Female MPs Stand Up to Sexual Violence – Silenced and Ejected from NZ’s Parliament. Sexual Violence “Rampant in NZ Society”

The recent treatment of female MPs who bravely made a stand against sexual violence in the New Zealand parliament has caught the attention of the world’s media. The UK’s Daily Mail wrote: Women have stood up one after another to reveal their stories of sexual violence before being forced to be quiet and leave New…

Nicky Hager’s “Dirty Politics” Book Kicks Up a Storm in New Zealand. Part Two

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…

Maggie Barry, and the “Prominent” NZ Sex Offender Released without Conviction and with Name Suppression -updated 17 Nov 2014

Update 17/11/14 An ex-MP has revealed what he alleges is the suppressed name of the ex-sporting star on Twitter, Stuff reported on the tweet adding Last month the woman involved, Louise Hemsley, successfully applied to lift her automatic name suppression – granted by law to all victims of sexual offending…source .New Zealand’s criminal justice system…

Muhammed Rizalman Bin Ismail at Centre of NZ v. Malaysia PR War. NZ Apologises For a “performance that was below the standard that should be expected of the New Zealand Foreign Ministry”

The allegations of rape and burglary made against Malaysian diplomat Muhammed Rizalman Bin Ismail have paled into insignificance compared to the PR war that has broken out between the two countries. Yesterday, Fairfax media got the suppression order lifted. Their case was probably helped by the many Malaysians who were already openly talking about the…