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…
Part of the massive arsenal of weapons and ammunition stolen from a private home in Bucklands Beach has turned up in the hands of Northland criminals. In June last year we wrote about how the cache went missing on the eve of the anti-gun initiative “Operation Unification” an Australasian-wide two-week campaign aimed at encouraging the public…
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton recently made some well considered criticism of the New Zealand government (read Eleanor Catton’s Illuminating Take on New Zealand, and It’s Culture of Anti-Intellectualism) Prime Minister John Key was very quick to rebut Catton’s remarks, even though they weren’t aimed at him specifically. That he chose to criticize Catton, while subtly promoting…
A police officer who used his work issued iPhone to take grubby photos of a young, teenaged girl has been awarded name suppression, though he didn’t get the discharge without conviction he was hoping for. The 48 year old man, who resigned from the Otago police shortly after his offending was discovered, took pictures of…
Continuing in our very popular series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent in by a well published, post-doctoral scientist with a background in research chemistry, his career has taken a turn for the worse since moving to New Zealand. This is his story.…
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