Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 8 December 2017

Getting Labour "Off The Couch" To Break Unemployment's Vicious Circles.

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Avuncular Intervention: Regional Economic Development Minister, Shane Jones, tells TVNZ's Q+A programme that he is determined to int...
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017

"Closing The Gaps" 2.0

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Dangerous Politics: Both Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson were up-close witnesses of the racist backlash that scuttled the Helen Clark-...
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Saturday, 2 December 2017

Radical Transformers? Doesn't Sound Like It.

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Labour's Responsible Fiscal and Economic Manager? Or, will Grant Robertson's unwavering adherence to his own "Budget Respon...
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Friday, 1 December 2017

Winston Peters Has Options - Jacinda Ardern Does Not.

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Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right: Winston Peters with his crucial nine NZ First seats can make or break the fortunes of both...
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Thursday, 30 November 2017

Green Party Lesson No. 1: Anticipating The Direction Of Political Sniper Fire.

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Not A Good Look: Golriz Ghahraman (then an intern for the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) poses alongside Simon Bik...
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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Genuine Open Government Empowers People And Politicians Alike.

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"What I See, You See." In Chris Mullins' political thriller, A Very British Coup , the democratic-socialist prime minister...
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Tuesday, 28 November 2017

When Five Million Seems Like A Very Small Number.

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Divided Loyalties: When it comes to settling on a Twenty-First Century protector, New Zealand faces a dilemma. The United States provid...
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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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