In the wake of Treasury’s Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, Associate Professor Susan St John gives her assessement of the government’s unnecessarily hard neoliberal economic austerity measures and how the Luxon/Willis administration has not learned the lessons of the 1990’s and the misery caused by the austerity measures of then National Finance Minister Ruth Richardson.

We discuss a wide range of consequences, including the way rising unemployment and increasing levels of poverty are causing our children to suffer from third world diseases, and the government’s complete lack of empathy in reducing support for foodbanks at the very time when people need it most.

So what can we do to have a fairer society?

Susan St John’s down- to -earth analysis is always enlightening.

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