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Dunne's Weekly: Is Andrew Little Wellington's Mayor-In-Waiting?
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 9:59 am | Peter Dunne
Andrew Little was regarded in national politics as a reasonable, competent safe pair of hands, although sometimes his passion got the better of him, causing the National-led Government to label him "Angry Andy" after one of his not infrequent outbursts in ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: While We're Breaking Up Monoliths, What About MBIE?
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 8:06 am | Peter Dunne
To ensure New Zealand does not become a backwater for international sporting and related events, the government ought to establish a stand-alone independent specialist agency to work on both securing such events for New Zealand and the public and private ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: The "War On Woke" Is Really Just A "War Of Words"
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 9:13 am | Peter Dunne
By claiming the “anti-woke” ground as his own, Peters has stolen an early march on his rivals and thereby probably ensured New Zealand First’s re-election. Peters has always understood better than most that politics is about the acquisition and ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: ACC Rules On Volunteers Need To Change
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 8:27 am | Peter Dunne
The only ACC Minister to show any real interest in and understanding of the issue was Matt Doocey, who was, unfortunately, reshuffled out of the portfolio earlier this year. His successors are yet to show their interest. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: School Lunches Fiasco Shows What Happens When Social Policy Loses Focus
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 11:19 am | Peter Dunne
When the current government took office in 2023 and sought to pare back government spending, the school lunch programme was an early target. The government produced a plan to centralise and standardise the school lunches operation which would save More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Five Top Resignations Just Coincidence?
Friday, 7 March 2025, 8:51 am | Peter Dunne
Sudden resignations and abrupt departures seem to be the fashion at present. First there was the chief executive of Health New Zealand who announced her resignation four months before her contract was due to expire, and left her role almost immediately. ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: The Unwelcome Case Of Peter Thiel
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 8:33 am | Peter Dunne
The Thiel case is a salutary reminder that citizenship can never be allowed to become just one more commodity to be casually traded as part of a putative investment deal. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: It's Now Lowest Common Denominator Politics Instead Of Informed Political Debate
Friday, 21 February 2025, 9:49 am | Peter Dunne
The demise of political debate as it used to be, in favour of the fervent, dogmatic statement of party opinion as incontrovertible fact as we have now, has dramatically changed the nature of political discourse around the world. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Next Election Still National's To Lose
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 9:15 am | Peter Dunne
The National-led coalition is more precariously positioned at present than each of the last two Labour-led governments were at similar stages in the previous two Parliaments. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Corporate Tax Reduction Overdue
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 8:36 am | Peter Dunne
Only two business tax reductions in the last 36 years & the last one nearly 14 years ago, at a time of considerable change & turmoil not only shows how badly NZ has lagged other countries, especially at a time when the international movement of capital ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: ACT Looks Backwards
Friday, 31 January 2025, 10:34 am | Peter Dunne
The focus on this new entity would be on the buildings and would exclude the delivery of health and education services and staffing so as not to compromise the continued public ownership of those services. It would be solely about managing public assets ... More >>
Parliament's Annual Rituals Are Underway Again
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 8:39 am | Peter Dunne
When Parliament resumes next week, the first item of business will be the presentation of the Prime Minister’s Statement, which is supposed to set out the broad thrust of the government’s legislative plans for the year ahead. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Some Observations On A Turbulent Political Year
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 8:48 am | Peter Dunne
Parliament's best performer – as opposed to politician of the year – has been Speaker Gerry Brownlee who has performed his role with the patience, wisdom and dignity that critics might not previously expected of him. More >>
Luxon's Political Communication Challenge
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 9:09 am | Peter Dunne
DUNNE’S WEEKLY As the government begins its second year in office there has been much comment about the leadership style and tone of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. By his own admission he is not a career politician. There have been occasions when ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Mayor Whanau's Rare Win - To Her City's Detriment
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 9:51 am | Peter Dunne
For a Mayor for whom nearly everything has gone wrong in the last two years, this week’s Council decisions are a rare and welcome win, even if they are perpetuating the wrong direction the city has been heading in. More >>
The Wrong Answer To A Question That Does Not Exist
Friday, 22 November 2024, 10:45 am | Peter Dunne
The Treaty is therefore our modus operandi for common nationhood. It is not about the dominance of one signatory over the other, but as Norman Kirk said, about how we all live together in these islands. In that regard, the TPB is simply the wrong ... More >>
National And Labour Combine To Shut Out Greens
Friday, 15 November 2024, 9:42 am | Peter Dunne
It is probably just a coincidence that National’s and Labour’s broad agreement was announced just a week after the Wellington tunnels decision and the Green Party’s response, but it does change the political component quite considerably. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 8:13 am | Peter Dunne
For all the pious talk, this election cycle has not been the showcase for democracy Americans might wish. It has left the United States more divided than at any point since the end of the Civil War in 1865. More >>
Volunteers Run Our Emergency Services
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 10:27 am | Peter Dunne
The United Fire Brigades Association (UFBA) represents the country’s more than 12,000 urban and rural volunteer firefighters and emergency workers. Volunteers account for around 86% of all firefighters and cover 93% of the national landmass. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Time To Dump The Electoral Integrity Act!
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 8:59 am | Peter Dunne
Tana was expelled because an internal argument with the Green Party over her family’s business affairs led her to resign from the party. More >>
