Silent Death Toll In World’s Eighth Happiest Country

New Zealand was recently judged to be the world’s eight happiest country according to Gallap Poll Data that appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That report highlights just another startling disconnect within New Zealand, which often happens when perceptions don’t marry with hard facts. We wonder to what degree that is caused…

Family Gets $200,000 Bill For House Fire

Our sympathies go out to a young family who lost all their belongings in a  house fire and who were then slapped with a $200,000 insurance bill for the damage. The couple, Toni Mita  and Ngatoa Ngauru are in their early 20s and have two small children. Caught in a poverty trap and unable to…

Dying Motorcyclist Laughed At As He Lay Dying

One of our readers sent in the link to this story this morning, it’s a shocking example of New Zealand’s culture of brutality and of the callous disregard held by some Kiwis toward  fellow human beings. A few days ago we talked about the film Toby Brennan being shot in Christchurch because the people there…

Jobless NZ Youth “A Ticking Time Bomb”

Thinking about emigrating to New Zealand because it’s a great place to raise kids? Think again because according to Labour’s youth affairs spokeswoman, Jacinda Ardern,  more than 70,000 people in the 15 to 24 age group are not at work, or in education or training and youth unemployment is a ticking timebomb. As far as…