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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 >>
Dunne's Weekly: The "War On Woke" Is Really Just A "War Of Words"
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 9:13 am | Peter Dunne
By claiming the “anti-woke” ground as his own, Peters has stolen an early march on his rivals and thereby probably ensured New Zealand First’s re-election. Peters has always understood better than most that politics is about the acquisition and ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: ACC Rules On Volunteers Need To Change
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 8:27 am | Peter Dunne
The only ACC Minister to show any real interest in and understanding of the issue was Matt Doocey, who was, unfortunately, reshuffled out of the portfolio earlier this year. His successors are yet to show their interest. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: School Lunches Fiasco Shows What Happens When Social Policy Loses Focus
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 11:19 am | Peter Dunne
When the current government took office in 2023 and sought to pare back government spending, the school lunch programme was an early target. The government produced a plan to centralise and standardise the school lunches operation which would save More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Five Top Resignations Just Coincidence?
Friday, 7 March 2025, 8:51 am | Peter Dunne
Sudden resignations and abrupt departures seem to be the fashion at present. First there was the chief executive of Health New Zealand who announced her resignation four months before her contract was due to expire, and left her role almost immediately. ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: The Unwelcome Case Of Peter Thiel
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 8:33 am | Peter Dunne
The Thiel case is a salutary reminder that citizenship can never be allowed to become just one more commodity to be casually traded as part of a putative investment deal. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: It's Now Lowest Common Denominator Politics Instead Of Informed Political Debate
Friday, 21 February 2025, 9:49 am | Peter Dunne
The demise of political debate as it used to be, in favour of the fervent, dogmatic statement of party opinion as incontrovertible fact as we have now, has dramatically changed the nature of political discourse around the world. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Next Election Still National's To Lose
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 9:15 am | Peter Dunne
The National-led coalition is more precariously positioned at present than each of the last two Labour-led governments were at similar stages in the previous two Parliaments. More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Corporate Tax Reduction Overdue
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 8:36 am | Peter Dunne
Only two business tax reductions in the last 36 years & the last one nearly 14 years ago, at a time of considerable change & turmoil not only shows how badly NZ has lagged other countries, especially at a time when the international movement of capital ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: ACT Looks Backwards
Friday, 31 January 2025, 10:34 am | Peter Dunne
The focus on this new entity would be on the buildings and would exclude the delivery of health and education services and staffing so as not to compromise the continued public ownership of those services. It would be solely about managing public assets ... More >>
