What’s all this then, we’ll have no trouble here. The casting agent involved in yesterday’s Hobbit ‘skingate’ scandal has been terminated from the job, according to a report in Stuff: …The agent, an independent contractor, had also placed a newspaper ad saying female hobbit extras should have “light skin tones”. A spokesman for Jackson’s Wingnut…
The Age is this morning is reporting on a race row that has broken out in New Zealand over a casting call for hobbits, of all things. British woman, Naz Humhpreys, a social policy researcher on a working holiday in NZ and who is of Pakistani descent, attended a Hobbit casting call for the forthcoming…
What people are saying about this blog “I might go on there and add my complaints about the very low wages and the fact they cut the tails off dairy cows.” “I totally agree with alot of the things said on the site. Most Kiwis know of the huge problems, but just don’t like being…
It’s been a bad few days for bullying in New Zealand, with the topic very much at the forefront of discussion again. These things have a tendency to go in cycles in New Zealand – they flare up every now and then, get discussed earnestly for a while then get conveniently forgotten about. Bullying is…
This account was recently added to our highly popular Migrant Tales series, we’re putting it on the daily blog because it covers so many issues that exasperate migrants in New Zealand at present, it also demonstrates why so many are leaving. This tale was originally published on a British expats emigration forum. The author is…
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