An account of the policy development of the Ardern-Hipkins New Zealand Labour Government (2017-2023), which focuses on its policies in the context of New Zealand’s longer term economic history, updating Not in Narrow Seas. It includes chapters on wellbeing, economic and social development, the international order, migration and diversity, Māori issues, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, governance, generic management, the healthcare system, education and science, inequality, poverty, modernisation, Covid policy, climate change and the evolving direction of New Zealand.