Will The New Zealand Election Outcome Mean A Fair Go For Russia?
[Author’s Note: this piece was originally prepared for an international audience; and is presented unaltered from its original form] Late…
Author: Curwen Rolinson
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The Golden Path Mk.II: NZ First’s Quantum Superposition Of Solitude
Many moons ago – back when the notion of replacing Andrew Little with Jacinda Ardern was the sort of pie-in-the-sky idea dismissed by almost all serious commentators as almost assuredly fatal to both her party and her person, rather than some form of titanic/cthonic masterstroke capable of apparently singlehandedly reshaping the political landscape upon a whim – I sat down to pen a piece entitled “The Golden Path”.
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Does Labour’s Man In The Wairarapa Have A Gaping Gulf Betwixt Rhetoric And Reality?
Earlier in the week, Wairarapa Labour candidate Kieran McAnulty made some pretty stirling remarks about the problems of social housing…
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A “Rumour” For Ron Shows The Race Is On In The Wairarapa
I got a lead on a major party poll that had just been done in the Wairarapa, and which basically confirmed what I’d been saying. It ranked the contenders for the seat both in terms of their support out there in the electorate (i.e. how many folk were likely to vote for them) – but also in terms of their ‘likeability’, relatability, recognizability and such.
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WTF – [W]inston’s Pension; [T]he #MotherOfAllScandals; and [F]ilthy Politics in 2017
Look “behind the curtain”, if you will.
The timing of events is, in politics, almost never coincidental.
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Purple Rain Man: The Brief History Of Thirty Three Years Of Peter Dunne In Parliament
I remember once upon a time remarking that Peter Dunne’s occupancy of the Ohariu seat was one of the great…
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Why I’m Not Celebrating Steve Bannon’s Ouster From The White House
At the time of writing, it’s been perhaps sixteen hours since news of Steve Bannon’s resignation broke. And dependent upon…
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National’s (“New”) Boot Camps Policy – HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER? Or Will That Just Be The Criminals
It has been said by a mind far wittier than myself that whilst history doesn’t repeat … it sure does…
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Jacinda Effect > Metiria Affect – Why The Greens’ Polls Are Down
In the coming days, as the vultures of various news outlets attempt to pick clean the carcass of a once-indomitable…
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THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES – What Ardern/Davis Means For NZF & MANA
By the end of this week, a quantity of ink fit to fill Lake Rotoiti – and sufficient electrons to power Tiwai Point for about the space of half an hour – will no doubt have been marshalled in service of commentating upon what Jacinda Ardern’s ‘shock’ elevation to the leadership of Labour means for that party. And, for that matter, the prospects of actually securing ‘progressive’ governance in 2017.