Welcome to our very popular series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of life in New Zealand. Today’s tale was told in response to this article: A small town in New Zealand, or the Kiwi who came in from the cold. In it the author tells of how after nearly 20 years of living…
Some of New Zealand’s tough backstreet gangs are rapidly gaining a foothold in Australia, leading to calls for Australia’s ‘anti-bikie’ laws to be changed to include street gangs. Mongrel Mob launches Gold Coast chapter https://t.co/ASfaaFjig9 pic.twitter.com/cKALO02I2L — nzherald (@nzherald) February 21, 2016 These gangs have been entrenched in New Zealand culture for decades, making millions…
Welcome to our popular Migrant Tales series – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Here’s another tale from the ex-CIB officer. This one is about a computer training course and Christchurch “So…after some wonderful feedback and encouragement from you, I would like to contribute further to this great site, this…
Update: The deceased woman has been identified as 41 year old mother of two children, Joanne Marie Pert. Her father Kevin Pert described her as “Super-qualified. She was an accountant and had a medical degree, and was a great sportswoman”. Ms Pert is believed to have once lived in London, she is survived by…
Continuing in our very popular Migrant Tales series, first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand. Today’s was sent in by a reader. His story is one of the bravest and most well written accounts E2NZ.org has received. If you are a professional about to migrate to New Zealand his tale is compulsory reading.…
Read any New Zealand based report about this year’s United Nation’s HDI results and you’d miss that fact that New Zealand has fallen in the rankings for consecutive years since it peaked in 2010. Instead you’d be forgiven, if you read the New Zealand media, for thinking that ninth place is as good as first…
Next time you see one of those surveys that tells you what a great place New Zealand is to raise kids, and how you should move there because its ‘so good for families’ and ‘work life balance’ you may like to look at the truth behind the myth. Things for families aren’t so great in…
