Figures released by the education ministry show that New Zealand ranks 21st out of 28 OECD countries for spending on primary school pupils – $6939, per head. For secondary schools fair even worse and are ranked 23rd with $8470 spent per pupil. The spend per head is way below the OECD averages of $9021 for…
Another violent death has taken place in New Zealand. The body of a 47 year old man was found in a two bedroom flat in Lansdowne in the Wairarapa. Police discovered him during a call-out at 3am today and attempts to resuscitate him failed. Reports say that police are talking to a man in connection…
(scroll to bottom for update) The following notification appeared in the Northern Advocate, 11 April 2010 “The Solicitor General is considering whether to appeal the 11-and-a-half year jail term handed down to a Kerikeri teenager convicted of murdering schoolgirl Liberty Templeman. Whangarei Crown prosecutor Mike Smith sent a request to Wellington asking for a possible…
This was found on a site called TrueSlant.com and we’re including it in our collection of Kiwi Talk pages. It was written by New Zealander Scott Alexander Young, aka ‘Jet Set Hobbo’, and is about the recently released New Zealand Institute’s Report that stated that New Zealand has one of the worst murder rates in…
Yesterday we published a Migrant Tale showing one immigrant’s reaction to New Zealand’s poor ratings in the NZ Institute’s ‘State of the Nation’ report and new figures that had just been released showing that the country’s crime figures had sky rocketed. Today we’d like highlight Kiwis’ take on the report and their feelings about where…
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