Dunne's Weekly

31 March 2016 I have had one or two fractious media interviews of late on aspects of New Zealand’s drug policy. I am not especially p...

23 March 2016 Congratulations to Dame Patsy Reddy on her appointment as New Zealand’s next Governor-General. She is another outstandi...

17 March 2016 In recent days, I have been thinking of Pete Seeger’s plaintive line, “When will they ever learn?” from his classic anti-...

10 March 2016 The long awaited report of the first ever full and independent review of our security services has just come out. But d...

3 March 2016 Student loan debt has just hit $15 billion and is likely to increase further. Despite various efforts by successive gove...

25 February 2016 Two reports caught my eye this week. First was the Amnesty International Report on Human Rights in New Zealand, and ...

18 February 2016 One of the more pointless but recurring debates, no matter which government is in office, relates to the level of sp...