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At a crossroads, Max Harris
Unquiet Time: Aotearoa/New Zealand in a Fast-changing World Colin James Fraser Books, $39.50, ISBN 9780994136015 Last year, Colin James published his final weekly column with the Otago Daily Times, after over 50 years of work as a journalist. In a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Colin James, Fraser Books, Issue 121, Max Harris
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Yes, Minister, Bob Gregory
The Tie That Binds: The Relationship Between Ministers and Chief Executives Colin James Institute of Policy Studies and the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, $25.00, ISBN 0908935676 Public service reform was not a major election…
Tagged with: Bob Gregory, Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 70, New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Winter 2005
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The House that we built, Colin James
The House: New Zealand’s House of Representatives 1854-2004 John E Martin Dunmore Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864694636 Parliament is a brutal place. Only the idealistic, the ideological, the hard-nosed and the ruthless gather there. No person is inviolate, no secret safe,…
Tagged with: Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 66, John E Martin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Steady as she goes, Colin James
Holyoake’s Lieutenants ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 8864694369 I came across Norm Shelton a day or two after Jack Marshall sacked him in February 1972 at the end of the Holyoake era. He had a pile of complimentary…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 61, Keith Holyoake, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Independence and after, Colin James
“Nothing is more important to a country,” one-time Australian Treasurer and Prime Minister Paul Keating told the Knowledge Wave conference in August, “than the way it thinks about itself.” Right now, this country, barely a nation, thinks it is small,…
The federation game, Colin James
Waltzing with Matilda: Should New Zealand join Australia? Bob Catley Dark Horse Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0958214611 A chilling graph presented to Auckland business leaders on 14 May undermines Bob Catley’s thesis. Auckland, the graph showed, lost 3.4% in GDP per…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Bob Catley, Colin James, Dark Horse Publishing, Issue 49
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Roads to nowhere? Ruth Butterworth
Building the Constitution ed Colin James Institute of Policy Studies, $45, ISBN 090893548X Some time in 1997, with the prolonged aftermath of the first MMP election still agitating the establishment and mightily diverting the rest of us, the idea gained…
Tagged with: Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 48, June 2001, Ruth Butterworth
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
From visionaries to pygmies, Colin James
Politics and economics Coming into the 20th century, the battle for the future was between socialists and triumphalist trumpeters of a “bigger and better Britain” here at the end of the world. The route out is likely to be along…
Huck Finn in the Beehive, Colin James
The Demon Profession Michael Laws HarperCollins, $29.95 ISBN 1 869502 57 4 Winston Peters emerged from obscurity in the 1980s on the strength of attacks on Maori social services organisations like Maccess. His surge in 1996 was on the backs…
Tagged with: Colin James, HarperCollins, Issue 36, Michael Laws
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law
Bovver boys
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