In this episode, Mika and Rayne talk with Dr. Jim McAloon. Jim is a prolific author and a professor of history at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Mika, Rayne and Jim chat about New Zealand’s economic and political history, the history of the labour movement, and Christianity in the political sphere. Jim offers critical reflections on the church, its various attempts at political involvement, and where he finds hope in it all.

Show notes

• Robert Muldoon, NZ Prime Minister 1975–84

• First Labour government, 1935 to 1949

• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)

• Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000, Geoff Eley (2002)

• Walter Nash, NZ Prime Minister 1957–60

• Judgements of all Kinds: Economic Policy-Making in New Zealand 1945–1984 (2013) Jim McAloon

• Roger Douglas, NZ Minister of Finance 1984–88

• Michael Joseph Savage, NZ Prime Minister 1935–40

• Jack Marshall, NZ Prime Minister 1972

• Pacem in Terris, Pope John XXIII (1963)

• Laudato si', Pope Francis (2015)

• Living Wage Aotearoa

• Alison Clarke, historian of religion

• John Stenhouse, historian

• Tom Brooking, historian

• Harry Holland, Labour party leader 1919–33

• Rangi Māwhete, Legislative Council member 1936–50

• Te Haahi Rātana

• Richard Hill, Director,  Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre

• 1908 Blackball strike

• 1912 Waihi strike

• The Making of the English Working Class, E.P. Thompson (1963)

• Thomas Merton (1915–68)