- Title
- Social security, the “Money Power” and the Great Depression: the international dimension to Australian and New Zealand Labour in office
- Creator
- Bennett, James
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Politics & History Vol. 43, Issue 3, p. 312-330
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1997.tb01393.x
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1997
- Description
- The 1938 New Zealand Social Security Act represented a major legislative consolidating measure and contained various measures ‘already in operation overseas such as sickness,orphans and health benefits. Aspects of the scheme were also highly innovative. Accordingly, Walter Nash’s claim regarding its international significance does not seem exaggerated when we consider its comprehensiveness. universal elements and deviation from the orthodox insurance funding basis of other schemes. The Act, characterised by the local branch of the British Medical Association as an attempt at “revolution”, symbolised a spiritual return to the Liberal-Labour Government‘s pioneering social laboratory at the turn of the century and gained a ringing endorsement from the New Zealand electorate. The realisation of the scheme, together with crucial credit and banking reforms carried out by Labour in the mid-l930s, is more comprehensible, however, in the context of an international discourse of reform.
- Subject
- social security; The Great Depression; New Zealand; Australia; Labour
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1308566
- Identifier
- uon:21670
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-9522
- Language
- eng
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