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Dunne Speaks: National and Labour trapped by their past
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 9:46 am | Peter Dunne
New Zealand’s more than half-century of muddle on housing policy is finally catching up with us. Since the 1950s, successive governments have viewed housing through a very basic lens: maintaining a supply of public housing stock to meet the needs of ... More >>
Dunne Speaks, May 12 2016
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 10:17 am | Peter Dunne
The revelations from the Panama Papers have dominated the news this week. As a result, the foreign trust tax regime has been placed under intense scrutiny, and while no king-hits have yet occurred in respect of New Zealand, it is a virtual certainty ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: UNGASS 2016
Friday, 22 April 2016, 9:25 am | Peter Dunne
This week I have been attending the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS), the first such meeting since 1998, and the first major international review of drug policy since 1998. More >>
Dunne Speaks: An Extraordinary Year
Thursday, 7 April 2016, 9:34 am | Peter Dunne
1978 was a most extraordinary year. It was the year when in just over a month there were three Popes. Also, it was the year the racist white regime in Rhodesia finally agreed to African majority rule in the new nation of Zimbabwe. Jim Jones gave new ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - The furore over drug policy
Thursday, 31 March 2016, 9:00 am | Peter Dunne
I have had one or two fractious media interviews of late on aspects of New Zealand’s drug policy. I am not especially proud of that, because my normal demeanour is much more considered and self-disciplined. My plea in mitigation is that my contrariness ... More >>
Has the Last Governor-General Just Been Appointed?
Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 9:15 am | Peter Dunne
23 March 2016 Congratulations to Dame Patsy Reddy on her appointment as New Zealand’s next Governor-General. She is another outstanding selection in that now long line of impressive New Zealanders to hold the office, and I have no doubt she will do ... More >>
Dunne Speaks 10 March 2016
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 3:33 pm | Peter Dunne
The long awaited report of the first ever full and independent review of our security services has just come out. But despite the prudent calls last week from the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Judge Cheryl Gwyn, for as much openness and transparency ... More >>
The Student Loan Debt Monster Rampages On
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 9:24 am | Peter Dunne
3 March 2016 Student loan debt has just hit $15 billion and is likely to increase further. Despite various efforts by successive government over the years to curb debt levels, and significant progress along the way in tracking down recalcitrant ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - spending on the public health system
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 9:04 am | Peter Dunne
One of the more pointless but recurring debates, no matter which government is in office, relates to the level of spending on the public health system. More >>
Dunne Speaks - I agree with Labour on the TPP
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 9:15 am | Peter Dunne
I agree with the Labour Party on the TPP. Well, some of what it is saying anyway. Actually, to be more accurate, some of what Andrew Little is saying, because everyone else in his Caucus seems to be trying to cover all sides of the argument, all of ... More >>
Dunne to UK for Digital Leaders Network Annual Lecture
Monday, 1 February 2016, 11:27 am | Peter Dunne
Dunne to UK for Digital Leaders Network Annual Lecture Internal Affairs Minister Peter Dunne travels to London today to present the Digital Leaders Network 2016 Annual Lecture. This is a ministerial hosted event that takes place in Westminster, with ... More >>
The farce of state of the nation addresses
Thursday, 28 January 2016, 10:07 am | Peter Dunne
There used to be a State opening of Parliament every year, complete with a Speech from the Throne setting out the government’s agenda. That was followed by a full Address-in-Reply Debate, where most MPs spoke, on what was said or not said, as the ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Jihad Brides??
Thursday, 10 December 2015, 9:55 am | Peter Dunne
So, according to the Security Intelligence Service, increasing numbers of young New Zealand women are off to Syria to become what have been called “jihadi brides.” Well, actually, there are not that many. Of the thousands of foreign fighters in ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - Time to end Japanese Whaling
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 9:10 am | Peter Dunne
3 December 2015 The announcement that Japan intends to resume scientific whaling, as it prefers to call blatant slaughter, in the Southern Ocean this season received surprisingly scant attention last week. There were the ritualistic expressions of ... More >>
Labour's 80th Anniversary of first becoming Government
Thursday, 26 November 2015, 8:51 am | Peter Dunne
26 November 2015 Later this week I will join current and former Labour MPs to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the election of one of New Zealand’s most reforming and innovative governments – the first Labour Government under Michael Joseph Savage. ... More >>
From Tallin to Wellington- Digital Governance
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 1:42 pm | Peter Dunne
In the wake of last weekend's horrific terrorist attacks in Paris many are asking fresh questions about what new steps can be taken to curb outrages committed by Daesh extremists and their like. Western intelligence agencies have already warned these ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - Toys out of the cot on the RMA?
Thursday, 5 November 2015, 9:22 am | Peter Dunne
5 November 2015 National’s plans to ask the Productivity Commission to take a “blue skies” look at rules and legislation that may impede housing development are at one level logical and unobjectionable. But – and this is a very big but ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Westpac's strike against personal privacy
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 9:33 am | Peter Dunne
29 October 2015 The uproar Westpac Bank has understandably caused by releasing personal details regarding Nicky Hager to the Police highlights once more the fragility of public protections in the age of increasing datafication. No matter how it is explained, ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - Why I vote the way I do
Thursday, 22 October 2015, 2:30 pm | Peter Dunne
Last week I voted for two Labour Members’ Bills and against one Government Bill. Both the Labour Bills and the Government Bill proceeded, and the sun still rose the following morning. But to hear some people, you would have thought the end of the ... More >>
Taking Emotion out of the Medicinal Cannabis Debate
Thursday, 15 October 2015, 8:59 am | Peter Dunne
The developing campaign around medicinal cannabis has eerie overtones of last year’s row about psychoactive substances, where reason and logic quickly gave way to lowest common denominator decision-making, equivalent to mob rule. More >>
