Yet National borrowed $4 billion to cut the taxes of the wealthiest 10 percent of New Zealanders. National says bringing every child out of poverty is a nice-to-have, but one that it is ultimately incompatible with their free-market economic agenda. They have failed to see the faces that stand behind our awful child poverty statistics and use the practical tools available to them to respond compassionately.
anti-imperialistic, for example against controlling other countries and for greater self-government of colonies