Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste.

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Greenfields: Minister of Building and Housing, Dr Nick Smith, has argued consistently that Auckland needs to grow out as well as up. He ...
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Saturday, 28 May 2016

Budget 2016: What Bill English Didn’t Say In His Speech.

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Fundamental Changes, Incrementally Advanced: Bill English delivers his eighth budget. The Finance Minister understands very well the de...
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Friday, 27 May 2016

Fewer Is Not Better

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Good Human Material?  Viewed from the outside, Labour offers less-and-less to anyone not already comfortable with the injunctions of poli...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Dying For Latvia?

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Preparing For War: Nato forces in the former Soviet republic of Latvia as part of the 2014 "Silver Arrow" military exercises ...
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Friday, 20 May 2016

Homes Are Where The Votes Are.

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Working Class Voters' Ballot Papers At Work: A massive programme of state house construction; a graduated Land Tax; a radical and c...
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Thursday, 19 May 2016

The Space To Make Dreams Come True: Why Labour’s Latest Move On Housing Could Be A Ground-Breaker.

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Back To The Future:  By sanctioning green-field (as opposed to brown-field) housing development, Phil Twyford and his colleagues are now ...
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Wednesday, 18 May 2016

An Opposition Worthy Of The Name?

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A Government In Waiting? Labour's embrace of neoliberalism in the mid-1980s left the party with the political equivalent of syphilis...
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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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