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A year on from New Zealand's big lockdown the 'team of 5 million' needs a new story

By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University

A year after Aotearoa New Zealand went into full lockdown for a month (it felt like longer, but lasted from March 25 to April 27), the country has without doubt fared better than many other places.

True, the cost of buying (or renting) a house is terrifyingly high, the capital city’s infrastructure is crumbling (literally bursting, actually, in the case of its water…

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