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OPINION: There isn’t much left of Jim Bolger’s legacy. His reforms in introducing market discipline in health and education didn’t survive Helen Clark’s administration, and although he did oversee the sale of some State Owned Enterprises this was timid compared to what Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble had accomplished. Bolger left us with MMP, so thanks for that, Jim. He also began the current round of Treaty of Waitangi settlements, although some commentators feel that Sir Doug Graham deserves the credit for this development. I suspect Sir Doug might be one of those commentators. ROSA WOODS/STUFF ....
COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS Helen Kelly pics. In 2010 the National government announced plans to roll back worker s rights. Helen Kelly led a Fairness at Work protest in October. To some she was a hero. To others she was “a bloody pain in the neck”. Kirsty Johnston reports on a new biography of Helen Kelly, an ordinary girl who refused to be quiet. It was early 1981 when 50,000 people marched down Auckland’s Queen St, an angry uprising against the union movement that seemed to take even its participants by surprise. Led by a young woman called Tania Harris, the protesters united under the “Kiwis Care” banner, railing against “Pommie stirrers” and “commos” they believed responsible for recent strikes. “We must pull together, not apart,” Harris, a 22-year-old sales representative, told the gathered crowd. ....
STUFF The Monitor looks at how individual parts of New Zealand s economy have rebounded since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. It was a sign of the times. “Workers at R. W. Saunders, Ltd, in St Asaph Street who are due to be made redundant today will continue picketing the site until a redundancy deal is made,” The Press reported on May 27, 1988. John Selkirk/Stuff Roger Douglas, left, and David Lange won a second term for Labour in 1987, but the social cost of economic reform was high. ....