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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 19. August 6 1979

[Introduction]

Photo of Robert Muldoon

What happened recently at the three [unclear: s] of National Party Conference was [unclear: lly] all inevitable. There has been a [unclear: ba-] conflict between the thinking within National Party and the actions of the [unclear: tional] Government. On an "Eyewitness" [unclear: gramme] on SPTV on 29 August, Julian [unclear: it], Dominion Councillor of the Party, [unclear: pressed] the view that National had [unclear: al-ys] stood for "private enterprise" and [unclear: itiative]", but over the past three years [unclear: s] philosophy has not always been [unclear: ref-ted] in the Government's actions.

Earlier in the same programme, interviews [unclear: re] carried out in some of the homes of the [unclear: tional] Party members who brought a remit the conference which intended to "[unclear: reaf-]n" the belief in private enterprise. The [unclear: nplaint] registered in their Party's [unclear: Govern-nt] was, essentially, that the level of [unclear: pu—c] expenditure is "choking private [unclear: enter-se]" and "inhibiting New Zealand's ability function economically". They complained that we "depend entirely on the welfare state" and that we have lost our "pioneering spirit" and the ability to do things for ourselves.

Solutions to this "economic crisis" were seen to be found in less "regulation and control" of the economy and the cryptic "allocating resources based on market forces." The Government should, so these people maintained, spend less on social welfare, intervene less in all fields and cut back the size of "the bureaucracy". And the remit with all its philosophical connotations, was passed overwhelmingly.