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Max Rashbrooke: NZ s wealth gap and why it s so dangerous
29 Jan, 2021 05:00 PM
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Max and his father Geoff near the family home in Eastbourne where he grew up - and where his parents still live today. Photo / Marty Melville
By: Joanna Wane
Max Rashbrooke talks to Joanna Wane about his groundbreaking father-and-son research into New Zealand s damaging wealth divide.
You could say it all began around the dinner table. Politics, socialism, inequality, the environment … no topic of conversation was out of bounds in the Rashbrooke household, where the old black and white TV was always switched off at meal times.
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Pretty pathetic
Priti Patel just loves to send planeloads of impoverished people off to Jamaica. They’re all murderers and rapists of course, though there may be the odd car parking offender sent in error. Anyone who objects is either a “lefty lawyer” or a “do-gooding celebrity”. Many of the passengers have been in the UK for decades, have no home to go to in Jamaica and face living, or dying, on the streets.
Why is she so keen? On the face of it, she comes across as an extremely stupid person in a cabinet full of the sort. Perhaps she’s in a competition with Matt Hancock, Dominic Raab, Gavin Williamson, Michael Gove … (you get the picture) for the Chris Grayling award for 2020. It’s clearly a tough field and there isn’t much time left.