Do we want to go back to what was “normal” – or do we want to take this unexpected downtime to rethink our economy so we emerge from this terrible moment determined to create a fairer New Zealand for our children and grandchildren?
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Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
determined to create a fairer New Zealand for our children and grandchildren?
I don’t think that ‘fairer’ is a word with any effect in NZ any more. What would be a word with enough point to pierce the self-indulgent blanket we wrap around ourselves in NZ?
‘To create a …………… ? New Zealand’ for all, as well as our own children and family.
I think a return to the word ‘egalitarian’ and adding equitable, rather than the use of equality, would be right – so a return to an ‘egalitarian and equitable NZ for our young people to hold and carry forward.
Just wanting a better NZ for our children and grand-children emphasises the idea of individualism in politics which detracts from the idea of being all together, of being part of a fabulous whole, and wishing the country as a whole to be happy and healthy and hard-working at something they enjoy and that others want, and that for a reasonable wage and price.
Do we want to go back to what was “normal” – NO NO NO, NO MORE PEOPLE SLEEPING IN CARS AND ECKING OUT A LIVING, NO MORE CHILDREN IN POVERTY.
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do we want to take this unexpected downtime to rethink our economy so we emerge from this terrible moment determined to create a fairer New Zealand for our children and grandchildreN
YES YES YES we can do this, the people have to demand it, not more politicians saying it can’t be done, we need to change things NOW.
Astonishing how we can home the homeless in these times but not all the time… what is that about, our fear that ‘they’ might give us something.
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