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Dunne Speaks: Another Twyford Muck-Up Looming
Friday, 18 September 2020, 10:14 am | Peter Dunne
The government’s proposed National Policy Statement on Urban Development is a typical concoction from Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford. Its ambition that local councils “take a long-term strategic approach to the growth of their cities” ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Tedious Start To Election Campaign
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 9:25 am | Peter Dunne
We are only a few days into the election campaign second time around, but already some things have become clear about the campaigns likely to be waged by the various parties. For Labour, the plan is straightforward and basic. As the lead party of ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: It's A Yes From Me
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 9:23 am | Peter Dunne
I will be voting “Yes” in the recreational cannabis reform referendum next month, simply because I believe the current law is not working, and that cannabis should be treated as a health issue, not a legal one, and regulated as such. This intention ... More >>
Dunne Speaks A Week Is A Long Time ...
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 10:16 am | Peter Dunne
During difficult political times in the 1960s former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson observed ruefully that “a week is a long time in politics”. Our Prime Minister could be forgiven for thinking similar thoughts at the moment, as she reflects ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Lockdowns, Here We Go Again
Thursday, 13 August 2020, 9:11 am | Peter Dunne
The return to lockdowns is devastating news, on a variety of fronts. From the health perspective there must now be the deep worry that despite all the steps taken during the earlier lockdowns and the border restrictions and quarantines, there is community ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Will Labour's "No Policy" Campaign Work?
Thursday, 6 August 2020, 8:44 am | Peter Dunne
Cynical and disconcerting as his comments may appear to be, Labour and advertising guru Sir Bob Harvey is probably correct when he says that Labour does not need to campaign to win this year’s election. By taking the position that managing the ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Leave Kiwisaver Alone
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 8:48 am | Peter Dunne
On the face of it, National’s new policy of allowing people to withdraw up to $20,000 from their Kiwisaver accounts to put towards a new busines venture looks attractive, especially as the daunting task of recovery from the economic ravages ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The52nd Parliament Is Hurtling Towards An Inglorious End
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 9:03 am | Peter Dunne
The 52nd Parliament is hurtling towards an inglorious end. It will finish in just over two weeks and will be dissolved shortly thereafter on August 12 in preparation for the September 19 general election. It has been a dramatic term – dominated ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: It's Time For Matariki Day
Thursday, 16 July 2020, 10:41 am | Peter Dunne
The period of Matariki, the celebration of the Māori New Year, which began earlier this week, is being celebrated increasingly as an important national event. While many other countries have their own form of New Year celebrations, Matariki is uniquely ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: An Own Goal To Beat Most Own Goals
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 9:01 am | Peter Dunne
There can be few more spectacular political own goals than that just scored against the National Party by first-term Clutha-Southland MP, Hamish Walker this week. The consequences for Walker personally, and his eminence grise, Michelle Boag, have been ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Scott Watson Case Goes Back To Court
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 9:59 am | Peter Dunne
Over 20 years after the event, the Scott Watson murder case continues to attract public attention. Last week’s decision by the Governor-General to refer the case back to the Court of Appeal is but the latest step in this long saga. The Watson ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: No To User-pays Covid19 Quarantines
Friday, 26 June 2020, 1:55 pm | Peter Dunne
New Zealand’s collective smugness at apparently beating Covid19 earlier than most took quite a hit when new cases started to appear at the very time separate questions were arising about the efficacy of current border control and quarantine practices. ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Old Merry-go-round In The Corner Gets Rolled Out Again
Thursday, 18 June 2020, 8:32 am | Peter Dunne
In a distant corner of the national fairground sits an old piece of equipment that has been around for years, but only gets turned on every decade or so. It never quite manages to do all the things it was supposed to, and so, in frustration, it is closed ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: A No-brainer For The Police
Thursday, 11 June 2020, 9:03 am | Peter Dunne
The Police decision to abandon its Armed Response Teams trial was a no-brainer. The concept was never going to work or be acceptable to a sufficient section of the community to make it viable. Indeed, the only mystery is that it took the Police ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Mixed Messages And The Return To Reality
Thursday, 4 June 2020, 9:33 am | Peter Dunne
Universal public compliance has been one of the major reasons why New Zealand has apparently been so successful in curbing the spread of the Covid19 virus. Fundamentally, people complied with the restrictions imposed during Alert Levels 4 and 3 because ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Polls Show Grim Reality
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 9:14 am | Peter Dunne
Recent public opinion polls are revealing some very interesting, if somewhat contradictory, insights into New Zealanders’ current thinking about the Covid19 crisis and the national response. The most recent 1News Colmar Brunton poll reported that 92% of ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: National's Leadership Battle
Thursday, 21 May 2020, 9:04 am | Peter Dunne
Anyone who doubted that Simon Bridges is a hardened fighter got their answer with his response this week to the leadership rumblings within the National Party. For a leader whose judgement and decisiveness had been questioned on a number of occasions ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Where's The Plan, Grant?
Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:19 am | Peter Dunne
I saw 33 Budgets and many other financial statements introduced during my years in Parliament. Each had their own drama attached to them – some much more than others. The 1984 “Rogernomics” Budget of Sir Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson’s ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: No Time to Cut Corners
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 8:37 am | Peter Dunne
New Zealand has been on a remarkable roller coaster ride over the last couple of months as it has first confronted and now flattened the Covid-19 curve. But now, as the ride is starting to perhaps become a little smoother, some cracks in the basic ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: What's In A Word?
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 9:12 am | Peter Dunne
What’s in a word? Well, not a lot it would seem, if New Zealand’s experience dealing with Covid-19 is any guide. Words now seem apparently to have no definitive meaning, but rather mean that just what those uttering them imagined them to mean ... More >>
