We are very saddened to learn of yet another school attack in New Zealand and that it had a ‘gang’ connection. This time it was at Flaxmere College, Hastings, during recess three weeks ago and the girl is still recovering from her injuries: A 14-year-old girl is expected to spend weeks in hospital after being…
This week on Television New Zealand’s Close Up: “Reporter Jehan Casinader investigates what life is like in one of our toughest towns. Sex for drugs and organised fights – and we’re talking about teenagers. What can be done to help?.” The show hasn’t even aired yet and no one know what the town is, but…
Sept 2015 update, sent in by a reader: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/08/burts-bees-neonics-and-poisoning-our-food All fruit and vegetable samples (except nectarine and tomato) and 90% of honey samples were detected positive for at least one neonicotinoid; 72% of fruits, 45% of vegetables and 50% of honey samples contained at least two different neonicotinoids in one sample, with imidacloprid having the…
In the last few days we’ve been blogging about bullying, a culture of brutality, assaults on children and the controversial ‘anti-smacking’ legislation in supposedly child friendly New Zealand. In the blog about a father being acquitted of child brutality (despite his admission that he’d tied his son by his wrist and then by his neck,…
Any one who has been reading this blog on a regular basis knows that for a long time we’ve often highlighted New Zealand’s shameful road death and injury record, one of the worst in the OECD. One of the most vulnerable group of road users in New Zealand are cyclists and the rate at which…
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