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Maternity Unit Suspended, DHB Accused of Covering Up Baby Death

Yet more evidence that maternity services in New Zealand have reached breaking point. For background to this issue see Pregnant women ordered out of New Zealand and an article in the February edition of the NZ Listener “New Zealand’s maternity system is an unfortunate experiement from which the rest of the world will learn“ From…

More on the Death of James Patrick Smith – The British Tourist Killed in Queenstown

The Otago Daily Times has published some more on the mysterious death of British man James Patrick Smith in Queenstown, New Zealand who was found at the rear of the Base backpacker hotel in the early hours of yesterday morning. The comments of the manager of Base (who originally “declined to comment”) are rather interesting…

British Tourist Dies in Queenstown

See also: Other Backpacker related incidents in NZFrom The Times Online View Larger Map “A British man has fallen to his death outside a bar in the New Zealand ski resort city of Queenstown. James Patrick Smith, 25, from Kent, fell about 10m from a roof into an alleyway, police in the South Island city…

NZ Immigration Service Needs Urgent Attention

The long awaited Auditor General’s report confirms that all is not well within the NZ immigration service and it’s time to sort it out. From a press release by Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman, Minister of Immigration on 4 June 2009 “Immigration NZ – another time bomb left by Labour” “The release of the Auditor General’s…