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Search for MH370 an International Dance of the Seven Veils
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 8:53 am | Peter Dunne
Every country now seems to have known something – more than it was prepared to let be known originally – that it now seems keen to suggest was the real turning point in the hunt for Flight MH370. More >>
Dunne Speaks
Thursday, 20 March 2014, 9:30 am | Peter Dunne
The circus has come to town. At least, you could be forgiven for thinking so following the announcement of the election date, and the mindless braying of vacuous, discredited performers putting on their stale make up yet one more sad time to rant about who ... More >>
Dunne Speaks
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 9:01 am | Peter Dunne
6 March 2014 Every now and then, and usually in hushed tones, the question is asked about how affordable our public health system will be in the future. Especially so as the baby boomers age, and demand more care, and the level of medical knowledge ... More >>
Dunne Speaks - 27 February 2014
Thursday, 27 February 2014, 3:14 pm | Peter Dunne
The tactic is not new. It is as old as humanity, and has been tried many times before, sometimes with monstrous and chilling effect. More >>
Dunne Speaks
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 9:19 am | Peter Dunne
For the uninitiated, and Americans, cricket is one of the great unexplained mysteries of our time. More >>
Dunne Speaks: 5 February 2014
Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 1:31 pm | Peter Dunne
A sunny day in Wellington and the line-up of floats for the annual parade marking the start of the madcap Wellington Sevens event is a great reminder of all that is good in our country, and a welcome relief to many of the daily pressures we face. More >>
Dunne Speaks: 29 January 2014
Wednesday, 29 January 2014, 11:22 am | Peter Dunne
The political debate about support for families that has erupted this week has highlighted once more that governments are generally not very organised when it comes to social policies. More >>
Dunne Speaks
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 10:48 am | Peter Dunne
Happy New Year! After the bumbling comedy show of political wannabes strutting their stuff over the holiday period the serious business of government is underway once again. More >>
Dunne Speaks - My final blog for 2013
Thursday, 19 December 2013, 9:27 am | Peter Dunne
2013 is close to being just a memory. As usual, the end of year reviews are being written, and the lessons, if any, for the future noted. For me, the most significant feature of the year has received scant attention, which makes it also the most disturbing. More >>
Dunne Speaks
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 7:51 pm | Peter Dunne
Convenient political amnesia is capturing all the attention at the moment, in the main because our Prime Minister cannot remember where he stood on the 1981 Springbok Tour. More >>
Dunne Speaks - 5 December 2013
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 9:02 am | Peter Dunne
This week’s row about the PISA report on educational attainment levels is a good case in point. In essence, it showed that rates of achievement amongst New Zealand school students have not improved in recent years, and in relative terms have actually ... More >>
Dunne Speaks
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 11:10 am | Peter Dunne
Amidst the frenzied debate about the suitability or otherwise of the untested, yet to be elected, Conservatives as a viable post-election support partner for National, one point seems to have been overlooked. More >>
Dunne Speaks - 14 November 2013
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 10:18 am | Peter Dunne
This weekend’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka seems set to be dominated by the furore surrounding human rights abuses in that country. More >>
Dunne Speaks - Historical Rape Charges
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 10:01 am | Peter Dunne
Karl Marx once said famously that the thing to learn from history is that people do not. More >>
Dunne Speaks For This Week
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 10:34 am | Peter Dunne
A sure sign of looming danger is when a politician opines the eerie words, “I’ve been thinking.” It is usually a warning some new crackpot idea is about to be unleashed, or hobby horse indulged. In fact, politicians’ “thinking” lies at the heart ... More >>
Greenpeace Warning “Sobering And Timely”
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 11:38 am | Peter Dunne
Greenpeace’s warning of the potential risks to the New Zealand coastline and surrounding oceans from a deep sea oil spill is both “sobering and timely”, according to UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne. “Deep sea oil exploration is inherently risky ... More >>
Dunne Speaks
Thursday, 10 October 2013, 10:08 am | Peter Dunne
The greatest football game in town kicked off again this week – and I am not referring to the epic All Blacks/Springboks test at Ellis Park last weekend. More >>
Dunne Speaks: 18 September 2013
Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 2:39 pm | Peter Dunne
The visit to parliament this week by Dunedin leaders to push for the retention of the Invermay agricultural research centre in Otago raises the wider issue of what is now referred to as localism in some quarters. More >>
Peter Dunne on Syria
Friday, 30 August 2013, 10:16 am | Peter Dunne
Syria is the world’s current international pariah. And the drums of war are beating once more. The apparently regime sanctioned poison gas attacks on Syrian citizens are despicable, callous and indefensible. More >>
