What's Happening to New Zealand?

The lead article this week concerns a topic which we feel is probably the most important issue facing New Zealanders at the present time. This is the economic and political future of New Zealand in the short and long term.

We intend to feature it, in some way, every week. Salient has written to various parties and individuals, most of them well known, to seek their opinions on the topic. We would like students to consider their arguments and contribute something themselves.

Our intentions? It must be to create a new awareness of the direction that New Zealand is heading, and to advocate action if this direction is found to be leading us over the cliff.

We do not envisage that this feature should be an advice column for Muldoon. Rather it will concentrate on the political dimensions of New Zealand's economic problem.

We urge you all to read it each week and to concern yourselves with a situation which may soon slip beyond our control.