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Dunne Speaks: Why Parliamentary Questions Matter
Thursday, 22 November 2018, 9:24 am | Peter Dunne
There is a popular misconception that the apparently clubby nature of Parliament means that all MPs, in Government or Opposition, have pretty much the same access to information. That has never been the case, even since the introduction of MMP. ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Pike River Re-entry
Thursday, 15 November 2018, 8:50 am | Peter Dunne
It is perhaps a commentary in itself of this Government’s media management skills that it chose to reveal the two worst kept political secrets of its tenure to date on the same day. The first was the confirmation that a manned re-entry of the Pike ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Lees-Galloway Mess
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 8:54 am | Peter Dunne
The one constant about the Karel Sroubek case is that every day seems to reveal more uncertainty. But while we are no closer to either a resolution of the case, or even a clear understanding of why Minister Lees-Galloway has acted the way he has, some ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Kiwibuild Straight Out of the Blackadder
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 12:07 pm | Peter Dunne
Kiwibuild is beginning to look more and more like no more than one of Edmund Blackadder’s cunning plans. While this week’s controversy about the couple getting the first Kiwibuild home is nothing like the drama National is making it out to be, it is nevertheless ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Bigger things than polls decide elections
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 8:50 am | Peter Dunne
It would be unwise to read to too much into this week's TVNZ Colmar Brunton political poll. Polls, after all, are but a snapshot in time, and the timing of the poll coincided with one of the most unusual weeks in New Zealand politics in a very long while. ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Smiles and Pixie Dust are Not Enough
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 9:05 am | Peter Dunne
Just a year ago, as the pixie dust gently fluttered down, and the smiles flashed, there was nothing the new government could not do. With kindness and relentless positivity, everything was suddenly possible, inspired by the clarion call, “Let’s do this!” ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: When Kindness Meets Tough Reality
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 9:32 am | Peter Dunne
In the wake of its greatest triumph to date, the Coalition Government is about to face its greatest challenge. And one will have been the cause of the other. More >>
New Zealand First's Three Strikes Against Diversity
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 9:12 am | Peter Dunne
Over the last few weeks there have been three subtle but deliberate moves from New Zealand First which, while on the face of it are apparently unrelated, nonetheless, when taken together amount to a significant attempt to limit diversity and debate ... More >>
The Government's Performance is the Problem, not MMP
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 9:26 am | Peter Dunne
Much of the commentary about the recent ructions within the coalition government has settled on MMP as either the explanation or the blame for what has been going on. In reality, it is neither. MMP is but an electoral system. The blame or explanation ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - The row over Clare Curran’s emails
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 10:42 am | Peter Dunne
No sooner had the former Minister resigned her remaining portfolios than she was admitting there might be more emails on her private email address with chief technology officer prospect Derek Handley than she first acknowledged, but that she was working ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Who is Really Pulling the Government's Strings
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 9:14 am | Peter Dunne
When a few months ago New Zealand First abruptly vetoed Labour’s plans to repeal the three strikes criminal justice law it was glibly explained away by Labour as just a breakdown in communication that would be resolved by the time a policy paper ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Leadership Ructions Not Limited to Australia
Thursday, 30 August 2018, 8:52 am | Peter Dunne
There has been much scoffing and guffawing on this side of the Tasman in the last week about the brutal public coup within the ruling Liberal Party that saw the replacement of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister by Scott Morrison. More >>
Dunne Speaks: National's Good Times Over
Thursday, 23 August 2018, 9:08 am | Peter Dunne
For most of the ten months since the change of government, the National Party has had the best of times. Thrust unexpectedly into the role of Opposition, it has settled to its task, with few outward stumbles. It has managed a leadership transition without ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Teachers' Strike
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 9:23 am | Peter Dunne
This week around 30,000 primary and intermediate school teachers have been on strike, closing nearly 2,000 schools for a day. To date, there appears to have been general public support for the industrial action, but the jury is still out as to whether ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Free Speech heads for the abyss
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 8:43 am | Peter Dunne
The debate around free speech and what constitutes it has become toxic and almost irrational. Increasingly, it seems virtually impossible to be able to offer an opinion on it without being labelled as some sort of extremist by one side or the other. ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The PM is back, but things have changed
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 9:23 am | Peter Dunne
The Prime Minister returns from her maternity leave today, but not to lead the same government she was just a few weeks ago. Over recent weeks, the Labour/New Zealand First coalition, supported by the Greens, has undergone a subtle but perceptible ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Public Access is not an Optional Extra
Thursday, 26 July 2018, 9:05 am | Peter Dunne
I am not a xenophobe, nor am I an economic nationalist. I abhor those who try to turn back the clock and shut out any form of foreign intervention in our economy. After all, from its earliest colonial and even pre-colonial days New Zealand has ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Mixed Messages Upset Friends
Thursday, 12 July 2018, 9:03 am | Peter Dunne
Facing once in a generation strikes across the public sector - from nurses to teachers, and core public servants - the Coalition Government has been consistently and confusingly sending a very mixed message. On the one hand, it evinces sympathy for and even empathy ... More >>
Politicians Deserving a Bad Wrap
Thursday, 5 July 2018, 9:37 am | Peter Dunne
Politicians often get a bad wrap, even when they do not deserve it. In that regard, they are one of society's safety-valves. They are always good to sound off against. More >>
Dunne Speaks: Time to Clean Up Our Freshwater Act
Thursday, 28 June 2018, 8:43 am | Peter Dunne
There has been a curiously lethargic reaction to the Land and Water Forum's report regarding steps to improve water quality levels over the next few years. Environmental organisations have decried the report as timid, while the Minister for the Environment ... More >>
