By Peter Dunne Originally published in March 2021 (during the country’s fourth lockdown). Over a year into the Covid-19 crisis there is an unnatural air...
By Peter Dunne (a precis of a comment published January 28, 2021) following new ‘community’ Covid detections and 18 days before Auckland went into another...
Lacking healthy liberal scepticism By Peter Dunne The 53rd New Zealand Parliament elected recently [late 2020] is without doubt the most representative in our history. It...
By Brett Crombie, director, Straightedge Accounting. Now that the dust has settled on the election [2020] and the new Government has been sworn in, it...
By Peter Dunne. I will be voting ‘Yes’ in the recreational cannabis reform referendum this month [2020], simply because I believe the current law is not...
By Peter Dunne, political commentator and ex-MP. By any measure the National Party has been the most successful New Zealand political party of recent times....
Hon Peter Dunne reflects on an unique New Zealand event The period of Matariki, the celebration of the Maori New Year, which began last month [July 2020],...
A recurring theme in contemporary literature is of the plague that appears suddenly from nowhere and takes hold of the world, destroying or severely damaging...
The enormity of the government’s task in defining the scope of the national lockdown has been highlighted by the confusion over what constitute essential services...