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Dunne Speaks: Is Luxon Running Out Of Steam?
Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 9:32 am | Peter Dunne
Is Christopher Luxon's leadership of the National Party starting to run out of steam? When he took over as leader late last year National was languishing in the polls, far behind Labour. Following Luxon's accession, National quickly closed the gap with ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Who Is Going To Make The Boat Go Faster?
Wednesday, 17 August 2022, 10:21 am | Peter Dunne
When Sir Peter Blake was heading Team New Zealand’s successful 1995 and 2000 America’s Cup campaigns, he posed one constant question to the team for each aspect of their business – will it make the boat go faster? Not only did that keep Team New Zealand ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Labour Leadership Speculation Premature And Facile
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 10:32 am | Peter Dunne
Speculation that the Prime Minister’s leadership of the Labour Party may be at risk because of this week’s adverse poll results is as exaggerated as it is premature and facile. While her popularity has plummeted from the artificially stellar heights ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Aspirations Are All Very Well, But It's Getting It Right That Counts
Wednesday, 3 August 2022, 8:54 am | Peter Dunne
In a weekend television interview, the Prime Minister pushed back on a suggestion her government is far better at talking about things than achieving them. She countered that “I would not ever change the fact that we have always throughout been highly ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: "Only The Impotent Are Pure"
Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 9:10 am | Peter Dunne
The Greens’ current co-leadership wrangle reminds me of former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s famous comment “Only the impotent are pure.” Whitlam was talking to an angry State Labor Party conference in Victoria in 1967, shortly ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Time For MPs To Think For Themselves
Thursday, 21 July 2022, 10:25 am | Peter Dunne
One of the more frequently quoted statements of the Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, was his observation that “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Time For MPs To Think For Themselves
Thursday, 21 July 2022, 10:23 am | Peter Dunne
One of the more frequently quoted statements of the Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, was his observation that “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Our Winter Of Discontent
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 9:07 am | Peter Dunne
Winter is usually a time of rising national grumpiness. Cold days and nights, peppered by adverse weather events generally account for much of that. But it is normally tempered by the prospect of spring and summer, and better days to come. However, ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: "Let's Get Wellington Moving" Yeah, Right
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 9:40 am | Peter Dunne
There was great excitement in Wellington recently when the government finally announced – after much procrastination and indecision – its intentions for the ever so over-optimistically titled “Let’s Get Wellington Moving” plan. The multi-billion ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Roe V. Wade Blindsides National
Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 9:59 am | Peter Dunne
Momentum is everything in politics, but it is very fragile. There are times when unexpected actions can produce big shifts and changes in the political landscape. In 2017, for example, the Labour Party appeared headed for another hefty defeat in ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: It's All About The Volunteers
Wednesday, 22 June 2022, 9:43 am | Peter Dunne
While much of the focus this week has understandably been on our forthcoming inaugural Matariki Day, it is also National Volunteer Week. This is the time we recognise the contribution volunteers make to so many aspects of our communities. In many ways, ... More >>
Labour And National Both "Window Dressing" On Policing
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 9:07 am | Peter Dunne
National has dismissed Chris Hipkins’ appointment as Minister of Police as “window dressing for the public.” According to its Police spokesperson, Mark Mitchell, National considers Hipkins’ appointment owes more to the fact he is the government’s ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: The Days Of The Independent Republic Of PHARMAC Are Far From Over
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 9:00 am | Peter Dunne
When he announced the government’s response to the recent independent review of PHARMAC Health Minister Andrew Little boldly declared that “the days of the independent republic of PHARMAC are over.” His words were warmly welcomed by many patient advocacy ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Smugness A Risk For Luxon
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 10:05 am | Peter Dunne
Time may well prove Christopher Luxon right in his boast that National will form the next government because of Labour’s handling of the cost-of-living crisis. But it is far too premature, and borders on smugness, for him to make that claim ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Robertson's Budget Gamble On Treasury
Friday, 20 May 2022, 11:02 am | Peter Dunne
The popular test of the success or failure of Grant Robertson’s fifth Budget will be its impact on the soaring cost of living. In today’s climate little else matters. Because governments come and governments go – about every six to seven years on ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Words Matter, Prime Minister
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 9:38 am | Peter Dunne
Words matter, especially when uttered by politicians. History is littered with examples of careless or injudicious words uttered by politicians coming back to haunt them, often at the most awkward of times. During the 1987 election campaign, when electoral ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: New Zealanders' Ongoing Quest For Security
Thursday, 5 May 2022, 10:07 am | Peter Dunne
In many ways, the essential story of New Zealand over the last hundred years or so has been our search for security. Whether it be security from want, or unemployment, homelessness, or cultural alienation, it has always been a constant theme which has ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Labour Relying On More Of The Same To Beat Recession
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 10:08 am | Peter Dunne
With inflation worsening, mortgage interest rates rising, and businesses facing increasing shortages of goods and raw materials, many will be looking to next month’s Budget for relief. Economists, business commentators and non-government political ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: It's Pass The Parcel Time On Inflation
Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 10:10 am | Peter Dunne
An elaborate but ultimately irrelevant game of pass the parcel is being played out at present about who is responsible for inflation rocketing to a 30-year high, with home mortgage rates and other lending costs set to do likewise. According to the ... More >>
Dunne Speaks: Is Our Independent Foreign Policy Coming To An End?
Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 9:26 am | Peter Dunne
Recent events raise the question of whether New Zealand’s self-proclaimed independent foreign policy is slowly but surely being whittled away in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. First there was the so-called autonomous sanctions legislation ... More >>
