New Zealand Herald report as “Muhammed Rizalman Bin Ismail, a junior military official at the Malaysian High Commission in Wellington…” source A diplomat has been given name suppression in New Zealand for alleged burglary and the attempted rape of a woman in Wellington. Diplomatic immunity case now officially…
As if stealing the naming rights for Pavlova and claiming to be the first country in the world to ‘give’ votes to women wasn’t enough, a New Zealand news article has claimed British lifeguard Steven Gregory as one of their own after he’d worked just 2 seasons in the country, and then left his colleagues out…
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