Essays on New Zealand

With the recent terrorist attack at a mosque in Christchurch, more than 40 people were killed, and another 50 people were injured. This is known as one of the biggest threads of national peace and security, and the first terrorist attack for us, New Zealand,...

Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in NZ, with over 1000 reverts in the last 20 years and of those, more than a quarter of those who identified as were Maori according to the 2013 census data. Although there are many mosques and...

The New North Zealand Hospital will be the result of consolidating the three existing hospitals across the region and is part of Denmark’s healthcare consolidation programme which includes the redevelopment of 7 hospitals. The New North Zealand Hospital is the 3rd major healthcare building to...

The new exhibit at Te Papa Museum Tūrangawaewae: Te Toi o Aotearoa was the centre of our interest this week. This body of work consisted of both contemporary and historical New Zealand art work in the form of paintings, sculptures and photography. The purpose of...

The majority is not fully aware of the impact of their consumption and decisions might have on themselves later in life. This is because individuals are not having enough information about their private costs and benefits. Main arguments that might come across when trying to...

This article notes how like New Zealand, Switzerland as a country, is portrayed as being a clean and pure country in terms of its landscape, laden with picturesque mountains. Such an image also extends for the Swiss legal and political environment, leading many to adopt...

Precolonial Maori thought elevated land and geographical features as divine, with an individual gaining identity and empowerment from their turangawaewae, literally ‘the place one puts their feet’. Maori creation myths and cosmological belief centre on the birth of man at the union of the ‘earth...