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Ruthanasia, a portmanteau of "Ruth" and "euthanasia", is the pejorative name (typically used by opponents) given to the period of free-market policies conducted during the first term of the fourth National government in New Zealand, from 1990 to 1993. As the first period of reform from 1984 to 1990 was known as Rogernomics after the Labour Party Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas, so the second period became known as "Ruthanasia", after the National Party's Minister of Finance, Ruth Richardson.[1][2]
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Ruth Richardson...the architect of Ruthanasia.
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Ruth Richardson, the former New Zealand Finance Minister whose anti-welfare message and austerity cuts were dubbed 'Ruthanasia'...