That one thing that can kill you

New Zealand is known for the absence of dangerous animals. In contrast to its Auzzie neighbour it is neither home to giant horrifying spiders nor to jelly fish whose venom can kill a human within minutes. There are not even snakes in NZ. Okay occasionally, a shark drops…

100 % Pure — 100% Wishful Thinking

As you already may have guessed from the title in this post I would like to comment on New Zealands 100 % Pure tourism campaign. A campaign which received much criticism and mockery for its false statement. A statement which promises a New Zealand of untouched and…

100% Pure New Zealand ?!

When you google New Zealand chances of finding tourism advertisments with the slogan: “100% Pure New Zealand” are inevitable. Images and videos like the offical tourism commercial of New Zealand show up and try to attract the attention towards New Zealand’s beautiful and untouched…

The Community Life in New Zealand

Like America or Australia, New Zealand had been a colony with indigenous people before European settlers arrived. Another…

Changing a Flag is Expensive

Changing the flag of a country isn’t as easy as it might look like in the first place and it’s also really expensive.

So first of all there has to be a reason for changing the flag. In the case of New Zealand there is a pretty obvious reason, for…

The Flag Referendum… again.

So New Zealand has chosen: the old flag remains the same, with 56.6% votes, and the new designed flag will not be used as NZ’s flag because it only got 43.2% votes. There has been a lot of debate going on about wether to keep the old flag or not. Kiwi’s who voted in favor of the…

SEA regional development and New Zealand’s shifting role

So last week from Sunday to Wednesday I was at the invite-only 49th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Frankfurt as the youth representative of Plan International Germany.

New Zealand’s flag debate

Even though the flag referendum is already over, it is still a highly controversial issue. The main reasons for a change of New Zealand’s national flag are pretty obvious: the Union Jack that is placed on top left of the flag immediately reminds us of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…

Discovering History

So we have discovered most of New Zealands history in class by now. Thinking that we know now how everything started there with the Polynesian settlers and later on, with the first European navigators discovering the island.

Really a cool story, you picked! Liked to read more of that stuff. ;-)