Monday, 10 May 2021, 10:54 am
All around the world, governments, economists, and
even neoliberal bastions like the World Bank are urging a
change in the direction of economic policy away from the
mistakes of a decade ago – all except here in New Zealand,
where the government appears determined to repeat them.
Branko Marcetic examines the
Government’s pay freeze for public sector
workers.
Observing events in the rest of the
world, the state of things in Aotearoa can sometimes feel
like they’re happening in an alternate universe. And
that’s not just because for more than a year, New
Zealand’s been living almost as if the pandemic never