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Covid, Riots, Ukraine: Confronting a Changed World with Transformative Ideals

The Covid response, the anti-vax riot at Parliament and the invasion of Ukraine are all further nails in the coffin of the post-1990 “consensus”, which held that small government, “free” markets, and hyper-globalisation were the culmination of human development and would resolve the world’s major social and economic problems. Instead, we face multiple crises – climate change, economic inequality and right-wing extremism, among others – that our current politics struggles to address. How, in Aotearoa New Zealand, can we navigate this new, uncertain world? In this lecture, author and commentator Max Rashbrooke explores the ideas and policies that could transform well-being and opportunity in the twenty-first century. Register for this Zoom talk hosted by the Fabian Society at www.fabians.org.nz.

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Social insurance: smart idea or poor process?

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Wealth and Degradation: The Role of Inequality in the Climate Crisis