Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Thursday, 13 August 2015

“TPPA, Or Not TPPA?” – Table Talk No. 5 At The Ika Seafood Bar & Grill.

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Star Of The Show: Professor Jane Kelsey takes her role as an academic and public intellectual seriously. For her, the universities’ stat...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Winston Peters Seizes The Moment.

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Eyes On The Prize: Success in the 2017 General Election will go to the politician best equipped to recognize - and exploit - the impend...
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Of Messengers And Messages: Reflections On Rachel Smalley's Controversial Column.

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Greater Gender Balance Equals Greater Diversity? Well, yes, Rachel Smalley, but only in relation to gender - a factor which in no way g...
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Saturday, 8 August 2015

Revolution In Pipitea Street: The Listener Celebrates The Baby-Boomer Takeover Of The SIS And The GCSB.

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Spook Central: Both the SIS and the GCSB are headquartered at "Pipitea Plaza", a 2011 building located just a few hundred metr...
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Friday, 7 August 2015

Reports Of NZ First’s Death Are (Still) Exaggerated.

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Still Smiling: New Zealand’s leading political journalists appear to operate a roster when it comes to disparaging Winston Peters and h...
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Thursday, 6 August 2015

The Contagion Of Hope: Musings On The Jeremy Corbyn Campaign.

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Oh Come All Ye Faithful: How can Jeremy Corbyn possibly be in the lead? After all, the man is an open and unashamed socialist – an affl...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Breathless And Irrelevant: Tim Groser Dismisses the TPPA’s Opponents

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Scold Mode: “We need adults to do this, not breathless children to run off at the mouth when the deal is not actually finished.” Trade ...
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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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