St Mary’s Star of the Sea Church in Gisborne was spray-painted with racist obscenities and anti-religious insults last week. Abusive messages against the Christian religion and Pakeha were spray-painted in green on the state highway side of the church, next to Campion College, on Wednesday night. Parish priest Monsignor Frank Eggleton said bad timing made Read more
St Patrick’s College in Kilbirnie has been hit with graffiti, just days after its students were accused of causing tagging damage at Wellington College. The culprits who tagged obscenities across Wellington College, including a metre-high phallus on a $1.4m artificial pitch, are still yet to be caught. However, in an apparent act of retaliation, property at St Read more
Obscene graffiti has been daubed across Wellington College buildings and its artificial sports turf, apparently by rival students from St Patrick’s College. Staff and students Wellington College found the graffiti on Monday morning. It included one-metre-high male genitalia and “F… you” scrawled on the new $1.4 million turf, which was partly funded by Wellington ratepayers. Read more
US Cables reveal the violence of the Fijian regime. The military is unsparing in its use of violence and intimidation – but there are signs of dissenting voices, writes Philip Dorling.
Some quiet acts of defiance against Fiji’s military regime occurred this week. A large number of spray-painted anti-government slogans appeared overnight on walls around the capital, Suva.
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