Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales, first had accounts of the migrant experience in New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale was sent in by a reader and it was first published on Blogspot. The author moved to Christchurch shortly before the deadly February quake, her partner planning to study at…
After the Ombudsman’s shocking report into vicious assaults at Hutt Valley High School was released yesterday there are reports of another serious assault in a New Zealand school and inadequate sanctions taken against alleged offenders. The culture of violence in New Zealand’s schools is widespread, some would even say endemic. If you are emigrating to…
Thinking about taking your favourite car parts, trumpet, bagpipes, umbrella, fan banner or shirt, mobile phone or bike to the RWC matches? think again. You risk having them confiscated at the gate. In the absence of a national religion the sport of rugby is taken very seriously in New Zealand, where strict regulations are in…
Auckland’s already congested transport system came to a shuddering halt yesterday and there was dancing on the motorways as Tongans turned out in their thousands to welcome their rugby world cup squad to New Zealand. The team responded to a rapturous reception at Auckland airport by performing a ‘haka’: It followed a similar display from…
February 2009 we wrote about a large scale brawl at Hutt Valley High School and a series of disturbing serious assaults at the school which resulted in parents calling for an investigation by the Human Rights Commissioner into human rights abuses at the Wellington school. We wrote in Gang fight at Hutt Valley High School…
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