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[Travel] English girl missing in NZ.







clippedgull

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Aug 11, 2003
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I can't understand what the Prime Minister has to apologise about. It's hardly her fault or her country's fault that a scumbag has murdered a tourist.

Being such a small and remote country, tourism/backpacking is huge value to them, I guess the Prime Minister got involved to try and reassure people that murder of tourists is not an everyday event and that NZ is still a safe country to visit. Pretty much a PR event.
 


hans kraay fan club

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Mar 16, 2005
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Being such a small and remote country, tourism/backpacking is huge value to them, I guess the Prime Minister got involved to try and reassure people that murder of tourists is not an everyday event and that NZ is still a safe country to visit. Pretty much a PR event.

Or maybe she’s just genuinely sorry that this has happened :shrug:
 

colinz

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Oct 17, 2010
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Being such a small and remote country, tourism/backpacking is huge value to them, I guess the Prime Minister got involved to try and reassure people that murder of tourists is not an everyday event and that NZ is still a safe country to visit. Pretty much a PR event.

It's interesting that most posters on here that have travelled around NZ, speak highly of the country. But it does have a worrying dark side. That I think is not mentioned in the travel guides.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cr...urists-killed-in-new-zealand-while-travelling
 

seagull_special

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Jun 9, 2008
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I can't understand what the Prime Minister has to apologise about. It's hardly her fault or her country's fault that a scumbag has murdered a tourist.


It’s called collective responsibility. I admire the fact that she feels that NZ has a duty of care to visitors.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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It's interesting that most posters on here that have travelled around NZ, speak highly of the country. But it does have a worrying dark side. That I think is not mentioned in the travel guides.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cr...urists-killed-in-new-zealand-while-travelling

The article highlights 4 deaths in 20 years, I stopped reading after 1998 as the article is nonsense. In context, NZ doesn’t strike me as having a “worrying dark side”. Far from it.
 

Willow

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Jul 6, 2003
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Didcot
The article highlights 4 deaths in 20 years, I stopped reading after 1998 as the article is nonsense. In context, NZ doesn’t strike me as having a “worrying dark side”. Far from it.
[MENTION=17480]colinz[/MENTION] may be better place to judge that, being based in Auckland? There is a strong gang presence in New Zealand and brutal murders are not uncommon. Just last week a pensioner in Wellington was decapitated.
 

Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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NZ is relatively safe in world terms - but then, so is the UK. The NZ homicide rate is about 1 in 100,000 while the UK one is 1.2 per 100,000. So, yes, NZ is safer but not to the extent that the UK media are suggesting.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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[MENTION=17480]colinz[/MENTION] may be better place to judge that, being based in Auckland?.

Maybe. But that article is poor and does not in anyway back up his suggestion.
 

Hampden Park

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Oct 7, 2003
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[MENTION=17480]colinz[/MENTION] may be better place to judge that, being based in Auckland? There is a strong gang presence in New Zealand and brutal murders are not uncommon. Just last week a pensioner in Wellington was decapitated.

are the black power headhunters still going? met some of them in 1979 whilst out on the piss in number 1's. watched them have a shoot out with other gang/cops from the safety of an off license, then couldnt be arsed to wait and bimbled out, much to their amazement
 

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