What’s all this then, we’ll have no trouble here. The casting agent involved in yesterday’s Hobbit ‘skingate’ scandal has been terminated from the job, according to a report in Stuff: …The agent, an independent contractor, had also placed a newspaper ad saying female hobbit extras should have “light skin tones”. A spokesman for Jackson’s Wingnut…
The Age is this morning is reporting on a race row that has broken out in New Zealand over a casting call for hobbits, of all things. British woman, Naz Humhpreys, a social policy researcher on a working holiday in NZ and who is of Pakistani descent, attended a Hobbit casting call for the forthcoming…
Our popular series of Migrant Tales – first hand account of the immigrant experience of New Zealand, taken from places around the net – is now well into its fifth chapter, click on the the tab above if you want to read some of them. Today’s tale was first published on Expatexposed.com, a not-for-profit NZ…
Our popular Migrant Tales series is now running into chapter 5. The latest tale in the series was published today, a copy of which appears below. More Migrant Tales may be found be clicking on any of the chapters under the tab Migrant Tales – Immigrant Stories NZ at the top of this page. This…
TVNZ host has resigned from national broadcaster TVNZ. In his resignation statement, the full text of which may be found here, he said: …I have apologised twice, and have meant every word. I again apologise to all those who were genuinely hurt by what I said. However, it is clear that things have now reached…
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