16 Oct 2025

Pension Wars: How A Gold-Plated Promise Changed NZ Politics

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It's the third rail of New Zealand politics: Touch it and you die. From Richard Seddon's groundbreaking old-age pension, to Rob Muldoon's Dancing Cossacks, to Jim Bolger's "no ifs, no buts, no maybes" Corin Dann and Guyon Espiner trace the controversial history of New Zealand Superannuation.

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