Question
A faction of this party known as the “Backbone club” split off to form the ACT party in 1994. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this party which floated its country’s currency and introduced market reforms as part of Minister of Finance Roger Douglas’s ‘Rogernomics’. This party opposes the National Party.
ANSWER: New Zealand Labour Party [accept equivalents; prompt on Labour by asking “in what country?”]
[10h] When National came to power in 1990, the Minister of Finance continued Rogernomics with her “Mother of all Budgets”. You can give either that minister’s name, or the pejorative term used to refer to her policies.
ANSWER: Ruth Richardson OR Ruthanasia
[10e] In 1986, Labour MP Koro Wētere was pressured to resign as Minister of [this group’s] Affairs when his department arranged an unauthorized overseas loan. This indigenous group’s name for New Zealand is Aotearoa.
ANSWER: Māori [accept Minister of Māori Affairs]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Data
| Toronto cDNA | Toronto Sprout | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |