Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 8 July 2022

The Void.

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FROM THE SAME box of old papers I wrote about last week comes another set of lyrics. This time for The Void – a song composed in 1974 when ...
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Defending Dame Lynley.

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Bone Of Contention: Fantastic classics though they may be, opines Perth ’s  Edith Cowan University academic, Dr Helen Adam, books such as Ha...
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Thursday, 7 July 2022

How “New” Is Our Democracy?

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A Living Democracy - But Not A Tyranny Of The Majority: Wellington voters gather outside The Evening Post newspaper offices to see the resu...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Willie Jackson's Problem.

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On The Horns Of A Dilemma: The essence of Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson’s problem is that he can neither withdraw, nor water-dow...
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Monday, 4 July 2022

Forwards And Backwards.

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The Right In Action: Nothing in politics is ever settled. The hands of History’s clock can go backwards, as well as forwards. IT REALLY WAS...
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Sunday, 3 July 2022

Not Looking Truth In The Eye.

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Picturesque Illusion: The  early-Sixties ’ picture-book tableau of cultural homogeneity wasn’t real. The values cherished by America’s and ...
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Friday, 1 July 2022

Look For The Light.

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Metropolis   George Grosz  1918 A FEW HOURS AGO, I was sorting through a box of old papers when I came across these lyrics to a song I’d com...
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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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