Articles by Chris Trotter
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Chris Trotter
Chris Trotter: Just Say 'Yes!'
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 11:53amThe Government's fast-track legislation is an extreme response to a besetting administrative problem. In typically colourful...
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Chris Trotter: Too Many To Die
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 11:09amThe Lakota people, better known to movie-goers as the Sioux, had a saying about their inter-tribal skirmishes. “Too few to...
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Chris Trotter: Ending the Culture War that Labour Started
Friday, 24 May 2024, 9:49amCulture wars are not meant to be won, they are meant to distract. Distract from what? Well, in the immortal words of Johnny...
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Chris Trotter: Making Our Health System Amount To A Can Of Beans
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 10:37am“The problem with health is that it is run by health.” According to Ian Powell, the former boss of the union representing...
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Chris Trotter: Willis Not About To Deliver Her Own 'Black Budget'
Thursday, 9 May 2024, 9:15amIn the end, it all comes down to taxes. This Government has promised to cut New Zealanders’ income tax, and that is precisely...
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Chris Trotter: On Watching the NYPD Enter Columbia University
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:45amIt is such a small world. There was I, seated in front of a television set in suburban Auckland, watching the NYPD clear...
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Chris Trotter: Collision Course
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 11:47amIt was the cry that rang through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) in the autumn of 1917: “All power to the soviets!”...
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Chris Trotter: Saving The World From Climate Change, One Judgement At A Time
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 11:24amNo doubt the European Court of Human Rights is congratulating itself on striking an important judicial blow against Climate...
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Chris Trotter: Making Choices
Friday, 5 April 2024, 12:27pm“It's all about choices” is how Labour deputy leader Carmel Sepuloni defines the substance of political partisanship in New...
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Chris Trotter: God’s Own Country
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 8:15amGloriavale docuseries Escaping Utopia, like Mr Bates v The Post Office, looks set to generate considerable upheaval. The...
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Chris Trotter: If Not The USA & Europe – Then Who?
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 8:54amWang Yi’s visit to New Zealand is not accidental. The Chinese Foreign Minister came here in response to New Zealand’s all-too-evident...
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Chris Trotter: Remembering The Halcyon Days of TV3 News & Current Affairs
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 6:15amFor me, it will always be “TV3”. The “Newshub” name came later, as New Zealand’s first privately-owned television network...
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Chris Trotter: Our Little Woes
Thursday, 22 February 2024, 1:53pmIt is helpful, at times, to obtain the perspective of someone from outside New Zealanders’ usual frame of reference. Events...
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Chris Trotter: Frightened of the People
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 9:42amFear of democracy is growing. Not among the overwhelming majority of voters, but among those who fear their “prejudices”....
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Chris Trotter: Challenging Democracy
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 8:21amJust imagine if Prime-Minister Christopher Luxon had been escorted onto the Waitangi Treaty Ground by an armed company of...
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Chris Trotter: James Shaw Departs, and the Greens Are Diminished.
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 12:12pmThe Greens of the early 2000s made almost a fetish out of not joining in the general nastiness of the House. The party led...
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Chris Trotter: Compromising On The Treaty
Thursday, 25 January 2024, 8:40am"While the Māori King's hui was a strategic success,” opines angry left-wing blogger Martyn Bradbury, “it was a tactical...
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Chris Trotter: Silence is Golden
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:25amPerhaps the current cacophony of voices castigating New Zealand’s foreign policy is simply attributable to the aggravations...
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Chris Trotter: Welcoming The Liberators
Monday, 1 January 2024, 10:00amNational, Act and NZ First have a problem. Like the American and British armoured columns rolling across the French countryside...
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Chris Trotter: Time To Take The Treaty Seriously, Mr Luxon
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 12:43pmWhen Christopher Luxon was selling soap powder for Unilever in Canada, that country’s indigenous people were calling for...
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Chris Trotter: The Dangers of Equity
Thursday, 30 November 2023, 10:26amWith the swearing-in of the most right-wing government in half a century, New Zealand’s capitalists should be asking questions...
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Chris Trotter: Stopping the D&I revolution
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 10:29amAre they going to stop? This is the question being asked by the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders whose votes drove...
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Chris Trotter: ’Twere Well It Were Done Quickly.
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 3:07pmWatching the Three Amigos attempting to pull together a coherent government certainly has its funny side. The mad dash for...
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Chris Trotter: From Tragedy to Farce
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 11:18amAnd so it begins, the slow reassertion of the rank-and-file over Labour’s failed parliamentarians. There’s an inevitability...
