Welcome to the latest in our very popular Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand. Today’s tale was first published on Reddit, by a Kiwi who emigrated to Australia and then returned to New Zealand on a trip. I moved to Australia in 2006 with my parents and…
Today’s post is about everyday racism in New Zealand, using a discussion thread from Twitter. We’ll let the thread tell the story, but will tell you the background is the recent news about strong anti-immigrant sentiment in New Zealand, especially against students from India and China, and the way they’re exploited in the country. Visit…
14 December 2016: Today we learned of the departure of another small business from Kaikoura – Global Culture. Business owner Browyn Chandler and her husband Jon had the dream lifestyle, according to Emma Dangerfield writing for the Kaikoura Star, spending their time between Kaikoura and Rangiora. They’d been running Global Culture for 12 years, it…
Three years ago the Human Trafficking Research Coalition commissioned the University of Auckland to study the level of worker exploitation in New Zealand. The report, which has just been made public, exposed the prevalence of exploitation, forced labour, slavery and human trafficking in New Zealand. The research was conducted by the University of Auckland’s Dr…
An insurance nightmare is looming for thousands of New Zealand property owners who’ve invested in buildings with reinforced concrete slabs built since 2012. There may also be serious repercussions for property prices in Auckland, and other areas with grossly over inflated values, if buildings become uninsurable because of the presence of sub-standard steel reinforcing. The…
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