Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 8 June 2012

Be Careful What You Wish For

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Only A Superficial Likeness: With the electoral logic of the 2014 General Election driving Labour and the Greens in opposite ideologic...
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012

A Monstrous Power

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Show Me The Money! Walt Disney's view of MB. Scrooge McDuck swims like a porpoise through the all-too-real cash piled up in his mone...
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Monday, 4 June 2012

Long Live The Republic!

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Sixty Glorious Years: But Elizabeth Windsor was not born to be Queen. Indeed had her wicked uncle, Edward VIII, been just a little cleve...
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The Journey: A Political Memoir - Posting No. 9

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Scene Of The Crime: The Labour Party met for its annual conference in the Christchurch Town Hall in August 1985. It was there that the i...
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Friday, 1 June 2012

Political Dementia - Or, Is Labour In Need Of Aged Care?

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Political Decline: How sad it will be if New Zealand’s oldest political party is forced to end its days looking out at a world it is no ...
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Thursday, 31 May 2012

The Journey: A Political Memoir - Posting No. 7

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And So It Begins ... :  Roger Douglas announces radical tax reform in his first Budget, November 1984. The regressive Goods & Service...
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Shattered Symbol

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Symbol Of A City: As the Cathedral fares, so fares Christchurch itself. IF QUEEN ELIZABETH, inspired by her financial advisers, dec...
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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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