AKL transport project becomes heated state housing fight
It could be dead in the water after next month’s election but Labour’s $29b plus Light Rail project for Auckland continues to keep hostilities between...
Category : National Politics
What the polling entrails tell us
By Peter Dunne, political observer Seasoned politicians and political observers follow the opinion poll ratings of the various parties in a way others might consider...
The countdown to our future has begun
By Dr Muriel Newman NZ Centre for Political Research, originally published in the NZCPR May magazine, and redacted for Local Government magazine. The release of...
Controlling the narrative
By Peter Dunne One of the lessons the Government learned early in the Covid response was the importance of ‘controlling the narrative’. The flow of...
Decisions looming on Representation Issues
While new requirements relating to the establishment of Maori wards and constituencies are still awaiting enactment in the Local Government Electoral Legislation Bill, Gavin Beattie,...
Essential public safeguards to democracy
The offices of the Ombudsman and the Controller and Auditor-General are two important independent statutory agencies charged with protecting aspects of the public interest against...
Government’s spinning plates starting to wobble
Government’s spinning plates starting to wobble By Shane Jones, NZ First. While the Prime Minister is on ice somewhere in Antarctica – a cold and...
Hamilton West – the election bell-weather seat
There was a clear air of self-satisfied smugness within the Labour Party when Dr Gaurav Sharma was expelled from its Caucus. By Peter Dunne. A...
A perspective on national security
By Peter Dunne In many ways, the essential story of New Zealand over the last hundred years or so has been our search for security....
A modern-day version of borrow and hope
By Peter Dunne. An elaborate but ultimately irrelevant game of ‘pass the parcel’ is being played out at present about who is responsible for inflation...