Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 10 September 2021

Strange And Disturbing Times 2.0

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Strange And Disturbing: If we are not living through revolutionary times, then what sort of times  are  we living through? Is there another...
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Making The Terrorism Suppression Act Fit-For-Purpose.

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Infamous Day: Tomorrow, 11 September 2021, is the twentieth anniversary of the New York and Washington terrorist attacks. Think of the prel...
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Thursday, 9 September 2021

Equality, Equity & The Great Race Of Life.

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Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: For many – perhaps most – people, the word ‘equity” is a synonym for the word “equality”. And, to be fair, th...
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Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Hollow Laughter, Mixed With Tears.

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Guarding The Stable Door: In the absence of the hard evidence only an actual terrorist atrocity can supply, the ability of New Zealand’s nat...
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Saturday, 4 September 2021

Staying Focused: Why Labour Still Won’t Help The Poor.

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Still Waiting: Triennium after triennium, this tawdry charade goes on. Labour’s leaders speak of rescuing the poor, not because they have an...
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Friday, 3 September 2021

Not On The List.

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A Moral Authority? The Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, is supposed to uphold the secular character of the New Zealand state. As...
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Thursday, 2 September 2021

Beyond Hate.

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Mistaken Identity: TV3 journalist Paddy Gower went looking for hate as if it was a criminal that could be brought to justice. He talked abo...
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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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