New Zealand is officially a secular state, it’s main religion is rugby and absolution may be found through sport, but this is taking things a little too far even in a country with a Godzone complex. St Paul’s Cathedral in Wellington is displaying a painting by local artist, Don Little entitled, “New Zealand Icon”. It…
February 2009 we wrote about a large scale brawl at Hutt Valley High School and a series of disturbing serious assaults at the school which resulted in parents calling for an investigation by the Human Rights Commissioner into human rights abuses at the Wellington school. We wrote in Gang fight at Hutt Valley High School…
A trip to McDonalds is considered to be an valid educational opportunity for 5-7 year old Wilford school children in the Wellington suburb of Petone. Whilst there is merit in examining the process involved in food production and discussing the effects of an unhealthy diet, the raison d’être for this excursion fails miserably as soon…
A matter of days ago the NZ Herald faithfully, and with a straight-face, reproduced Barfoot and Tompson’s report that Auckland’s residential property market in March was at a four year high, exceeding “anything we’d ever experienced” according to Barfoot’s managing director Peter Thompson (read “Auckland house sales reach four year high“) Apparently the average selling…
Yesterday we covered United Future’s release of the list of Wellington’s 808 potentially earthquake prone buildings. Mr Dunne said “I do not think people will behave in a knee-jerk way with this information, but they do have a right to know and make informed decisions about whether they wish to be in buildings that are…
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