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Author Archives: Chris Trotter

Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New Zealand, Chris Trotter lives in Auckland with his wife and daughter. He has created the Bowalley Road blog as an outlet for his more ruminative and elegiac impulses and named it after the country road that leads to the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life.

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Posted inEconomy, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ, Politics

If RBNZ Is Going Woke, Will We Soon Be Going Broke?

by Chris Trotter 20 June, 2022 9:15 am20 June, 2022 5:34 am

Central-bank watchers from all around the world were stunned to hear Adrian Orr, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, regale his fellow state bankers with a lengthy account of how the RBNZ came to embrace Te Ao Maori.

Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics

We Are All Maori – With a Small ‘M’

by Chris Trotter 13 June, 2022 9:15 am13 June, 2022 6:16 am
Posted inFeminism, INSIGHT: Politics, Law

Casting Stones at Johnny

by Chris Trotter 6 June, 2022 9:15 am6 June, 2022 7:54 am
Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, USA Politics

Shots Heard Round The World

by Chris Trotter 30 May, 2022 9:15 am29 May, 2022 6:45 am
white and brown concrete building near body of water during daytime
Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, NZ, Politics

Viktor Orban’s Hungarian Rhapsody

by Chris Trotter 23 May, 2022 9:15 am23 May, 2022 6:17 am
Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, NZ

Running From the Battle

by Chris Trotter 16 May, 2022 9:15 am20 May, 2022 9:15 pm
Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, NZ, Politics

The Perils of an Infernal Imagination

by Chris Trotter 9 May, 2022 9:15 am20 May, 2022 9:15 pm
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Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, NZ

New Zealand’s Spiral of Decline

by Chris Trotter 2 May, 2022 9:15 am20 May, 2022 9:15 pm
Posted inINSIGHT: Politics, NZ, Politics, World

When Moscow’s Posters Stopped Arriving

by Chris Trotter 25 April, 2022 12:15 pm20 May, 2022 9:15 pm
Posted inFeatured, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ

The Facts Don’t Matter

by Chris Trotter 11 April, 2022 9:15 am11 April, 2022 8:53 am
Posted inFeatured, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ

NZ Can Have Democracy or Justice. It Can’t Have Both

by Chris Trotter 4 April, 2022 9:15 am3 April, 2022 11:20 pm
Posted inFeatured, History, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ

Why the Woke Re-Write History

by Chris Trotter 28 March, 2022 9:15 am28 March, 2022 6:34 am
Posted inEducation, Featured, History, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ

We Won. You Lost. Eat That!

by Chris Trotter 21 March, 2022 9:15 am20 March, 2022 11:24 pm
Posted inFeatured, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics

A Counterfactual History of English’s Good Government

by Chris Trotter 14 March, 2022 9:15 am14 March, 2022 5:45 am
Posted inFeatured, INSIGHT: Politics, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics

The Ring of State Power

by Chris Trotter 7 March, 2022 9:15 am7 March, 2022 8:15 am

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