抄録
In this paper, I summarized the social security system in NZ, highlighting significant system reforms as below: a series of humanitarian policies called epoch-making “State Experiment” established by New Zealand Liberal Party in 1890s, comprehensive and universal the Social Security Act of 1938, which made NZ called “welfare state”, retrenchment in social security system through the neoliberal public sector reform from the late 1980s to 1990s, the public health sector reform emphasizing people’s needs and equality and the programs against child poverty in 2000s.
Many of the stable social security schemes have been constructed beyond the insecure times caused by the changes of political administrations. The Ardern administration made efforts to equalize health services access between Māori and Pakeha, the covid-19 pandemic, however, deteriorated their plans. The Ardern administration had reputations for its dealing with the pandemic through evidence-based manners, while countries all over the world as well as NZ struggled. Yet the result is that she and her colleagues lost the way-out owing to the prolonged covid-19 pandemic. The next government stated the halt of the reform, so it will take us some time to judge whether the reform can attain its goals or not.
