Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Who Is The Best Judge Of The People’s “Wellbeing”?

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Happiness Relocated: The revelation that the model, and her young daughter, whose smiling faces adorned the cover of Grant Robertson...
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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Simon Opens Fire – And I Apologise For Going Off Half-Cocked.

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Fighting Back: What at first looked like political suicide, turned out to be a winning strategy for National's Simon Bridges. His wr...
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Friday, 12 April 2019

Making The Tradies Pay.

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Crunching The Numbers: On the subject of the Capital Gains Tax, it is simply not sufficient to assert that all income is the same and, t...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Convenient Fictions

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Abstract Noun: Do our political leaders still cleave to the Jeffersonian principle that government derives its just powers “from the cons...
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Friday, 5 April 2019

Shadows Of The Past.

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The Past Intrudes Upon The Present:   While they continue to ride forth, pausing in their wild career to salute with uplifted arms, and u...
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The Multiple Faces Of Radicalisation.

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Radicals Come In All Shapes And Sizes: Consider the radicalisation taking place under our very noses in the sociology, women’s, indigen...
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Unwilling To Disclose.

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Targeted: The great bundle of bearish energy that is my friend, Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury, could not understand why, suddenly, his usuall...
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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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