Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Showing posts with label Class Conflict in the Countryside. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Class Conflict in the Countryside. Show all posts

Friday, 30 November 2018

Winston Keeps His Pledge To The Small Businesses Of Small-Town New Zealand.

Class Warrior: Like his predecessors in the Social Credit Political League, the NZ First leader is acutely aware that the small rural tow...

Friday, 1 June 2018

Who's Left In The Country?

In The Most Unlikely Of Places: The store of left-wing votes in the countryside, revealed in the Taranaki-King Country by-election of 19...

Friday, 22 September 2017

Some Things Never Change.

Sheer, Red-Baiting Idiocy: Here, just five days out from a general election, was proof that, in this country, there are still places whic...

Tuesday, 19 September 2017

When The Country Goes To Town.

Pretty Ugly, Pretty Quickly: That the demographic and cultural divide between rural and urban New Zealand remains a source of deep une...

Thursday, 8 July 2010

Stemming the Flow

Trotters Creek, North Otago. WHEN IT COMES to Trotters Creek, I have to admit, I’m biased. My family has farmed that part of North Otago sin...

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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.

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