We’re Freer Than Ever Before, Says Mr Fraser
“Our liberty, which is the total of all our freedom, is greater today as a result of the Labour Government legislation than at any time in New Zealand’s history,” said the Prome Minister, Mr Fraser, in his address at the Labour Party conference.
Mr Fraser affirmed that the concept of human freedom today had broadened to include freedom, from want. This had been achieved in New Zealand through such measures as the Government’s wages policy, social security and full employment. In fact, the whole economic policy of the Government, designed to further the maximum welfare of the whole Dominion, was conditioned to ensure that want, and fear of want, would not return to New Zealand.
The constant protesting of the National Party against controls was fundamentally due to the desire to put the clock back, to subtract from the economic freedom of the many and to* enhance the freedom of the privileged. “The myth that they would spread is that controls are the negation of freedom,” he added. “The truth is that freedom cannot exist unless we are willing to surrender some of it.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 48, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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