Hon Sir ROGER DOUGLAS to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: Why, despite spending $160 million on the Youth Opportunities package, has the unemployment rate for 15 to 19 year olds increased since she became Minister?
Telecommunications issues
Select Committee Minority Report – Telecommunications (TSO Broadband and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
The 2025 Taskforce report made a raft of recommendations to improve our economy and hopefully catch Australia by 2025. While I do not agree with all of its recommendations, the goal of catching Australia by 2025 is a worthy one.
Click the icon to view a summary of how I think New Zealand could achieve this goal.
During the course of a long and distinguished public career, Sir Roger has archived articles, images and speeches, many of which are available through this website under the archives page.
Under archives you will find such items as Roger Douglas’ radical ‘Alternative Budget’ 1980, which saw the then Labour MP demoted to the backbenches for his outspoken views.
Upon becoming the Lange Government’s Minister of Finance in 1984, Roger Douglas proceeded to lead an economic revolution with the aim of dismantling privilege – creating an economic dynamic that would grow the country out of what was, at the time, an unprecedented economic crisis. ‘Rogernomics’ as the reform and its broader economic theory came to be known, continues to be a hot topic with many supporters and detractors both in New Zealand, and worldwide.
Sir Roger first entered parliament in 1969 as a third-generation Labour MP, and after a long break away from the House returned at the 2008 election as an ACT MP.
Sir Roger continues to be an outspoken critic of bad economic policy in New Zealand. To view his advice to - and criticisms of – the National Government, see the press releases and articles page.
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