Hi @jojo522 , welcome back to Connect, and thank you for asking.
Hidden reviews are a well know issue in google Maps.
To respond to your first question you can read:
- An update on how we moderate Google Maps reviews. In there you will also find a form to appeal.
- Your review has not been published. Do you know why?. The post will give you an explanation about the size of the issue and the reason why all the websites where the review are hosted have to take an action against fake reviews
Of course you can appeal.
Regarding your second question, the answer is no, you are free to publish reviews of every place you visited, it doesn’t matter where the place is located.
However from your profile I can see that 1290 reviews are not published, so I suppose that you have hidden reviews also in other places, non only in NZ