2. The Nation Is at Risk

Victory for Lange in 1984 comes with a cluster of crises - economic and constitutional. In a pair of spellbinding TV interviews, the bellicose outgoing PM Rob Muldoon refuses to devalue and Lange responds, enraged. The deputy PM, Jim McLay, summons senior ministers, who plot a high-wire response. Out of the maelstrom, Roger Douglas launches a revolution, to transform New Zealand’s creaking economy from the developed world’s most regulated to its most market embracing.
Including new and exclusive interviews with Jim McLay, Richard Harman, Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble, Stephen Mills, Hekia Parata and Margaret Wilson.
Click here (thespinoff.co....) for full details of archive material used in this series
Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

[@bravowhiskey3239]

Really enjoying the series - thank you so much!

[@ooo-vc4xl]

Roger Douglas's heart has always been in the right place. He always wanted to help NZ Inc and the poor. However it was the start of unleashing neolierablism which has destroyed NZ.

[@darylmckay]

That's an incredibly kind interpretation of man who along with Prebble, Caygill and cronies, introduced policies that destroyed lives, created an underclass of generational poverty and inequality that we still struggle with today, founded ACT to protect the rich, betrayed the socialist beliefs of his father and Labour, and has continued to unrepentently and loudly justify the carnage.

[@esmaywharewera7529]

Your first sentence is ridiculous

[@nrtharris9018]

Very good again.

[@TonyWhite-x3c]

This fellow collapsed the New Zealand industrial economy. As a country we have not recovered to this day. The New Zealand standard of living and low wage growth can go back to Douglas and his open economy experiment.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Hegel's Dialectical Methodology needs to be understood. Lange understood Post-Kantian ideology and its influence on how people generated knowledge about all things better than most. Muldoon sold NZ to the Lima Sustainable Development Agreement in 1975 after the UK abandoned NZ for the EEC in 1973.