A reminder today that violent crime continues unabated in most of New Zealand’s small communities, large towns and cities. This is the real middle earth, more Orc than Hobbit. The Manawatu Standard‘s headline: Father and son pulled from ute and attacked with baseball bats in Palmerston North A man and his teenage son were the victims…
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…
The mother of abducted Shekinah Relies-Skipper said she will never again let her child walk alone to school. The five year old girl was snatched off the street yesterday after a man had been seen hanging around the area for some days. The girl’s 7 and 8 year old sisters tried to fight off the man as he threw…
Welcome redditors – read more about New Zealand here: http://e2nz.org Writer, actor, and tall person, John Cleese, is taking his life in his hands and making a return trip to New Zealand. In 2005 the British comedian left residents in Palmerston North smarting by describing it as New Zealand’s “suicide capital”. Cleese said he had…
New Zealand is presented often as having a ‘world class’ health system, however it is underfunded and understaffed, with some regions suffering from a severe lack of medical specialists. By April 2015, according to the World Health Organisation, New Zealand health system ranked 41st in the world, behind Singapore at 6th, the UK at 18th, Australia at 32nd,…
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