Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. This recent story is from the discussion forum Expatexposed. It tells how grinding penny pinching becomes a way of life in NZ with nothing to compensate it, rather than a short term measure…
The furore over New Zealand’s name suppression laws is going to be given a fresh impetus with the announcement that permanent name suppression has been granted to a “prominent” Manawatu man convicted of downloading more than 300,000 pornographic images, “many of them children“: “The man, who was charged with 25 counts of possessing objectionable material…
(See update at bottom of page) Also read from 2012 – Dogs used in racist attacks on Asian people in Christchurch and Gone to the dogs: How to stop the attacks (“Dog attacks put 500 New Zealanders in hospital each year. Andrew Stone looks at how to get the most dangerous breeds under control. Eight…
Yesterday as part our Migrant Stories series we entered an account from a British person, who’d lived in New Zealand and returned to the UK, titled “Why I think New Zealand is backward“. Her post was made on an emigration forum frequented mainly by British people and some New Zealanders. It drew a massive response,…
Continuing our series of first hand migrant accounts from around the net. This post was made on a British expatriate web forum. It was written by a teacher who lived in New Zealand for two years before returning to the UK. “HiSomeone asked me this week in a post how I could describe New Zealand…
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