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The Flight of the Kiwi: Economic Growth and Society in New Zealand

New Zealand began its European era as something of an experiment. Edward Gibbon Wakefield attempted to circumvent the pressures of capitalist Britain by seeking a middle-class prosperity for his colonists. The working class who accompanied them, rather than wait to be raised economically and socially by the Wakefield scheme, struck for an eight-hour day immediately upon their arrival, and they achieved it, in 1840. The crown and clergy, anxious to protect the native population against the worst consequences of European civilization, assumed total protection of the Maori people by the Treaty of Waitangi. The quest for prosperity, a humanized form of capitalism, and responsible race relations have remained the enduring objectives of the New Zealand experiment to the present day. Their achievement has rested upon an ever increasing degree of state intervention, a feature which has created a vast misconception amongst observers and citizens alike concerning the true nature of New Zealand's 'socialism'. This socialism has never had much to do with doctrinaire socialism. State intervention in New Zealand has been more of a response to a widely held belief in egalitarianism, so central to New Zealand political life (it is after all the ethos which resolves any conflicts that arise between the competing objectives of the New Zealand experiment) that all the political parties have to retain it as central to their own thinking, pushing