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Ruminations of an Old New Zealander
About Me
- Chris Trotter
- Chris Trotter has spent most of his adult life either engaging in or writing about politics. He was the founding editor of The New Zealand Political Review (1992-2005) and in 2007 authored No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand. Living in Auckland with his wife and daughter, Chris describes himself as an “Old New Zealander” – i.e. someone who remembers what the country was like before Rogernomics. He has created this blog as an archive for his published work and an outlet for his more elegiac musings. It takes its name from Bowalley Road, which runs past the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life. Enjoy.
Bowalley Road Rules
The blogosphere tends to be a very noisy, and all-too-often a very abusive, place. I intend Bowalley Road to be a much quieter, and certainly a more respectful, place.
So, if you wish your comments to survive the moderation process, you will have to follow the Bowalley Road Rules.
These are based on two very simple principles:
Courtesy and Respect.
Comments which are defamatory, vituperative, snide or hurtful will be removed, and the commentators responsible permanently banned.
Anonymous comments will not be published. Real names are preferred. If this is not possible, however, commentators are asked to use a consistent pseudonym.
Comments which are thoughtful, witty, creative and stimulating will be most welcome, becoming a permanent part of the Bowalley Road discourse.
However, I do add this warning. If the blog seems in danger of being over-run by the usual far-Right suspects, I reserve the right to simply disable the Comments function, and will keep it that way until the perpetrators find somewhere more appropriate to vent their collective spleen.
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2 comments:
The tremendous effort, resources and time the organisers, supporters, activists and helpers have put into this great public service is highly commendable.
Here are a few quotes to ponder:
‘.. the modern world has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy’.
— Alex Carey
‘In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility’.
— Norman Cousins
‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and democracy. Power is ever stealing from the many to the few’.
–Wendell Phillips
‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing’.
–Edmund Burke
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The daily blog will be live streaming tonight's Town Hall meeting at 7 pm:
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/01/26/tppa-live-stream-exclusive-to-tdb-from-auckland-town-hall-at-7pm-tonight
watched the stream, well done to all, if it had been broadcast to the whole nation it is likely that the PM’s head would be figuratively on a stick by Friday such are the matters that “Keysie” has chosen to bury or divert the public from
independent streaming is the future of media and the future is now (how is that for a Dubya-ism)
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