Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 31 August 2012

A Proprietary Interest

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To Name Is To Own: Now known as Trotter's Creek this little river in North Otago was originally called Te Awakakokomuka. What became...
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Thursday, 30 August 2012

More "West Wing" Than Left-Wing

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Magical Thinking: So compelling was Aaron Sorkin's script for the hit TV series The West Wing that it was easy to forget that ...
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Our Diminishing Capacity For Empathy

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  A Failure Of Empathy: The casual cruelty of Barbara Sumner-Burstyn's Facebook posting about the death of Lance Corporal Jacinda Ba...
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Friday, 24 August 2012

Ghosts That Walk In The Dark

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Turbans and Kalashnikovs: The mental image most New Zealanders hold of the Taliban is of   Taliban 1.0 - the religious student army tha...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

All Equal Under The African Sun

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Sharpeville, South Africa, 21 March 1960: Sixty-nine black South Africans, protesting against Apartheid, were shot down by the white Sou...
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Friday, 17 August 2012

Unimpeachable Credentials

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And So It Begins: Co-Leader of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia, is "red-eyed" by John Ansell as part of his "Colourblind N...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Running On Different Lines

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A Different Ethos: A page from the May 1938 issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine . There are more ways to measure the value of an...
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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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