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Outgoing Retirement Commissioner Diane Maxwell has been outspoken about the need to increase the pension age from 65.
"You used to get super for five years, then 10 and now 20 - soon it'll be 30. I'm not sure how we can fund people getting super for 30 years or more."
New … View moreOutgoing Retirement Commissioner Diane Maxwell has been outspoken about the need to increase the pension age from 65.
"You used to get super for five years, then 10 and now 20 - soon it'll be 30. I'm not sure how we can fund people getting super for 30 years or more."
New Zealand has one of the simplest pension schemes in the world - all you have to do is be old enough and have lived in the country long enough and you can get it.
But that also makes it expensive - about $14.5 billion this year. Jobseeker benefits, by comparison, cost just $1.7b and sole parent support $1.08b.
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Do you have your grandad’s Poll Tax Certificate, your granny’s cheung saam, old war bonds or your Association’s minutes? Do you use your phone or digital camera to take photos? How do we keep them all safe for future generations?
The Alexander Turnbull Library’s Vicki-Anne Heikell, Field … View moreDo you have your grandad’s Poll Tax Certificate, your granny’s cheung saam, old war bonds or your Association’s minutes? Do you use your phone or digital camera to take photos? How do we keep them all safe for future generations?
The Alexander Turnbull Library’s Vicki-Anne Heikell, Field Conservator, and Flora Feltham, Digital Archivist, will lead this workshop on caring for your valued objects – digital or otherwise.
Date/s 13 July 2019
Time 1-3pm
Cost $10 towards costs. Correct change appreciated
Venue Wellington Chinese Sports and Cultural Centre, Mt Albert Road, Berhampore.
Email ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz to confirm a spot
Do you have your grandad’s Poll Tax Certificate, your granny’s cheung saam, old war bonds or your Association’s minutes? Do you use your phone or digital camera to take photos? How do we keep them all safe for future generations?
Family books, photographs and papers connect us to our ancestors, their lives, and thoughts. They are an invaluable resource for future generations. Vicki-Anne Heikell, Alexander Turnbull Library’s Field Conservator will present a seminar to help you care for your own collections, and those of your community organisations. Participants are encouraged to bring a family item to the workshop. There will be opportunities for one-on-one conservation advice on your treasures and hands-on practical activities.
The second session will talk about managing your digital files. During this session we will talk about why we need to care for digital files, what good file management looks like, the care and handling of physical storage media like USB sticks and CDs, as well as good practice in file naming, file organisation, back-ups, and using the cloud.
Have you been taking meeting notes and saving them to your computer for years? Do you share interesting snippets on Facebook or email your friends and family? If the answer is yes, then welcome to the wonderful world of personal digital archiving. This is a session for you
Speakers:
• Vicki-Anne Heikell (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) is Field Conservator at the Alexander Turnbull Library Outreach Services Team. She is a trained paper conservator and works with communities, to advance the preservation of their documentary heritage collections.
• Flora Feltham is a Digital Archivist at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. She supports the acquisition, ingest, management, and preservation of born-digital heritage collections.
Image: Archivists and conservator at a previous workshop
Date: Friday, 21 June, 2019
Time: 12:10pm to 1:00pm
Cost: Free. You don't need to book.
Location: Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon
Author Mike Grimshaw discusses his book
Mike Grimshaw discusses his new book, 'Bishops, … View moreDate: Friday, 21 June, 2019
Time: 12:10pm to 1:00pm
Cost: Free. You don't need to book.
Location: Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon
Author Mike Grimshaw discusses his book
Mike Grimshaw discusses his new book, 'Bishops, Boozers, Brethren & Burkas', published in June 2019 as part of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive’s monograph series. Grimshaw will use cartoons from 1860s to the present day to discuss the way religion in New Zealand has been represented by our cartoonists.
History via cartoons
There is no general history of religion in New Zealand, so this book is a unique contribution, providing not only a cartoon history of religion in this country but also a history via cartoons.
Changing views on religion
From the 1860s, settlers viewed issues of religion and politics as problematic, but in the main, religion remained part of the fabric of society. However, religion was more of a concern for our cartoonists as New Zealand became an increasingly secular nation from the 1970s onwards. This not only reflects the generation of cartoonists whose work was published from the 1970s but also a shift in New Zealand society more generally.
