Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 1 February 2019

There Can be Only One Green Party.

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Spoiler Alert: If the Greens and NZ First fall below the MMP threshold – if only by a sliver of a percentage point – and Labour fails to...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Red Noise: Should RNZ Be Promoting “Progressive” Causes?

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Advocacy Journalism: Should a radical resetting of Auckland City’s priorities ever be undertaken in the way the “expert witnesses” quote...
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Saturday, 26 January 2019

The Jacinda Problem: Where She Goes, We Go.

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She's With Me: It wasn't quite Mickey Savage's "where she stands, we stand; where she goes, we go", but Jacinda Ar...
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Friday, 18 January 2019

Silence Of The Lambs: Why Is The CTU Saying So Little About The Resident Doctors’ Struggle?

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“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies … but the silence of our friends.”   ─ Martin Luther King THE COUNTRY’S...
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The Politics Of Distraction.

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Keeping Their Eyes On The Road: The Coalition Government's re-election depends crucially on the dominant themes of the 2020 election...
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Friday, 11 January 2019

Fanning The Flames.

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F.Anning Discontent: Far-Right politicians like Fraser Anning (above right) are highly-skilled at exploiting racially charged narratives...
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Friday, 4 January 2019

2019 - If We Get Lucky.

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Sweet Dream Scenario:   As Vice-President Mike Pence is being sworn-in as the 46th President of the United States - following Trump's...
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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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