Where else are ex-colonialist whites content to refer to themselves as pakeha , the word the Maoris use? In any case, it may be Asians — 9. It must look very green, warm and attractive to Japanese and Chinese tourists. Empty, too. But NZ's similarities with our own north Atlantic archipelago are also striking.
The day I arrived, the New Zealand Herald's spread of stories included a plea for Pharmac , the Kiwi equivalent of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence , to sanction use of a costly new miracle drug and a boast by the conservative prime minister, John Key, that his move to weaken trade union bargaining rights had clinched the deal to film The Hobbit locally along with a controversial cash subsidy.
The edition also noted rising concern over luxury house prices and a simmering culture war over gay marriage. Sounds familiar? David Cameron's EU referendum pledge also got a decent show — for old times' sake.
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New Zealand is still far more British — and less American — than Australia, but the old ties have steadily weakened since the UK joined the embryonic EU in and forced NZ to look to wider agricultural markets in Asia and to economic diversification. It has tackled the challenge with serious ups and downs but overall success. New Zealand is a much more outward-looking and sophisticated place than it was. What else?
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There was a contaminated milk scare which alarmed New Zealand's customers in China which has had far worse milk scares of its own and a loudmouth Ukip-style MP called Richard Prosser also gained news coverage overseas — as we say down under — for suggesting that young Muslim males from "Wogistan" should be barred from using respectable airlines.
The ensuing uproar was much as it would be in Britain. In my experience you never see poverty in New Zealand as you might in poorer neighbourhoods in the US or Europe. Mainly Maori towns have a subdued quality says me and health and education, income and crime stats all point to lower achievement. But it's not Detroit or even Tower Hamlets.
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This remains an unflashy society, basically decent, social democratic in tone, one which gave women the right to vote in — the first country to do so in modern times — and pioneered many social reforms. It also reversed some of them in the 80s. International studies today confirm that even self-consciously egalitarian societies such as New Zealand and France where women got the vote in are not immune to global trends towards social and economic inequality.
Swimming on one of NZ's wide sandy beaches — you can often get one to yourself — the visitor can't help but notice how grand some of the second homes are now becoming. He lived in Japan for 8 years and met a Kiwi girl. They got married and moved to Christchurch. Hijinks ensue. Read on for more. Since being here we have extended our family - in May Denver joined us, the first SPCA 'lucky dip', currently weighing in at 46kgs! Also we have Chips the Goldfish who has been with us for 4 years now. We have an amazing life here in New Zealand, we have laughed, and cried and laughed some more.
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Hence a blog that captures moments when we all feel like exclaiming: O frabjous day! We set up this blog to describe the years we will be spending in New Zealand. Check back for pics and thoughts from the antipodes from Br, Am, and Pa. I moved out of home for the first time when I was 27 in My first move ever was all the way across the world to be with my Aussie pilot boyfriend.
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If that doesn't sound healthy to you, then why is this a key tenet of the beliefs of our ruling elite bankers, politicans, and apparatchiks? Yes it is. It's also contradictory. For ex, ASB likes to teach the virtues of saving to kids. On the flip side, they require and some to degree encourage people to borrow mountains of mortgage debt while assuming all the risk. So ASB should be teaching kids and adults about risk as a path to financial literacy.
Furthermore, we arguably learn about money and finance through failure than specious examples about what the financial establishment dishes out with their own assumptions about future returns. It is also an individual's choice on how to manage their personal income I. Leave the remainder in your transaction bank account for all your living costs. I'm interested to know how this works on the minimum wage living in auckland.
I suspect not very well. Young people who are starting out in the work force earning the minimum wage, can choose to upskill themselves, or they can choose to not upskill themselves. It is entirely their choice. It is more of a challenge, the nearer the person is to retirement.
People can choose to find a way out of their circumstances or choose to carry on the same way in their circumstances. It is their choice. People are free to make their choice, but people are not free from the consequences of their choice. It assumes that the person is wanting to get themselves out of poverty and not want government handouts such as unemployment benefit, DPB, etc. There is a proportion of the population who want the handouts.
But for most of those individuals who want to help themselves out there is a way. Lets look how people can ruin their lives, and avoid doing those things. Here is a starter book. Sorry CN, but capitalism will always be a pyramid with a few wealthy and the majority poor. A few people through hard work will climb the materialistic ladder up the pyramid, and growth in real gdp per capita will lift everyone, but it will always be a pyramid. Aligned with this is that those unemployed are unemployed through no fault of their own at the macro level. That is not to say that they cant contribute in meaningful ways to society.