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 Synopsis

Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is counterpointed by the social effects (redundant workers, Post Office closures). Made by Alister Barry in 1996 when the effects were raw, the film draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key “witnesses to history”.

 Credits

 Alister Barry
 Tony Sutorius
 Shane Loader
 David Donaldson
 
 

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 Collections

Included in the Labour Day Collection - October 2009

 

 Background

A Director's perspective by Alister Barry | 19.11.2009

It is a quarter of a century since the New Right revolution began in New Zealand. New right ideology has become known as neoliberalism – a new version of an old idea of economic liberalism that says that society is best organised by free ...

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 Where to buy

Available to purchase from the Filmshop or Alister Barry's Website.

 
 

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