Someone Else's Country (part 3 of 4)

By Anonymous (not verified) , 30 January, 2005
Author
eshay

In the 1980s and 90s the nation's assets were sold off at bargain basement prices, generally into foreign ownership. The nation's oil and gas resources, vast tracts of forest, the railways, and Telecom all went. For the small elite of right wing businessmen, public servants and politicians behind this transformation, privatisation were just a part of a wider agenda to turn New Zealand into a model free market state.