Poverty and drugs on Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast

Spotted on the Hibiscus Coast Facebook page. Something to be aware of if you’re intending to emigrate with a young family to this area: Click to enlarge

Migrant Tales – There’s a club and you’re not in it

Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from places around the net. Today’s tale was recently posted on a commercialised emigration forum, the author is an expat in the UK, and this was their contribution to a thread on the topic of 20% of…

NZ’s Human Rights Record Stained by Child Poverty, Lack of Investment in its Young: Amnesty International; UNICEF and OECD

Amnesty International Report 2013 270,000 children, yes 270,000, children are now living in poverty in New Zealand, a country infamous for its low wage culture. New Zealand’s high level of child poverty, violence against women and a proposed law affecting asylum seekers came under fire in Amnesty International’s Annual Report on the state of…

NZ Poverty Not A Lifestyle Choice, Poor Families Can’t Even Afford Basics

In February we wrote about John Key’s comments when asked about poverty and food banks in New Zealand, i.e. that beneficiaries who resort to food banks do so out of their own “poor choices” rather than because they cannot afford food. This may be of interest to you if you are considering emigrating to New…