Guest Post: The Path Back: New Zealand’s 50‑Year Drift — And How We Can Still Turn Around

Wayne Jackson writes on Point of Order

New Zealand likes to imagine itself as a small nation that punches above its weight. But for the past 50 years, we’ve been punching underwater.

Since 1973 — the year Britain joined the European Economic Community and our guaranteed market vanished — New Zealand has been drifting while the rest of the world has been moving with purpose. The countries we once outperformed have overtaken us. The ones we used to pity now lap us. And the reason is painfully simple: when the world changed, New Zealand didn’t.