Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences

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I hate national. I tried to cope saying it wouldn't be that bad but holy shit these guys suck. Their entire term has just been the dumbest policy decision after dumbest policy decision.
- But look on the bright side. At least we won't know how much smoking uptake has increased.
Rip, I thought NZ was more based than this.
- We had quite the government change about a year ago.
  
  I note the article describes the government as "centre-right". This is a common description for the party that the prime minister is from, but the government is made up of three parties. That centre-left party, a populist party, and a much-further-right party.
  
  I think in the media we see parties described in a way that clashes with historic understandings of where the left, centre & right are purely because the right has been driven so much further to the extremes than 50+ years ago.
  
  I would describe the parties like this:
  
  TPM: Left
  
  Green: Centre-Left
  
  Labour: Centre-Right
  
  NZ First: Centre-Right
  
  National: Right
  
  Act: Far Right
  
  I'm sure some would argue Green & TPM are Far-Left, but neither are really calling for the over throw of the capitalist state or anything so I just don't really see it, i'd put Act at Far-Right because they essentially want to dissolve the power of the state entirely outside of its role in policing internally & externally.

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