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From the Ivory Tower
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There is no moral underpinning to the Kiwi dream

OPINION: Only a dream of property ownership.

Robert MacCulloch Thu, 21 Apr 2022

In 2008, Prime Minister Helen Clark’s Minister of Housing, Maryan Street, gave a speech entitled ‘Home ownership: Protecting the Kiwi Dream’. The same theme was picked up in 2015 by Labour’s then leader, Andrew Little, who is now Minister of Health. At his first annual conference, he

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