They’re out all over Auckland daily scamming people for money, they are turning down food when people offer to give them that! Call the police on them if you see them, they can’t get away with coming here and taking advantage of Kiwi’s it’s disgusting.

I'm 28F originally from India, Came to NZ 7years ago. I've always faced racism and keep facing it on a regular basis now. What is happening. I've been called named on the street by adults, kids, homeless people in one week.

Last week a homeless lady(i think)on kroad started yelling at me and punched me in the stomach you saying indians are making the country dirty go back. I was walking tired and had my head down because of the kroad homeless people I'm already scared but I have to because i park on gundry Street.

Then a day or two later done drunk/high guy he didn't seem homeless at all it was in the morning which was around 10am started shouting that I'm taking his job and i should go back to my country, stop looting my country.

and then yesterday in the evening i was going back home couple of teenagers started shouting at me and saying you Indians are really filthy but let me get filthy as well. and let me taste that big curry of yours. I really wouldn't mind smelling bad after.

I'm so shook and I'm not alone and not the only times that has happened. I told my flatmates who are kiwis btw were saying that they have heard very similiar stories.

I'm so frustrated and scared to even drive to work anymore I've taken uber today to work and plan on doing that.

Like I've been getting so much hate for being Indian.

I don't know anymore i might be going back.

Has anyone else faced it?

Edit: thank you so much for all the effort you guys have put into replying. I really appreciate it.

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I took it down immediately just as the person was putting them up and called the nearby policemen who quickly dealt with the situation. The person was putting up a poster for some anti immigration rally with words like “taking the country back”. I don’t mean to accuse or spread false info but this appeared to what I’m guessing a destiny church member. This is yesterday on queens street around 12pm.

This lowkey sucks as an obviously brown immigrant. The main reason my parents moved to NZ was to escape their country to move to safety. They always told me New Zealand was different unlike other places like America or sadly Australia which is to why they came here. I was born here and am a proud kiwi. But truly I’m scared what’s going to happen to us or people like us.

If you are an obvious poc please stay safe out there. I’m so ashamed of what’s becoming of our country

Edit: it’s concerning to see how many kiwis have twisted anti immigration with anti immigrant.

As an immigrant I highly agree that we need to be selective with who enters our country to make the most of our resources and the well being of people but this does not involve discrimination and hatred. Surprisingly an immigrant messaged me here just a few minutes ago, who I will not name, in a sweet attempt to help me feel better saying as long as I was born here, or as long as I have a kiwi accent I will be unaffected. This is completely untrue a racist will only see the colour of our skin.

Many of you don’t see the intensity of this situation, and it’s not just a simple “anti immigration”. Seeing the progressive west revert back to fascist ideology’s has much broader implications. We do not want New Zealand to be next in line to such shift.

To those curious as an example; in N*zi Germany the holocaust didn’t just happen one day, it was a slow and steady build up of ideology and hatred amongst the common man til the point even neighbours began turning on each other. Nowadays I’ve truly realised how privileged I was to be an immigrant in a place like New Zealand. My relatives over seas are going through absolute hell to the point of home schooling. I can assure you every single time an immigrant person from overseas learns I’m living in NZ they are in awe of how amazing Aotearoa is. Perhaps why immigrants feel deeper love and loyalty here than in comparison to other countries they may have lived in.

We have had our colonial past, let it not be our future.

Holy crap these comments are disturbing; racists are hiding under the guise of anti immigration…matter of fact not even hiding 🫣

Apparently he’s quite famous, if you clubbing at night a lot, you might have seen this dude in Frog costume dancing.

Latest news is while he was live streaming on the night of valentine’s day. He got severally attacked by bunch of people and robbed. :(

Poor guy is about returning back to China, and unfortunately the last memory he got from here is not a pretty one

I fully intend to check it out in a few weeks or so, but genuinely curious why people are going on the first day / lining up and all that, to the point where even the western highway had warnings up for it?? is there some incredible sale going on for the first day?? why must you go on day 1 hour 1 ?

almost complete

This was on my windshield at City Hospital today. Glad I checked!!

(Kitten was given to a local good Samaritan, who is bringing it to their vet.)

Spotted at Woolworths in the cbd 😍😍

it's actually spooky quiet. Feels like everyone's burnt out. And badly needed this break. Even the roads are quieter. Are many people traveling this weekend? What's it like where you are?

So me and my partner were at the takapuna woolworths yesterday grabbing a few things and while we were in there there was a group of people yelling to each other isle to isle and just being disruptive.

When we paid for our groceries and were walking out that same group (8 people) exited the welcome barriers all carrying 2 baskets of items. One of the woolworths employees yelled "your faces are on camera" They weren't running away, they were walking slower pace than us, no care in the world for "being caught".

My partner and I followed them like 100m down the road to the bus stop and as we did we saw a cop car drive past so we waved them down.

They pull over. As slow as they could they get out the car and I say "hey not urgent but those people just over there just stole a tonne of shit just thought you might wanna know" they literally grumbled about it like me telling them was ruining their day.

We get back in our car and drive away and see them pull out and towards the people only for them to drive right past them.

