Migrants Changing Names To Get Jobs

Lincoln Tan has written another excellent article about the problems that migrants are having finding work in New Zealand during the present tough economic climate. According to Mr Tan an academic says that businesses often eliminate Asian sounding applicants at a very early stage in the interview selection process. Surely that is racial discrimination?: “Desperate…

NZ Institute Report Card

Yesterday we published a Migrant Tale showing one immigrant’s  reaction to New Zealand’s poor ratings in the NZ Institute’s ‘State of the Nation’ report and new figures that had just been released showing that the country’s crime figures had sky rocketed. Today we’d like highlight Kiwis’ take on the report and their feelings about where…

Avondale Schools In Lockdown After Gunman Sighting

The day after the news finally broke that an Indian youth had been seriously injured in a brawl outside of Avondale physiotherapy on Wednesay night, a gunman was allegedly seen in Avondale this afternoon. The alleged sighting launched a massive lockdown of  three schools in the area – Rosebank School, Avondale College and Avondale Intermediate…

Armed Robberies ‘Reach Historic Level’

For a long time now we’ve been highlighting the alarming increase in the number of armed robberies in New Zealand, at one stage we made the comment that it must be the fastest growing occupation in the country (see Clendon Armed Robbery, a family business and Gunman threatens bank customers) Last week’s violent robbery of…