Overall, when religion was less of a contested identity and influence, cartoonists tended to leave religion — and the church alone. However, as the country became, very quickly, a secular society from the 1970s onwards, religion was a target of cartoonists. Religion and the religious were increasingly presented as representing religious and social attitudes and beliefs regarded as out of step with a modern society.
About the speaker
Mike Grimshaw (PhD Otago) is Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A founding series editor for Radical Theologies and Philosophies (Palgrave Macmillan) and founding co-editor of Continental Thought & Theory (), he toils at the intersections of radical theology, continental thought and cultural and social theory.
Mike also has a focus on New Zealand religious and intellectual history; recently publishing a book of interviews with the New Zealand radical religious thinker Sir Lloyd Geering 'Geering Interviews'(Polebridge, USA, 2018), and edited the letters of the noted New Zealand philosopher Arthur Prior "Arthur Prior, ‘a young progressive'" (Canterbury University Press, 2018).
Image: Cover of 'Bishops, Boozers, Brethren & Burkas' by Mike Grimshaw (New Zealalnd Cartoon Archive, 2019)
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Porirua community members will be calling for stronger action on pokies as the City Council wraps up consultation on its proposed Class 4 gambling policy next week.
The verbal hearings are taking place at Te Rauparaha Arena on Wednesday 12 June and community members will be voicing… View moreMEDIA RELEASE
Porirua community members will be calling for stronger action on pokies as the City Council wraps up consultation on its proposed Class 4 gambling policy next week.
The verbal hearings are taking place at Te Rauparaha Arena on Wednesday 12 June and community members will be voicing their concerns about pokies and the harm they cause to the community.
Porirua-based filmmaker, Tony Sutorius, who will be speaking at the hearing, said pokie machines are clearly and simply a negative for Porirua and he doesn’t believe there is a genuine community demand for them.
“We were better off before they existed here, and we should remove them completely, right now,” he said.
“A young woman approached my son and I in Mana two weeks ago, begging for two dollars so she could win more on the Sandbar's pokies.”
“Pokies steal from our poor, and the ethical fig leaf they create for themselves by giving a thin slice back to some local good causes is corrupting our community's will to simply say no,” he said.
Tony Sutorius said pokies are nowhere close to worth the cost in tangible harm caused to our vulnerable neighbours.
“For every dollar being taken away from our most vulnerable neighbours, only seven cents comes back. It’s absolutely, obviously not worth the tremendous harm it’s causing.”
In 2018, nearly $13 million was lost on the 165 pokies in Porirua City’s 12 venues. Ten of those venues are situated in the most deprived areas of the City.
While harmful gambling can affect anyone, research indicates that both Māori and Pasifika peoples are considered high risk for gambling harm.
Naomi Solomon, spokesperson for Ngāti Toa, said Porirua has a high Māori population and they are disproportionately impacted by pokies.
“We know how much harm pokies cause in our communities and we want the Council to take a stronger stand on these addictive machines. The policy the Council is proposing just doesn’t go far enough to protect the vulnerable and we are continuing to see money being lost on pokies by people who can’t afford to be losing it,” she said.
Pesio Ah-Honi, National Director Pacific Services at Mapu Maia, said with the high number of Pasifika living in Porirua, pokies would have a significant impact on the community.
“Over 26 percent of the population of Porirua are Pasifika,” she said.
“The Council need to take into account the impact of its policy on vulnerable communities when considering the gambling policy for the City. What Porirua needs is a strong sinking lid policy for pokies with no relocations or club mergers permitted,” Pesio Ah-Honi said.
“What the Council is proposing is weak, and the amount of funding that comes back to the community in no way makes up for the harm that these machines cause.”
Verbal hearings on the Porirua City Council’s gambling policy are taking place on Wednesday 12 June at Te Rauparaha Arena, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua, starting at 8.30am.
For further information, please contact:
Tony Sutorius
Ph 027 286 7325
Naomi Solomon
Resource Management & Communications Manager
Ngāti Toa
Ph 0273677418
Naomi@ngatitoa.iwi.nz
Pesio Ah-Honi
National Director Pacific Services
Mapu Maia
Ph (04) 9798326
Andree Froude
Director Communications
Problem Gambling Foundation of NZ (now trading as PGF Group)
Ph (09) 3690723
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