Four-part series Revolution examined radical changes in New Zealand society in the 1980s and 1990s. This final episode sums up, after examining “the second wave” of neoliberal reform when National took power in 1990 shortly after Telecom was sold to American interests. Incoming finance minister Ruth “mother of all budgets” Richardson oversaw a reduction of welfare payments, a shake-up of the health system, and a curbing of union powers. Richardson: "in a human sense I understood that [community outrage], but that wasn’t going to deflect me".
It is now 13 years since Revolution was made for Television New Zealand and there has been no equivalent documentary of recent political history on our screens since as far as I can ascertain. The ...
[From the introduction to the book accompanying the TV series, published by Hodder Moa Beckett, 1996]
Revolution is a journalist's assembly of observations about the transformation of New ...
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