- Enough income to live on down from 68.1% in 2021 to 60.9% in 2023
- Have had to cut back on fruit and veggies to save money – up from 23.3% in 2018 to 47.7%
- In a poor state of general health – up from 14.7% to 19.2%
- Feel safe at home at night – down from 86.7% to 80.1%
- Feel safe out at night – down from 61.9% to 55.1%
- Mean trust for other NZers – down from 6.8/10 to 6.5/10
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
2 comments:
All thanks to Comrade Ardern - the once leader of the World Junior Communist Party. She was the wrecking ball.
She ran off before she got voted out.
Life and society, while left considerably worse under Labour, was hardly anything to boast about beforehand.
In the time Germany produced its way literally out of extreme but very deserving post war debt & ruins, NZ did nothing but squander our resources & privileged position.
We have had decades of poor policy that has been fixated on encouraging people to become less self-sufficient, less skilled & a lot more complacent & lazy.
Education standards, for example, have been declining for years. The current round of first year uni students were in primary school under National when we were already seeing State schools focus more on ideology than learning, with their regular teachers absent more often than not.
So yes, the 6th Labour govt & was probably the most incompetent & mentally screwed up govt we have ever had, but any feelings of prosperity & progress before them were probably a facade.
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