[PEN-L:5089] Re: Brits> NZ too

[Bruce Cronin <b.cronin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, 12 May 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote:
>
> > Ellen Dannin and others who haven't seen it
> > should take a look at the transcript of
> > the CBC program "Ideas" on New Zealand which
> > is available in the pen-l archives.  . . . .
>
> In my view (jaded of course) we should pay attention to what's happened /
> ing there.  There appear to be major efforts to sell these "reforms" with
> little effort to publicise the range of impacts.

A fascinating side of the neo-'liberal' crusade for 'freedom' in the
NZ economy has been their systematic campaign to stamp out criticism of
their programme. Alternative centres of policy advice and critique in
govt and the universities have had their funds cut. Academics who
stand up and try to say the emperor has no clothes on are threatened
by their seniors and ridiculed by the press.

A very good summary of the social impact of the neo-liberal programme
was distributed at the Copenhagen UN Summit on Social Policy in
February.

It is by Mike O'Brien (Massey University) and Jane Kelsey (Auckland
University) and is called Setting_the_Record_Straight.