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The following is a list of governmental and public sector scandals in New Zealand.While New Zealand generally scores very well on international indices of corruption, there have been several notable high-profile scandals including cases of cover-ups relating to politics, economics, or public sector debacles, or to the private lives of individual government representatives.
In the 2023 Index, New Zealand earned the third highest score worldwide, 85. The best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180). [13] In the Asia Pacific region [Note 1] New Zealand's was the highest score. The average regional score was 45 and the lowest was 17. [14]
In response to these social problems, Prime Minister Kirk created a special police task force in Auckland in 1973 which was tasked with dealing with overstayers. From approximately 12 March 1974 the New Zealand Police conducted night and dawn raids against overstayers which sparked criticism from human rights groups and sections of the press.
The decision was challenged by the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties. [61] The High Court [ a ] ruled the book indecent for having an undue emphasis on sex that would corrupt the reader. The ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal in a 2–1 decision.
The Cook Islands is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand, which provides budget support and commits to defend the South Pacific nation, whose people are New Zealand citizens.
The Obscene Publications Act 1857 was one of the earliest censorious acts in New Zealand. Aimed at "works written with the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of nature calculated to shock the common feeling of decency in any well regulated mind", it laid out a process by which obscene works could be destroyed, but did not explicitly define what could be considered an obscene ...
Crime in New Zealand encompasses criminal law, crime statistics, the nature and characteristics of crime, sentencing, punishment, and public perceptions of crime.
While the 1840s were a bad time for workers and the poor—the decade was dubbed “the hungry forties”—the trend was toward a less precarious life. ... Australia, and New Zealand. Victorian ...