Actually Chippie there were no forced public sector redundancies

Chris Hipkins said:

Growing up in the Hutt Valley during the 1980s I saw, first hand, the impact the great rolling back of the state had on many of our families. Many of the kids I went to school with had parents who had worked in the public services and found themselves on the economic scrap heap, thanks to Rogernomics. Those parents struggled to provide their kids with the basics in life.

A reader who held a senior role in the public sector at that time tells me this is not correct. I am informed there were no compulsory redundancies in the public sector. The only redundancies were from public servants who chose to take what was a relatively generous voluntary redundancy package.