New Zealand is officially a secular state, it’s main religion is rugby and absolution may be found through sport, but this is taking things a little too far even in a country with a Godzone complex. St Paul’s Cathedral in Wellington is displaying a painting by local artist, Don Little entitled, “New Zealand Icon”. It…
Thinking about emigrating to Nelson, looking for a lifestyle change – somewhere great to raise the kids? Nelson is often regarded as being a genteel sort of place. It is one of those sort of towns that the arts and crafts set, retired people and the ‘middle classes’ make a bee-line for when emigrating to…
More children and young people have been injured in an horrific brawl that took place in Hastings at 5pm yesterday. In what sounds suspiciously like a gang fight (NZ press now coyly use the term “group“) involving machetes and golf clubs, a ‘group’ of youths attacked 17 year old Saili Fiso, pushing him through a…
(scroll to bottom for update) The following notification appeared in the Northern Advocate, 11 April 2010 “The Solicitor General is considering whether to appeal the 11-and-a-half year jail term handed down to a Kerikeri teenager convicted of murdering schoolgirl Liberty Templeman. Whangarei Crown prosecutor Mike Smith sent a request to Wellington asking for a possible…
The independent New Zealand Institute has ranked New Zealand 5th in a list of 30 OECD countries for its high murder rate according to the Herald: “The murder and manslaughter of about 100 people a year makes New Zealand one of the most violent countries in the developed world, according to a new independent report.…
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