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Dunne's Weekly: The Arrogance Of Government
Friday, 19 September 2025, 8:19 am | Peter Dunne
In today's opinion piece, Dunne cites three examples: the Prime Minister's handling of the Palestinian state announcement, the Finance Minister's remarks to protestors, and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour's comments to an actress. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: The Children Must Come First
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 9:49 am | Peter Dunne
For every parent, properly looking after their children must be paramount – ranking well ahead of seeking to satisfy residual bitterness towards a former partner, or taking out frustration against state agencies for perceived inflexible and unreasonable ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Deportations And Hypocrisy
Friday, 5 September 2025, 8:50 am | Peter Dunne
Strengthening New Zealand’s immigration laws is making it easier for the government to deport non-New Zealand criminals, which will play well as part of the government’s tough law and order agenda. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Time For A Public Service Shake-Up?
Thursday, 28 August 2025, 11:12 am | Peter Dunne
Abolishing small Ministries cannot mean that the roles they have performed over the years are similarly abolished or downgraded. The focus needs to be on the relevance of form, not function. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Politicians Are Not Diplomats
Friday, 22 August 2025, 8:19 am | Peter Dunne
Peter Dunne shared his views on political appointments to diplomatic posts, citing recent examples of former politicians: Goff and Mallard in these roles. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: New Zealand First Could Decide Next Election Outcome
Thursday, 14 August 2025, 8:53 am | Peter Dunne
The Taxpayers Union/Curia poll released in the morning projected a hung Parliament, with neither the centre-right nor the centre-left blocs able to claim a majority. That prospect excited much idle speculation for most of the day about what that eventuality ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Labour's Tax Merry-Go-Round Starts Again
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 8:37 am | Peter Dunne
Labour ought to be taking the opportunity to promote constructive reforms about tax enforcement, collection and compliance to boost fairness and equity, rather than continuing to flog the capital gains tax dead horse. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Oppositions Seldom Win, But Governments Often Lose
Friday, 1 August 2025, 8:17 am | Peter Dunne
Things are not quite as challenging for Labour, however. Because it is in its first term in Opposition and because one-term governments are a rarity – only two (both Labour) in the last century – while there may be increasing hope, there is not ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: A Tale Of Two Ferries
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:15 am | Peter Dunne
Bluebridge and the Interislander have an almost equal share of the Cook Strait passenger and vehicle traffic. Together, they are a vital transport link between the North and South Islands. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Little Needs To Up His Game, Otherwise Wellington's Council Circus Will Continue
Thursday, 17 July 2025, 8:21 am | Peter Dunne
With Chung ‘s self-inflicted implosion, and the lack of any other credible mayoral candidate, the focus is now more strongly than ever on Little. With just over twelve weeks until the local body elections, there is still plenty of time for Little to ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Ardern Must Front-Up At Covid19 Inquiry
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 8:01 am | Peter Dunne
According to the Commission chair, Grant Illingworth KC, the focus of this aspect of the inquiry is to hear from the public about their experiences, including the impacts on "social division and isolation, health and education, and business activity. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: When Symbolism Trumps Substance
Friday, 4 July 2025, 8:52 am | Peter Dunne
New Zealand First are not the only party playing the symbolism over substance card. Earlier this week National announced plans for an instant fines approach to dealing with shoplifters. The rhetoric was strong, but the details and the timing remain ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: National's Looming Revenge On Regional Councils
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 8:31 am | Peter Dunne
National is looking to dump the Resource Management Act altogether and to replace it with a more streamlined, centrally based standards-driven approach to reduce the number of individual resource consents required. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Health Districts' Performance Figures Tell Interesting Story
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 8:55 am | Peter Dunne
West Coast, Tairawhiti, South Canterbury and Lakes are doing best in terms of shorter stays for patients in emergency departments, with West Coast having already met the 2030 target. By contrast, Auckland, Waikato and Capital and Coast languish near the ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: A Government Backbencher's Lot Not Always A Happy One
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 11:37 am | Peter Dunne
Over the next few weeks, it will be the government backbench “lobby fodder” that will have to do the lion’s share of facing up and responding to the anger of those adversely affected by this legislation. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: It's An Election, Not A Coronation
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 8:30 am | Peter Dunne
As a seasoned politician, Little will understand full well that while his political record will attract scrutiny during the forthcoming Mayoral campaign, his election will depend more on the policy programme he puts forward, and whether that resonates ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: An Issue No-One Can Afford To Lose
Friday, 25 April 2025, 8:54 am | Peter Dunne
For the sake of Parliament’s integrity, any penalty should be significant – it cannot look like a slap with a wet bus ticket. However it also cannot be unreasonable, which would simply inflame the current situation further & embolden TPM’s line that it is the victim of a repressive, racist system. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Trump's Tariffs Still Pose Risks For New Zealand
Friday, 18 April 2025, 9:21 am | Peter Dunne
While PHARMAC does not appear to have been raised during the recent tariff discussions, New Zealand should prepare for some sort of tariff imposition to blunt PHARMAC’s impact on the profitability of American pharmaceutical companies supplying to the ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Is Andrew Little Wellington's Mayor-In-Waiting?
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 9:59 am | Peter Dunne
Andrew Little was regarded in national politics as a reasonable, competent safe pair of hands, although sometimes his passion got the better of him, causing the National-led Government to label him "Angry Andy" after one of his not infrequent outbursts in ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: While We're Breaking Up Monoliths, What About MBIE?
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 8:06 am | Peter Dunne
To ensure New Zealand does not become a backwater for international sporting and related events, the government ought to establish a stand-alone independent specialist agency to work on both securing such events for New Zealand and the public and private ... More >>
