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Salient. Victoria University students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 7. April 12 [1976]

Right Wing Government

Right Wing Government

The bulk of the speech can be seen as a reworking from an extreme right-wing viewpoint of the dangers of class struggle, and his fears of the decline in the free world's' economic and military power. In other words, the New Zealand way of life (or how he pictures it) is faced with subversion from both within and without.

Despite the complaints of more backward businessmen, the National Party has been extremely quick to recognise that state intervention in the handling of the economy has to be organised on a day-to-day rather than through once-yearly budgetary announcements.

Mr R. Trotter (Chairman of the Challenge Corporation) and his mates call for the integration of state and private enterprise. Mr Muldoon's conception of this marriage is to hire personal advisers from the business community, corporation boards, and National Party hierarchy. These people are neither elected, nor responsible to existing Government departments.

The Prime Minister's department is then an extension of the old-boy network, an open recognition of the fact that New Zealand is governed by a small self-perpetuating elite. The marriage between private enterprise and the State is only the recognition of a de-facto menage a trois which has long existed between overseas finance, non-competitive New Zealand business, and a docile Government bureaucracy.