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Dunne's Weekly: Diversity Means Hearing Views Outside The Mainstream
Thursday, 23 February 2023, 1:19 pm | Peter Dunne
During the first Covid19 lockdown the government cleverly and skilfully used the tactic of inclusion to build support for its initiatives and marginalise its critics. Hence the frequent references to all being in this together as part of the “team ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Hipkins Goes Back To The Covid19 Playbook
Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 8:53 am | Peter Dunne
One of the lessons the government learned early in the Covid19 response was the importance of controlling the narrative. The flow of information was quickly centralised and controlled. The daily 1:00 pm media conference became institutionalised. Information, ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Hipkins' Policy Reset Was Oversold
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 9:29 am | Peter Dunne
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is aiming to pull off a change of government within a government. He hopes this will stave off any need for that to happen at this year's election. To succeed, his policy reset had to do more than just take presently unpopular ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Wellington And Auckland - A Tale Of Two Emergencies
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 9:05 am | Peter Dunne
While Auckland was being devastated by flooding last weekend, a potentially more serious threat to life was playing out off Wellington’s south coast. The interisland ferry Kaitaki had lost power and was drifting in heavy swells towards the coastline. ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Key And Ardern Broke The Mould
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 9:03 am | Peter Dunne
Jacinda Ardern and Sir John Key have set a new standard for New Zealand Prime Ministers. Too often Prime Ministers have clung to their position, often through thick and thin, until they have been either been tossed out by the electorate or dumped by their ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Unwise To Ignore The Ombudsman And The Auditor-General
Thursday, 15 December 2022, 8:52 am | Peter Dunne
The offices of the Ombudsman and the Controller and Auditor-General are two important independent statutory agencies charged with protecting aspects of the public interest against excessive or unnecessarily coercive actions by the government and its departments. ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Cabinet Reshuffles Do Not Save Sinking Ships
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 9:21 am | Peter Dunne
When Parliament rises for the year at the end of next week, MPs' attention will shift over the summer break to the election next year, and what it might mean for them personally. Some will decide the time is ripe for them to move on, as did Green ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: When Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 9:32 am | Peter Dunne
Last week, as Parliament sat under Extended Hours to pass the Committee of the Whole stage of the controversial Water Services Entities Bill, the Greens moved an amendment requiring that the support of a minimum of 60% of a future Parliament would be required ... More >>
The Supreme Court's Decision On The Voting Age Is A Godsend To Labour
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 9:06 am | Peter Dunne
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the government was delighted with this week’s ruling from the Supreme Court that excluding sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds from the right to vote was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. Not because ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: It's Déjà Vu On Resource Management
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 9:39 am | Peter Dunne
For the last thirty years the Resource Management Act (RMA) has been contentious. Introduced by Labour under Sir Geoffrey Palmer in 1989, the legislation was still making its way through Parliament when the House rose for the 1990 general election. ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: National And ACT Aiming At The Wrong Target
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 9:06 am | Peter Dunne
National’s and ACT’s attacks on the Reserve Bank and its Governor are becoming more frequent and strident. As the cost-of-living crisis bites deeper, and the Reserve Bank tightens the screws on interest rates, pushing up home mortgage rates, it becomes ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: PM Must Make Call On Her Future
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 1:05 pm | Peter Dunne
Jacinda Ardern has already been Prime Minister longer than one of her Labour heroes, Michael Joseph Savage. By year’s end she will have served longer than another of her heroes, David Lange. It is therefore not surprising that there should now be ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Will Sharma Have The Last Laugh?
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 9:48 am | Peter Dunne
There was a clear air of self-satisfied smugness within the Labour Party when Dr Gaurav Sharma was expelled from its Caucus. A stroppy young MP had been firmly dealt with and his political career destroyed because he had dared challenge the veracity ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Fixing Potholes Vs. Leading The World
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 8:35 am | Peter Dunne
September’s Ipsos poll ranked inflation, housing, healthcare, crime, and the economy as the major issues New Zealanders are currently concerned about. It also showed National rates more favourably than Labour on all of them but health. Those findings ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: We Need A Sunlight Apporach To Poltical Donations
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 8:43 am | Peter Dunne
There will be relief in certain political circles at the acquittal of former MP, Jami-Lee Ross of corruption in the political donations case. Not because of any affection or regard for Ross, but more because the stench of corruption in our political system ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Youth Crisis Looming
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 10:35 am | Peter Dunne
Now that New Zealand has started to move on from the unrelenting emphasis of the last two and a half years on dealing with the pandemic, focus is beginning to return to other important aspects of national life. We are all familiar with the mounting ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: National Leaves Uffindell The Loser
Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 9:09 am | Peter Dunne
Maria Dew KC’s inquiry into the allegations against Sam Uffindell was intended to achieve two purposes. The first was to determine the extent and accuracy of the various allegations made against the MP about bullying and related claims in his ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Could Charles III Push New Zealand To Become A Republic?
Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 8:59 am | Peter Dunne
It is hardly surprising in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II that the question of New Zealand becoming a republic should be raised. Indeed, it is inevitable that the end of the longest reign of any British Monarch ever should provoke discussion ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: National Still Missing The Mark
Wednesday, 7 September 2022, 9:55 am | Peter Dunne
The latest Roy Morgan political opinion poll mirrors other polls in showing a narrowing gap between the main blocs, with National and ACT still slightly ahead of Labour and the Greens, but with neither able to form a majority government, without the ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: It's The Putting Right That Counts
Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 9:01 am | Peter Dunne
The legendary Wellington retailer Alan Martin of the famous L.V. Martin & Son home appliance stores was renowned for his catchphrase, “It’s the putting right that counts – and if it’s not put right, ask for me, Alan Martin”. And ... More >>
