"Four decades and ten PMs later!" - Ian Shirley

Late Emeritus Professor Ian Shirley, AUT 
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This article was published on January 12 this year. Professor Shirley died on the 20th. The article, and those listed at the end, are important contributions to NZ public policy. -- ACW


It has taken over four decades and ten Prime Ministers to see a New Zealand government with both the foresight and courage to take the first steps in provoking a fundamental shift in this country’s social policy arrangements. It began with the ‘families package ‘toward the end of 2017 which replaced tax cuts for the wealthy and this has been followed by focusing on children as the country’s most vulnerable population – not just ‘children in trouble or troublesome children’, but all children who represent this country’s future as well as its greatest asset.