Two recently published Guardian newspaper articles show how down-right weird New Zealand has become. The first quotes Prime Minister Key (famous for his prison soap and ponytail capers) lambasting his fellow countrymen for being lazy stoners. Apparently, thousands of migrants are flooding in (mostly from China and India) while 200,000 locals kick-back and toke-up. The…
Update 26 July 2016: 10th homicide in seven years, third knife attack in a week – is Kaitaia the murder capital of NZ? If you’re looking for violent crime, you can pick any town in New Zealand. It isn’t that hard. Until the National led government started interfering with reporting requirements by making “procedural changes…
A week out from Christmas we thought we’d do a round up of the news headlines to see whether there’s a scrap of seasonal goodwill to be found in New Zealand. What we found was that it is pretty bleak in this dismal land… The front page of the Herald website leads with “Car obliterated in crash,…
There’s an interesting article in Russia Beyond the Headlines on 31 May 2015 describing the experience of Russian migrants in New Zealand: Russians chase the New Zealand Dream. It will resonate with many of our readers, not just the Russians but those who are migrants from Western Countries. According to Russian immigrants, New Zealand…
There’s been another armed standoff in North Shore, this time in the suburb of Glenfield. Armed police have led a man out of an Auckland house in handcuffs after the property and surrounding streets were put in lockdown this morning. Camrose Place in Glenfield, on Auckland’s North Shore, was swarmed by armed police just…
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