Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

What’s on the Label -vs- What’s in the Tin.

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Would our political parties pass muster under the Fair Trading Act? WHAT IF OUR POLITICAL PARTIES were subject to the Fair Trading Act? Wha...
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Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Our Rough Beast.

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming , 1921 ALL OVER THE ...
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What does India Want? What is New Zealand willing to give?

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Give me what I want, what I really, really want:   And w hat India really wants from New Zealand isn’t butter or cheese, but a radical relax...
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Monday, 24 March 2025

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Chris Trotter   is now on  Substack   visit him at  christrotter418256.substack.com
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Thursday, 20 March 2025

Luxon’s Guests.

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Speilmeister:   Christopher Luxon ’s  prime-ministerial pitches notwithstanding, are institutions with billions of dollars at their disposal...
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Saturday, 15 March 2025

Whistling Past The Graveyard.

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“ Bugger the pollsters!” WHEN EVERYBODY LIVED in villages, and every village had a graveyard, the expression “whistling past the graveyard”...
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Monday, 10 March 2025

Leadership Problems.

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Contenders:  The next question after “Will Luxon really go?” is, of course, “Will that work?” The answer to that question lies not so much i...
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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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