The Kiwi Dream is on Life Support

stuff.co.nz, 25 June 2026

Journalist Damien Venuto’s final instalment of a three-part feature on social cohesion in New Zealand, featuring an extensive interview with Victoria:

“Mulligan has modelled a number of scenarios and looked at what would happen to the country if we faced another sharp economic shock (it could be an energy shock, a pandemic, an earthquake) in the context of the current makeup of our society […] In one scenario, she noted that the country might reach the point where we do start to recover again, which would lead to a great recovery.”

“But here’s the line that really stood out to me: ‘Normal was this: that the pain would be private, and the recovery would be public, and the government would call it resilience’.” READ MORE