1080 Use In NZ May Be Stopped By The USA Congress

There was promising news for the environment in New Zealand today. The Press is running a story saying that the US Congress is to be presented with a bill that will ban the production and export of the poison 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate) of which New Zealand is the world’s single largest user, taking almost all…

Dying Motorcyclist Laughed At As He Lay Dying

One of our readers sent in the link to this story this morning, it’s a shocking example of New Zealand’s culture of brutality and of the callous disregard held by some Kiwis toward  fellow human beings. A few days ago we talked about the film Toby Brennan being shot in Christchurch because the people there…

Jobless NZ Youth “A Ticking Time Bomb”

Thinking about emigrating to New Zealand because it’s a great place to raise kids? Think again because according to Labour’s youth affairs spokeswoman, Jacinda Ardern,  more than 70,000 people in the 15 to 24 age group are not at work, or in education or training and youth unemployment is a ticking timebomb. As far as…

Immigrants Caught In Cold Poverty Trap

Our sympathies go out to Tenoch King and her husband, Mark Steadman. The couple emigrated to New Zealand three years ago, Mr Steadman is a relief secondary school teacher from Australia and his American wife is a graduate and is working part time. They bought an old, uninsulated 1914 villa (wooden)  in Port Chalmers* with…