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The role of a right-wing think tank, the Atlas Network, in the Luxon National coalition

Robin Westenra

Atlas Network (that Seymour has NO links with wink wink): “A crash programme of massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; centralising political power; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations and oligarchs; destroying regulations that protect workers, vulnerable people and the living world; supporting landlords against tenants; criminalising peaceful protest; restricting the right to strike.

I quote: “The Prime Minister’s chief policy adviser Matt Burgess received the briefing note, which had been delivered in hard copy in mid-2024. Burgess was in the role in the Prime Minister’s office between January 2024 to October 2025, and had previously worked at the New Zealand Initiative think tank as senior economist”. This is a known Atlas Network advisor on the payroll of the New Zealand Prime Minister.”

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