Part Two - Someone Else's Country Panel Discussion

Someone Else's Country is independent filmmaker Alister Barry's in-depth look at the economic revolution that took place in New Zealand in the 1980s at the hands of then Labour Finance Minister Roger Douglas. The country's fourth Labour Government had been voted in on a traditional Labour platform, but unbeknownst to the public, it would implement a radical programme of right-wing economic policies as proscribed by the World Bank and the ideologues behind the Thatcher and Reagan administrations in Britain and the US. Barry's 1996 debut documentary, which draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key players of the time, was refused a screening by TVNZ until it was belatedly aired in 2004. In 2008 White Fungus held a screening of Someone Else's Country and a panel disussion at Massey University. The panel was hosted by White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson and featured Alister Barry, Nicky Hager and Tim Bollinger.

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