(Scroll to bottom of page for update) Back in November we talked about how New Zealand had a higher rate of economic crime than its near neighbours, way above the world average: a massive 42% of businesses in New Zealand had suffered economic fraud in the previous 12 months against a global average of 30%.…
The trial of a teenager charged with the murder of British school girl Liberty Rose Templeman has got underway at the High Court in Whangarei. The boy, who was 14 at the time that Libby died, has entered not guilty pleas to the charges of murder and indecent assault. Various sources have said that the…
The furore over New Zealand’s name suppression laws is going to be given a fresh impetus with the announcement that permanent name suppression has been granted to a “prominent” Manawatu man convicted of downloading more than 300,000 pornographic images, “many of them children“: “The man, who was charged with 25 counts of possessing objectionable material…
Carjackings in NZ aren’t unusual by any means* (they’ve been called NZ’s “new home invasion”) but their frequency seems is increasing at an alarming rate. Is it a protracted craze arising from playing a certain type of video game and if so should games like that be banned, or is this just an unwillingness to…
Attempts to prevent the “Poisoning Paradise” documentary from screening at the AMRISTA film festival have failed.
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