Yep—that’s a big pink dildo hitting the face of New Zealand’s Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce at a press conference today. The dildo tosser, identified by the Huffington Post as Josie Butler, was mad about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Fair warning: this is possibly the worst video in the world for those with a fear of heights who also have to cross a bridge at any time in the future.

In 2016, New Zealanders will get to vote on a new flag, one that Prime Minister John Key hopes will “better reflect our status as a modern, independent nation.” In an effort to appear egalitarian, Key has opened the artistic direction of the new flag up to the people, and the people, wow, they have not disappointed.

A New Zealand man was convicted Wednesday of forcibly removing teeth from four women’s mouths while he was having sex with them. Philip Lyle Hansen isn’t a licensed dentist, and the only thing qualifying to yank out his victims’ teeth is that he likes “fat, gummy women” and felt like he was helping them save money on dental bills.

Arrested in November for allegedly plotting the murder of a former employee, AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pled guilty in a New Zealand court today to one count of threatening to kill and two drug possession charges, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Two employees of Christchurch, New Zealand insurance company Marsh, Ltd., engaged in an affair and in the throes of passion, started having sex in their office last Friday night. They apparently thought the building's tinted windows prevented others from seeing inside their well-lit sexscape. They were wrong.

Inspired by Hollaback's now-famous " 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman" video, the New Zealand Herald hit the mean streets of Auckland with model Nicola Simpson to expose the street harassment problem in their own country. There wasn't much to expose.

Police in New Zealand said a hostel owner drugged and assaulted dozens of backpackers—some of whom may have no idea it ever happened.

A newspaper in New Zealand had to issue an apology this week after running a photo of deceased Jackass star Ryan Dunn instead of Israeli soldier Guy Boyland, who was killed in Gaza this month.

The heads of the New Zealand and Australian Defense Staffs salute after laying wreaths beside the Australian War Memorial during a dawn service to mark Anzac Day in London on Friday. Anzac Day honors the men of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps who died in the World War I battle for Gallipoli, Turkey. Image via Matt Dunham/AP.

This month, powerful baby Prince George performs his first official royal duty—an inspection of British penal colonies and their outlying areas—as he and his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, spend three weeks traveling across Australia and New Zealand. During this time, Gawker.com will publish a selection of entries from his minder Kate Middleton's travel journals.

Britain's Prince William, with Maori Elder Lewis Moeau, picks up a challenge made by a Maori warrior at the official welcome ceremony for William and his wife Kate in Wellington, New Zealand, on Monday. Image via SNPA, Ross Setford/AP.

On Saturday, a man successfully fought off a large shark, stabbing it with his knife, but not before he suffered a deep bite to his leg. Then he did what anyone would do: He swam to shore, stitched himself up, and had a beer at bar before finally going to the hospital.

This video of a young woman participating in the "electric fence challenge" — hey, does anyone remember not injuring yourself for a few minutes of Internet fame? — is officially titled "girl's bum on electric fence challange [sic] goes wrong."

What's the ultimate prank? That's right: Replacing all the tap water in a friend's house with cold, refreshing beer pumped straight from a bunch of tapped kegs hidden beneath the floorboards.

Albert Buitenhuis, the South African chef who was getting kicked out of New Zealand for being too fat, has been given a 23-month reprieve. Buitenhuis will not be allowed access to any publicly-funded healthcare, however.

New Zealand has rejected the work visa of a chef who has been living there since 2007, all because he is simply too fat for the small island nation.

A 19-year-old from the Northland region of New Zealand who has been on house arrest for past 10 months says he grown "sick of playing Xbox" and prefers to be in prison.

Over the past 12 years, New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs has banned nearly 80 names deemed unacceptable to the government.

Ronald Clark's lawyer called his client's three-month jail sentence for possession of cartoon pornography a case of "law gone mad."