Kerre Woodham: This is not bold and visionary policy from Labour
About this episode
Kerre Woodham critiques Labour's recent public transport fare policy announcement as lacking boldness and vision.
They say hope is the last thing to die. And thus it was yesterday when I heard Labour's first policy announcement in months. Give me a reason to vote for Labour – and they didn't. Chris Hipkins and Tangi Utikere announced a cap of some public transport fares —mostly for the cities, mostly for Auckland, where there's already a cap— that cuts off at a lower spending base. Not really the sort of bold and visionary policy you'd hope would come from a party that's been sitting around for years in Opposition, promising policy once the Budget's been released like it's going to be something quite seismic, revolutionary, changing the way we do things. A bit like the bold and visionary Labour of yore. That's what they came up with, starting with Michael Joseph Savage and moving through. Labour governments in the past have given us state housing, and the welfare state, and GST, and a shakeup of our economic policy, and a nuclear free New Zealand, and the Super Fund, and Kiwibank, although via Jim Anderton's Progressive Party. You would hardly say that this lot are the visionary Labour politicians of yesteryear. From them we get a lowered cap on public transport – after months, years…
People in this episode
Host: Kerre Woodham
Topics covered
- Labour Party
- public transport policy
- political commentary
- New Zealand politics
- transport fares
- government policy
Keywords
- Labour
- public transport
- Chris Hipkins
- Tangi Utikere
- policy announcement
- New Zealand
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Labour, New Zealand, Kiwibank, Progressive Party, Michael Joseph Savage
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