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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 21. September 3 1979

Strain on the Welfare State

Strain on the Welfare State

The Welfare State had catered for too many plural interests during the boom period of capital. Now that it is in crisis, the bourgeois state has to be restructured in its favour. The question of democracy in New Zealand therefore will not be resolved by the mere creation of Parliamentary Committees with oversight powers over the executive branches or the amendment of standing orders, so long as power of monopoly capital remains unbridled.

However, for those students of Constitutional law who missed most of Palmer's lectures this year, obtaining a copy of his book is essential for [unclear: regurgittion] of his views in the finals.