[...] In this post-pandemic New Zealand, we face an economic threat no commentator could have predicted. The combined circumstances are perfectly placed, not to become the Orwellian fiction of 1984 but repeat the Muldoonian mistakes of 1983.

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Stephen Berry is a former Act candidate and Auckland Mayoral candidate. The libertarian political commentator retired as a politician in July 2020 and now hosts the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show on Youtube.