Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

The Greens Reach Out To Reach Up

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Reaching Out To The 'New Majority': The Green's Metiria Turei is hoping that by inviting idealistic New Zealanders to join h...
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Friday, 25 January 2013

Doing Something: Obama's Second Inaugural Address

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"We, The People": Unburdened by the compromising calculations of re-election, President Barack Obama, in his second inaugural ...
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Party-Wide Vote No Guarantee Of Shearer (Or Cunliffe) Victory

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Reading The Signs: An early leadership vote in Labour's new Electoral College poses as many political risks for David Shearer as it...
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Friday, 18 January 2013

Australia's Coolies

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Second-Class Non-Citizens: Australia's and New Zealand's Nineteenth Century immigration policies discriminated viciously against...
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Lincoln

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"Government of the people, by the people, for the people." : Saviour of the Union; Emanicpator of the Slaves; and tutelary dei...
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Indisputable Mandate

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Key Policy: In 2011 Labour made opposition to a partial sale of the state's energy assets the centerpiece of its election campaign. ...
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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Behind The Mask: Who's Backing David Shearer - And Why?

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What Lies Beneath? The most plausible explanation for David Shearer's incoherence as a political leader is that he is masking his tr...
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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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