“New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree to a Job Interview” and The LookSee Wellington Privacy Fail

This is a copy of a post that was back-linked from the Hacker News site recently, regarding paid trips to NZ to attend job interviews. The interviews are for IT/Tech jobs in Wellington (Ed. apparently, New Zealand is short of low-paid, but skilled, tech workers right now so they thought they’d trawl abroad for people).…

Gordon Bennett! Paula is Taking Names. Again

Government minister Paula Bennett has got herself into yet another Twitter privacy stoush after demanding someone make their name public on the social networking site. Diversionary tactics are commonplace in New Zealand (Prime Minister Key got himself thrown out of parliament yesterday, rather than answer questions). But one minister in particular has a creepy, more…