New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has described the Pike River Mine incident, in which 29 men were killed, as a national tragedy.

If all of the world’s adults that wanted to migrate actually left and moved where they wanted to go New Zealand’s population would boom, particularly with young people, according to a recent series of polls by US firm Gallup.

New Zealand has once again kept its number one ranking in the Transparency International corruptions perceptions index.

Reporters Without Borders has ranked New Zealand seventh in the world in terms of media freedom.