The Australian
Luxon never won Kiwi minds, let alone their hearts
On Saturday, New Zealanders elect a new parliament and deliver their verdict on the first term of Christopher Luxon’s government.
Christopher Luxon
Quadrant
Promises Half-Kept
In the April 2024 issue of Quadrant, I began a column with Enoch Powell’s observation that all political lives, unless cut off at a happy juncture, end in failure.
The Australian
NZ’s nuclear superstition makes no sense
At last month’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, New Zealand’s Defence Minister Chris Penk told Bloomberg Television that the country might usefully consider nuclear propulsion, the reactors that drive warships, as …
The Australian
As NZ political centre narrows, should Luxon consider grand coalition?
Ahead of New Zealand’s 2017 election, I floated the idea of a grand coalition between National and Labour in a few columns.
The Australian
Failing the politics of feels: why Luxon is tanking in NZ polls
Something peculiar is happening in New Zealand politics.
The Australian
NZ’s answer to infrastructure crisis hiding in plain sight
“We have no money, so we shall have to think.” That line is ascribed to New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford before he cracked the atom.
The Australian
‘Drowning electorally’: Christopher Luxon’s premiership under pressure
The latest New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll makes for remarkable reading.
Quadrant
Ditching the socialist housing dream
This year marks my twentieth anniversary working in think-tanks.
Quadrant
Turning New Zealand into Singapore
“New Zealand is the best country on Planet Earth,” Christopher Luxon keeps telling everyone.
The Australian
New Zealand’s ‘No’ culture threatens growth agenda
“There’s always a reason to say no, but if we keep saying no, we’ll keep going nowhere.”