The tagline runs: "The story of unemployment in New Zealand" and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it takes as its starting point the consensus from The Depression onwards that Godzone economic policy should focus on achieving full employment, and explores how this was radically shifted by the 1984 Labour government. Director Alister Barry's perspective is clear, as he trains a humanist lens on ‘Rogernomics' to argue for the policy's negative effects on society, "as a new poverty-stricken underclass developed".
The surprising success of our feature documentary, Someone Else's Country, at the 1996 New Zealand International Film Festival and the flurry of mail-order vhs sales that followed opened the possibility of a wide New Zealand audience ...
Available to purchase from the Filmshop or the Alister Barry website.
great depression, unemployment, 1984 labour government, david lange, poverty, underclass, social change
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2010
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