Dunne's Weekly

Purpose and focus in a government are virtues, until they are taken over by an all-compassing zeal that allows no deviation. Governments wit...

It is a time-honoured ploy for a new government to paint its predecessor as fiscally incompetent and irresponsible. This is often done to al...

New National MP James Meagher broke the long-standing convention that Maiden Speeches should be non-controversial. His speech not only raise...

Dame Jacinda Ardern observed after she stood down as Prime Minister that "Government isn’t just what you do, it's how you make peop...

The last few weeks of coalition negotiations have been reminiscent of the Mainland Cheese advertisement on television, where the cheesemaker...

Over 2,500 years ago the legendary ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu observed that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a sin...

  This coming weekend the Annual General Meeting and Conference of the United Fire Brigades Association will take place in Wellington. It wi...