Capitalism Is Failing Tairāwhiti Youth
One in three young people in Gisborne are distressed, and no amount of resilience talk can hide the deeper failure: poverty, alienation and capitalism.
Neoliberalism
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The NZ neoliberal experiment is melting down as enormity of energy crisis and climate dawns
The economy built on housing speculation, privatisation and cheap growth is colliding with climate chaos, energy shocks and public exhaustion.
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NZ Fuel Supply Was Outsourced To The Free Market
New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.
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Neoliberal free market capitalism + lazy mass immigration policies = a collapse in NZ’s social cohesion
New Zealand isn’t drifting apart by chance. Decades of economic policy and population pressure are tearing at the social fabric.
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The single problem with NZ is, we haven’t reformed away from the failed 1980’s neoliberal free market capitalism experiment
New Zealand’s 40-year neoliberal experiment has hollowed out the State, inflated housing bubbles and left us dangerously exposed to climate and economic collapse.
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The Truth about NZs little battler myth and why free market dynamics don’t work here
New Zealand isn’t a tiny battler — it’s a vast, sparsely populated nation built on State infrastructure, not free market fantasy.
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Why the NZ Left still fears talking honestly about tax
New Zealand’s tax system overwhelmingly protects wealth while workers carry the burden. Yet the political Left still seems terrified of making the moral and economic case for serious tax reform. That vacuum is becoming impossible to ignore.
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The new language of disaster that the Government are quietly slipping into their new climate change narrative
When Ministers praise “resilience”, are they applauding communities — or quietly preparing us to expect less help when climate disasters hit?
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Ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility in healthcare systems
Ian Powell examines how conviction politics has reshaped New Zealand’s health system — and why responsibility must come first.
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Little sympathy for MSD Security or MSD staff
MSD plans security guard cuts at Work and Income offices. A look at the Ashburton murders, welfare hostility, and the political anger behind it.
