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The shady adventures of Fiscal Hole

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All last week, the trailer for a Fair Go television episode asked, incredulously, how someone could just lose a million dollars.  Three days later, I’m...

Heroes and hucksters

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Tuesday’s party political commentary on the front page of the New Zealand Herald as a national daily in the middle of a national human...

Gabrielle – one cyclone to terrify us all

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Twelve hours into Sunday’s pre-storm power cut and with an ex-tropical cyclone hurtling down upon us, I finally took down the gleaming brass hurricane...

Hotter, sooner, more extreme

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In a fairly news-packed week – redolent as it’s been with tragedy, fear and accumulated doom that’s discombobulating a great many of us –...

The frumious beast

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My first reaction to last Thursday’s news that prime minister Jacinda Ardern had resigned was a visceral sense of relief that a vicious war...

Tumultuous year

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As we have been reviewing the past, truly extraordinary year in an increasingly bifurcated world, the size of the juggernaut coming down on us...

Hopeful history for Christmas

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We are coming to the end of a particularly dismaying year. Does it matter that last weekend, Christopher Luxon was nominated politician of the...

Courage is contagious

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So many people in the public life of the planet appear decidedly dull and disappointing, if not downright rogues and liars. Decency, if it’s present,...

Culture of nastiness

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I’ve been pretty concerned about my profession at this tenuous time in New Zealand history. Mainly because our daily news is so overlaid by...

When will we ever learn?

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If I inventory the things I do with an admittedly small amount of discretionary personal time, I find it’s usually taken up with reading...