New Zealand Continues its Fall in the Human Development Index, 9th is the New 1st

Read any New Zealand based report about this year’s United Nation’s HDI results and you’d miss that fact that New Zealand has fallen in the rankings for consecutive years since it peaked in 2010. Instead you’d be forgiven, if you read the New Zealand media, for thinking that ninth place is as good as first…

What They Say about E2NZ.org Part 2

Continuing in our series of “What they say about E2Nz.org”. For Part 1 click here This thread was posted on the She Just Called You Pakeha, Ohh Hell No! Hold My Stolen Land Facebook page. Here’s how it started, a rant against E2NZ for opening up the debate about how racism impacts adversely on tourists…

Kiwi Dad Gets Around

Hat tip to  @pauljacobs4real  on Twitter who spotted the same actor playing Dad in the supermarket adverts for Countdown NZ and Woolworths Australia. This is a screen shot from “Meet the Colemans” video from Countdown NZ. Here the actor is playing the part of Rob, he’s  married to Nikki and they  have children called Jess, Wills…

NZ Property Market In A Spin

A matter of days ago the NZ Herald faithfully, and with a straight-face, reproduced Barfoot and Tompson’s report that Auckland’s residential property market in March was at a four year high, exceeding “anything we’d ever experienced” according to Barfoot’s managing director Peter Thompson (read “Auckland house sales reach four year high“) Apparently the average selling…