“Concerns over alcohol-fuelled violence as rebuild workers move into Kaikoura”

We’re advising tourists and migrants alike to give Kaikoura a wide berth over the next 18 months or so as the township turns into the NZ equivalent of an Australian “mining camp”. Around 400 workers are due to flood in to the small township (est. pop. 2,080) to start on reconstruction work. “Alcohol fuelled violence…

It’s Getting Weirder and Weirder in New Zealand

Two recently published Guardian newspaper articles show how down-right weird New Zealand has become. The first quotes Prime Minister Key (famous for his prison soap and ponytail capers) lambasting his fellow countrymen for being lazy stoners. Apparently, thousands of migrants are flooding in (mostly from China and India) while 200,000 locals kick-back and toke-up. The…

Area 64

Updated 16 March 2016 Recently E2NZ.org has been getting some traffic from backlinks to reddit discussions about something known as Area 64 (presumably based on the international area code for New Zealand?) and we’re aware of some defamatory remarks that have been made about either the E2NZ.org site admin or our members. Area 64 and…