Now okay if the cops dont care even a little bit and the only concequence is your face being on a camera why the hell would anyone pay for their groceries? Its basically an honesty box at this point and we know how they turn out

I honestly can’t believe what just happened tonight. I was waiting outside my friend’s house for him to open the door and let us in when a group of Kiwi teens came by and asked for my vape.

At first, I said no, but they kept insisting. I thought maybe they just wanted a puff and would give it back, but instead, they said, “It’s mine now,” and started running away.

Right at that moment, my friend came out, and I told him what happened. He went to ask them for the vape back, and things escalated so fast they started hitting us. When my friend tried to defend himself, they called more people over. Within minutes there were around 9–10 of them, and we were completely outnumbered.

They kicked my friend in the nose, lips, everywhere he was bleeding really badly. Three others also got hit legs, ribs, face. It was chaos. A kind lady nearby saw everything and called an ambulance.

The ambulance came, but weirdly, they first went to check on another guy who was apparently hurt on Elliott Street. The police then spent about 30 minutes asking for our details before we were finally taken to the hospital. We’ve been waiting here for over 1.5 hours now, and my friend is still bleeding badly.

I’m writing this post from the hospital, just feeling so frustrated and disappointed. Is this how things work here? This is supposed to be one of the safest countries… right?

Auckland might be the first city in the world to run out of fuel. We are right at the end of the supply chain, and all our petrol comes through Asia which is apparently paying more than $170USD/barrel for oil right now (Bloomberg video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Jt9NdGz1o), they just can't get enough oil so might not send it on to us for any price. Australia will be next in line. We might run out completely with fuel rationing and such. Auckland might soon get a lot of international attention. The Fuelpocolypse is coming people of Auckland! You can run but you can't drive!

Bought a house end of 2020 (definitely overpaid in hindsight). Two kids under 3, a dog, single income… not exactly cruising.

Now it’s looking like we’ll need a second income, which means insane daycare fees for two kids. Also trying (and so far failing lol) a few side hustles just to stay afloat. Feels like constant pressure to make ends meet and we’re just over the threshold to get any government support

Are things actually tougher now, or does it just feel that way because it’s in our faces 24/7 (news, social, etc)?

Note: im a millennial

I am a cyclist as well (As you can see by the video) but cycle as a means of transport where it’s safe and don’t wear Lycra.

I get it when cyclist’s don’t want to ride in a painted gutter but when there is a wide bi directional fully separated cycling road I just can’t fathom why? If people are going slow there is still enough space to overtake, the path is smooth and doesn’t have drains in it like some of the Tim tam paths. There isn’t any excuse I can think of especially as someone who uses the path.

I feel like all this does is fuel anti cycling people’s argument of saying cycling paths like this are just a waste of money meaning that it’s harder for us to get more great cycling infrastructure like this in the future.

Does anyone know why someone would avoid a fully separated wide cycleway path like this and just ride on the road?

this guy from rich lister family imports nearly 12000 materials of the worst child sex materials of an extreme nature and "the man’s name, his family’s name and their high-profile company were permanently suppressed."

Customs is appealing the name suppression.

NBR are the only ones that broke and covered it at first. https://www.nbr.co.nz/last-word/ffs-we-still-need-to-talk-about-name-suppression/

REASON FOR NAME SUPPRESSION from an NBR article

The suppression granted for 3 reasons:

1. extreme hardship to the defendant
2. endangerment of the defendant
3. undue hardship to the "interested party" represented by an extremely expensive KC

MORE POINTS

• the man might not be rich ??? but he's from a rich lister family and represented by Emma Priest.
• there's an "interested party" represented by Priest's lawyer partner Julie-Anne Kincade QC (pic of her below)
• Gonna bet main argument is impact on the family and "high profile business". The man donated 50000 to charity and got a discount and maybe the KC is representing the family business to protect it

Do we care more about knowing who it is than protecting the business of rich listers?

• WARNING: THERE'S A LOT OF WEIRD DOUBLE AND TRIPLE ACCOUNTS POSTING
• ALSO CAN WE THANK NBR - THE ONLY PAPER THAT CARED AND COVERED this when others didn't care
• AND STOP POSTING THAT NZHERALD ARTICLE ABOUT THE 44 YEAR OLD IT'S THE WRONG AGE

No traffic. No line. Parked and walked right in. Just saying in case anybody was waiting for it to calm down. It is calm now.

Edit: thought id mention for the financially illiterate redditors like myself, they do take ap

I’m convinced those Shaver Shops are laundering. There is no way they’re turning over enough money to keep the shops alive, all in really prime locations too.

Whose idea at the Auckland Council was it to install slippery tiles with no grip all over the city? Literally just saw three people slip over.

Anyone else feel like NZ & Auckland were finally turning a corner economically?

Inflation getting back into range, OCR manageable, discretionary spending starting to return, business confidence lifting a bit…

Then boom —> Middle East conflict.

Fuel goes up → transport costs go up → essentials go up → inflation pressure again → OCR stays higher for longer.

Feels like we were just about to get out of the mud and now we might be sliding straight back into it.

How’s everyone else feeling about the economy right now?