Kaikoura is turning into the Marlborough equivalent of Christchurch’s eastern suburbs, a residential area that was affected badly during the Christchurch earthquakes. And it looks as if the same, tired solutions will be used in Kaikoura that were used in Christchurch: people are likely to be homed in expensive caravans and mobile homes that will…
Some years ago we wrote about the restrictions that are placed on academics in New Zealand that effectively shut down debate and are a form of censorship. The reason for putting New Zealand’s academics under state control is that they have the potential to be politically embarrassing. More recently, it has emerged that academics…
A few days ago we wrote about a New Zealand Herald article that was critical of the government handling of an early years child care report, and how government propaganda had been used to bury bad news. Since then the original article on which our story was based has been removed from the NZ Herald’s web…
In today’s press there are two examples of how New Zealand is good at promoting its image, but it fails when required to actually deliver on the details. In other words the country’s mythology doesn’t live up to the daily realities. Here’s the problem. Too much mythology is used to promote New Zealand as…
In part two of our coverage of the reaction to Nicky Hager’s book “Dirty Politics“we’ll be looking at the public reaction via Twitter and social media. It looks like New Zealand may be having its own Watergate scandal unraveling, seats are going to be sold out when Glenn Greenwald visits New Zealand to make revelations…
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