Roger Douglas

New Zealand politician

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In New Zealand: The David Lange government and Labour’s changing leadership (1984–90)
…conflict with the finance minister, Roger Douglas. Douglas was pushing for economic measures, such as a flat-scale tax system and deregulation of the labour unions, that the prime minister considered extreme. Lange dismissed Douglas in December 1988, but in August 1989, with the aim of shoring up Labour’s poor standing…
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