Continuing in our series of migrant tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent in by a physiotherapist who emigrated from the states two months ago. A single mom to two teenage daughters she thought New Zealand would be a safe place to raise them, with nice…
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,…
New Zealand has the highest rate of crystal meth use in the world Yesterday we wrote about lax gun control in New Zealand and exposure of Kiwi children to a firearms culture. Today we’re writing about the perfect storm: a 12 year old boy high on methamphetamine robbing a shop with a rifle, all for…
The team at E2NZ.org are saddened to learn of the death of 14 month old Christchurch toddler Ihaka Stokes. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family and wider whanau. Ihaka died from multiple blunt force fractures in an extremely violent assault, according to police. Detective Inspector Greg Murton said Ihaka’s injuries included several fractured bones and…
It’s not that New Zealand is not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, its reality is just different from yours. This is the country where the leading academics think the solution to high teenage pregnancy rates is to fit all girls with IUDs before they become sexually active. Mass birth control for young girls in New…
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