Dunne's Weekly

We are pretty good in New Zealand at passing groundbreaking legislation through our Parliament and then leaving it to moulder until some g...

There used to be a school of thought on the centre right side of politics that the best way to neuter the Greens as a political force woul...

A recent prominent National politician had the so-called Serenity Prayer penned by American philospoher, Reinhold Niebuhr, "God, grant ...

In a recent column I was very critical of the performance to date of the current Speaker of the House of Representatives whom I suggested wa...

Parliament's current Speaker is turning the ancient and venerable institution on its head. Traditionally, the Speaker's role has bee...

In my Newsroom Column last week about the proposed Capital Gains Tax I wrote that "Notwithstanding her own strong feelings in favour of...

National's unsuccessful attempt to get a Parliamentary inquiry into PHARMAC is a classic case of shooting the messenger. PHARMAC is a pr...