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Dunne Speaks: I am almost feeling sorry for the Greens
Thursday, 21 June 2018, 8:30 am | Peter Dunne
I am almost feeling sorry for the Greens. The self-proclaimed party of principle has struggled with the reality of Government, ever since it joined the unholy alliance with Labour and New Zealand First last October. They are the awkward members at the ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Is the Coalition Starting to Unravel?
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 8:31 am | Peter Dunne
Almost 20 years ago, New Zealand's first MMP Coalition Government collapsed. It was not a dramatic implosion on a major point of principle, but was provoked by a comparatively minor issue - a proposal to sell the Government's shares in Wellington Airport - ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Labour's Preoccupation with The Vibe
Thursday, 7 June 2018, 11:20 am | Peter Dunne
For each of us, there is a golden time in our lives, a period we look back on, where everything seemed rosy, where setbacks were few, and which we wish we could recreate tomorrow. It is but a pleasant memory, which rarely can be rekindled, as time and ... More >>
New Zealand - The Not-So-Plucky Little Country
Friday, 1 June 2018, 9:05 am | Peter Dunne
New Zealand likes to portray itself as a small and nimble trading nation, with its own will when it comes to foreign policy, and doing deals in our nation's self-interest. According to the narrative, we are the plucky nation at the end of the world, determinedly ... More >>
How to Make the Cannabis Referendum Work Properly
Thursday, 24 May 2018, 8:23 am | Peter Dunne
Suggestions that the Government wants to bring forward the timing of the referendum on recreational cannabis make good political sense. The current plan to hold the referendum at the same time as the next General Election makes sense from a costs ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Will the Stand-Pat Budget Be Enough?
Friday, 18 May 2018, 8:41 am | Peter Dunne
Grant Robertson says it is a "Rebuild Budget"; Simon Bridges says it is a "Tax and spend, borrow and hope" Budget. But both would they say that, would they not? More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Privacy Act 25 Years On
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 8:55 am | Peter Dunne
Twenty-seven years ago I introduced to Parliament what was then - and probably still is - the largest ever Private Member's Bill - the Information Privacy Bill. It drew heavily on work I had begun as Associate Minister of Justice in the previous Labour ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: National - So Betwixt and Between
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 9:01 am | Peter Dunne
The National Party has been looking increasingly awkward in recent weeks while the Labour-led Government has been rolling out major policy announcements. More >>
ANZAC Day lessons for a New Zealand/Britain FTA
Thursday, 26 April 2018, 9:22 am | Peter Dunne
In the wake of another ANZAC Day and the rekindling of national spirit it always engenders, it is timely to consider our current relationships with those whom we have joined historically in the struggle for what we now routinely describe as the ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: What to do about road safety
Friday, 6 April 2018, 9:00 am | Peter Dunne
The Government's new plans to improve road safety are certainly controversial. They include a variety of measures from greater emphasis on public transport, to lowering speed limits and increasing fuel excise taxes to pay for it all. More >>
Dunne Speaks: Phew, the Russians are not coming
Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 9:06 am | Peter Dunne
Are we seeing a subtle act of international defiance from the New Zealand Government, or just another example of its naiveté? According to the Prime Minister, there are no Russian spies operating in New Zealand at present, so therefore there is no need ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The uneasy inevitability of what happens next
Thursday, 22 March 2018, 8:44 am | Peter Dunne
One could be forgiven for thinking there is nothing new in politics, that it is all about the redevelopment of old ideas, or the modernisation of old situations, and that the challenge is more one of how these situations are addressed for a new generation ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Labour's Summer Camp Goings-on
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 9:09 am | Peter Dunne
It is funny how it is often unexpected things that trip us up. Prime Minister Adern will surely be reflecting on that after the success of her Pacific Mission was pushed firmly into the background by Labour's summer camp revelations. Instead of not unreasonably ... More >>
Dunne Speaks, March 8 2018
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 9:36 am | Peter Dunne
Every year the Prime Minister leads a delegation of senior politicians from all parties and business leaders on a Pacific Islands tour. This week's Prime Ministerial visit to Samoa, Niue, Tonga and the Cook Islands is the 2018 version. Inevitably, there ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Simon Bridges' Long Game
Thursday, 1 March 2018, 8:55 am | Peter Dunne
Much of the commentary since the election of Simon Bridges as leader of the National Party has been utterly mindless. After all, it is at least two and a half years in all probability until the next election and a great deal can happen before then. ... More >>
The D5 are meeting this week - does anybody know?
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 8:33 am | Peter Dunne
This week, New Zealand is hosting one of the most important international gatherings it will have been part of for some time. No, it is not a meeting of the Five Eyes intelligence and espionage partners. Nor is it anything to do with the Trans Pacific ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: What to do with the OIA?
Thursday, 15 February 2018, 10:01 am | Peter Dunne
When it was passed in 1982, our Official Information Act was widely applauded and welcomed. It was seen as a positive step (at the height of Muldoonism) that would give the public much greater access to hitherto secret government information, thereby ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Current Tax System has had its Day
Thursday, 8 February 2018, 8:54 am | Peter Dunne
The practice of politics is often best left to politicians, just as running professions is best left to professional bodies. When one tries to meddle in the realm of the other, the result is often not what was intended. The Royal New Zealand College of ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Irony, Hypocrisy, and Good Policy
Thursday, 1 February 2018, 8:38 am | Peter Dunne
Politics often has an irony about it, and is frequently accompanied by a good dose of hypocrisy, interspersed with occasional moments of sanity and sound decisions. All these elements were on display as Parliament resumed this week. More >>
Dunne Speaks - "Politician of the Year"
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 10:05 am | Peter Dunne
In keeping with the beauty parade approach many of our commentators take to reporting politics - I could hardly say analysing, because so many of them are incapable of doing so - this is the time of the year when they accord their accolade to the "Politician ... More >>
