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Oh dear, the leaders’ debates loom and only one Chris has anything to sell (opens the original)
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Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon will face off on television as part of the election campaign. Photo / TVNZ Oh dear. It’s that time in my three-yearly electoral cycle again. Find me a television studio. Bring on the lecterns and lights. Get me a moderator who looks as if they have been asked to supervise the kids at a North Shore barbecue after drinking a second bottle of Riesling. Let the political leaders’ debates roll. These things, which begin in earnest next week, give me a strong crampi
David Cohen: The difficult history Hipkins will need to overcome to win the election (opens the original)
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Christopher Luxon has history on his side; Chris Hipkins faces long odds. Photo / Anna Heath “In this world,” wrote Benjamin Franklin, “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” But what if old Ben got it wrong in 1789? Plenty of people manage not to pay taxes, after all, while Keith Richards remains on studio call. New Zealand politics, however, does yield quite a few near-certainties of its own – and as another election campaign looms, we can hold at least some of these truths to be self-evi
Only Peters is attuned to the public’s desire to abandon our bonkers voting rights (opens the original)
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NZ First leader Winston Peters during his speech to members and supporters. Photo / Mark Mitchell “Where are we going?” I asked my mother when I was a boy, while being ordered into my best clothes and forced to endure the indignity of a clip-on tie. My younger sister and I had been told only that we were off to an important occasion somewhere near where we lived in the Hutt Valley, and that fidgeting in the seats wouldn’t be tolerated. Only when I pestered her did she explain what it all meant.
Provocative UK journo Rod Liddle's death reminds me what NZ's political discourse lacks (opens the original)
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Mike Hosking and Rod Liddle in London in 2023. Rod Liddle, the great English columnist, never actually called New Zealand a land of jaw-dropping scenery and permanently settled opinions, but he might have done. It’s the sort of zinger the self-described equal opportunity offender specialised in. “I’m not trying to offend anyone,” he liked to say. “It just keeps happening.” Liddle, who died last week, was brilliant, offensive, occasionally lunatic and refreshingly hard to second-guess, the sort o
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