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Kris's avatar

New Zealand always seemed like the control group for what happens when neoliberalism isn’t just trialled, but fully embraced and hand-stitched into every institution. What’s astonishing isn’t the economic stagnation, it’s the political amnesia. How many times do you have to be mugged by policy before you stop inviting the same thieves back in? The choice between exit and voice is a bleak one when even the so-called alternatives just offer softer branding on the same austerity logic.

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Alaric's avatar

I always thought the relative difference in wealth could be explained by Australia’s lucky mineral abundance.

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