Cost of Crime In Palmerston North

Remember our blog, Palmerston North’s Wikipedia Entry Censored? We discussed the curious incident of crime references being edited out of the town’s Wikipedia page because it was putting-off professionals from relocating to the area. We all know that there is an issue with crime in Palmerston North, and its effects are having a big impact on one…

Teacher Guilty Of Assaults On Children

In the last few days we’ve been blogging about bullying, a culture of brutality, assaults on children and the controversial ‘anti-smacking’ legislation in supposedly child friendly New Zealand. In the blog about a father being acquitted  of child brutality (despite his admission that he’d tied his son by his wrist and then by his neck,…

Flaxmere Teacher Guilty Of Assault

People who read this blog regularly will know that one of the topics we are most concerned about is the culture of brutality in New Zealand, in all its manifest forms. We often write about bullying, both in the workplace and at school; of child abuse, violence in the home, the street and on the…