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2y ago
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Contributed to The Analyst New Zealand by Dara McNaught© 2020
When I was working for a small non-profit organisation a while back the regular e-newsletters we provided were a crucial service.
Lacking a teenager with requisite knowledge in the family, I took my grey hairs along to a short course at our local Adult Education Centre to learn how to use digital photography and other skills so we could enhance the publication.
In her letter (23.9.20) Jo Bowler suggests that political parties budget for a return to these ni ..read more
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2y ago
Poverty amongst senior citizens in New Zealand
It seems that a goodly number of Superannuitants are cashing in their KiwiSaver and retirement savings and cruising off into the wide blue yonder – a well earned reward for hard work. This would be the ideal, but we are far from it. Poverty amongst senior citizens in New Zealand is in-fact a reality. The retired and poor of New Zealand.
Others are not so lucky. Poverty in retirement with no KiwiSaver or safety net, is becoming a reality. A concerned young Emergency Department doctor noted this year in the Herald that one third of the over-65 year ..read more
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2y ago
Many have tried, and failed, as will I in all likelihood, to explain what this elusive concept of happiness really is? But I won’t fail to try, so here goes. Happiness is like a rainbow, the closer you try and get to it, the further away it tries to run from you. Very few succeed, in the figurative sense of the word, to obtain their pot of gold at the end of this elusive rainbow called happiness.
What does it mean to be truly happy? Really, what does it mean, I ask? Is happiness having all the money in the world? Without any of the worries us plebs have to put up and deal with on a day to day ..read more
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2y ago
Pursuing happiness in the developed world and developing nations
The pursuit of happiness: This article aims to discuss what pursuing happiness in the developed world and developing nations means. The Analyst also aims to explore, the difficulty in pursuing happiness in the first world compared to the developing countries.
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Many have tried, and failed, as will I in all likelihood, to explain what this elusive concept of happiness really is? But I won’t fail to try, so here goes. Happiness is like a rainbow, the closer you try and get to it, the further away it tries to run from you ..read more
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2y ago
Why do we pay taxes? The answer to this question is rather universal from nation to nation. In return for a stable operating environment as provided by the government of the day, one which allows society to thrive and prosper, we as people need to contribute money into a shared pot to ensure that we have the security and services as provided and administered by the government. Hence the advent of Income Tax and Progressive taxation.
Progressive taxes are those that increase when the taxable income increases, in other words the high earners bear a higher burden of the tax than those that ..read more
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2y ago
In the South Auckland suburb of Otara, state houses are 98 percent full, with people opting to live 17 to a home or paying through the nose to live in an unheated garage. John Campbell investigates.
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2y ago
So what is poverty really? A quick definition of poverty states, “Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.” However poverty really goes beyond that. The follow on effects of “a lack of certain amounts of material possessions or money” results in diminished participation or marginalisation from society as a whole. This leads to the loss of dignity for the individuals concerned, which makes the whole cycle a downward spiral, something which is extremely hard to break. When this cycle is perpetuated from one gener ..read more