Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

A Photograph Taken On Labour Day

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Labour Day, Dunedin, 1894: As the unions mass in what is now Dunedin's Queen's Gardens, a mother leans forward to tell her child...
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Friday, 25 October 2013

"Will You Take Revolution With Your Tea?"

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Grass Roots Fervour: The American political class is only now becoming aware of how dangerous the monster created by billionaire far-rig...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

A Difficult Transition: Maori Abandon Enchanment For Transparency

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Driving The Transition: The large iwi-based corporations - epitomised by Ngai Tahu's impressive corporate structure, headed by Mark...
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Friday, 18 October 2013

"Low Trust Clients" Meet "No Sympathy State"

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The Implacable Face Of An Implacable Regime: Victor Hugo's unforgettable bloodhound, Inspector Javert (played here by Russell Crowe...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Low Turnout Won’t Be Fixed By “Online Voting”

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Hackers To The Rescue? Professor J. Alex Halderman (second from right) and his merry band of hackers showed just how vulnerable online ...
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Friday, 11 October 2013

Trading in "Free" For "Fair"?

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But Will Labour Make It? With David Cunliffe announcing the return of "Red Labour" following a rank-and-file instigated "...
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Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Targeting The Policy Agreement

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Policy Target: The Reserve Bank Act (1989)  It was one of the Neoliberal Counter-Revolution's primary objectives: to keep the interf...
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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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