Professor Robert MacCulloch: A brighter Future for NZ'ers involves the outright rejection of Labour's Make-the-People-Dependent Doctrine

Although Ardern tried hard to divide Kiwis along every imaginable line for her own political benefit, an inescapable fact is that a profound cultural factor, way bigger than her, unites us all together. We have our roots in making our way through our own industry. When people started to migrate to NZ, whether indigenous or not, they had to depend on themselves, friends and family for survival. There was no welfare state back then. Out of this history, an important part of our culture became the "can-do" attitude - Kiwi ingenuity, the number 8 fencing-wire, practicality - taking calculated risks that many in the Old World had lost. Cut to modern times and this is the current philosophy of the NZ Labour Party, as espoused by its current and former leaders: