Dr Michael Bassett

Dr Michael Bassett

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Columns

28/12/21 Preparing for Omicron?
12/12/21 Another Maori Power Grab
27/11/21 Political Coups
07/11/21 Racially Charged Health Care
24/10/21 Dealing with the Backsliders
12/10/21 Jacindas's Fads and Fancies Under Scrutiny
01/10/21 Sliding in the Polls
23/09/21 Media Greedies
01/09/21 The Need for Experts with Wider Vision
16/08/21 Fortress New Zealand: An Ancient Failed Labour Vision
01/08/21 Re-Writing History: Apologies for the Dawn Raids
23/07/21 Nanaia Mahuta and the Three Waters
27/05/21 Labour's Heroic Assumptions
20/05/21 The Newshub-Reid poll
03/05/21 National, Labour and He Puapua
26/04/21 Little's Health Reforms
07/04/21 Education and New Zealand's Future
02/04/21 Auckand's Light Rail
20/03/21 Auckland's Transport Woes
07/03/21 Free Speech and the New Zealand Herald
02/03/21 Jacinda's Luck running out?
04/02/21 Labour's History Curriculum
31/01/21 Myth-Making and Politics
24/01/21 Grainne Moss and Oranga Tamariki
20/01/21 Dealing with Vodafone
18/01/21 New Zealanders' Modern Cultural Cringe
21/12/20 Teaching history about early New Zealand
14/12/20 Ihumatao: dangers for us all
02/02/18 Susan St John's Welfare Blanket
10/06/16 Labour and the Greens
24/10/14 We Had an Election, Remember
11/10/14 Bill English, Local Authorities and Poverty
16/09/14 What a Farce!
15/09/14 Radio New Zealand Partially Redeems Itself
14/09/14 The Publicly owned Media Yet Again
01/09/14 Radio New Zealand
31/08/14 Our Rancid Media Again
24/08/14 Our Media Goes Troppo
13/08/14 NICKY HAGER YET AGAIN
20/02/13 The Stop-It Industry
07/03/11 The Myths about Privatisation
09/02/11 Len Brown and Maori
08/02/11 For Lovers of the Politically Correct....
27/12/10 Lindsay Mitchell on welfare reform
19/10/10 Warren Flaunty and his local boards
14/08/10 Sir Ronald Trotter
08/08/10 Hone Harawira's rant on Racial Marriage
04/04/10 Theresa Gattung and Telecom
29/03/10 Lindsay Mitchell on bleeding heart, Tapu Misa
09/03/10 The Herald does it AGAIN
05/03/10 Lindsay Mitchell on Welfare reform
03/03/10 The Herald and Constitutional Propriety
17/02/10 The Government and Non-governmental agencies
12/02/10 Roger Kerr on youth unemployment
23/09/09 The Ups and Downs of Local Government Reform
17/09/09 Being a Liberal in New Zealand Politics
05/09/09 Dedicated Maori Seats in Auckland?
16/04/09 Reactions to the Plan for Auckland
15/04/09 The Left's Dirty Tricks
01/04/09 The Report of the Auckland Royal Commission
13/03/09 What to do with the Royal Commission's Report?
12/03/09 The Collapse of the New Zealand Herald
11/03/09 Wall Street Journal on John Key
12/12/08 The New Political Dispensation
15/11/08 Helen Clark's Years (New Zealand Herald)
14/11/08 Clark's Career and Achievements (National Business Review)
28/10/08 Strategic Voting
24/09/08 Winston and the Privileges Committee
22/08/08 The Election Issues
06/08/08 TV3 and the Snooper Scoopers
28/07/08 Buying Political Influence?
18/07/08 The Food Police and Fruit Kebabs
17/07/08 Journalists and Campaigning
08/07/08 Labour Faces its Demons
04/07/08 The Great Train Folly
21/04/08 Failure of the Waitangi Industry
21/04/08 Reforming Auckland Local Government
05/03/08 Auckland's Airport: "whatever it takes" to win
22/02/08 The 2008 Election Prospects
16/12/07 Keith Holyoake
05/12/07 Roger Douglas's 70th birthday
26/11/07 Announcement
09/10/07 Election Spending
25/09/07 Glad-handing and Time-wasting
15/09/07 Reflections on Helen Clark (PRESS Mainlander)
11/09/07 Time for Road Pricing
28/08/07 Personal Attacks
14/08/07 Parity with Australian Pay
31/07/07 Political Paralysis: France and New Zealand
19/06/07 Robert Muldoon is Back
05/06/07 Polls, Damned Polls
22/05/07 The Strange Death of the New Zealand Economy
08/05/07 Reserve Bank Inquiry
24/04/07 Health Union Extremism
10/04/07 Daylight Saving
27/03/07 The Really Big Issue
13/03/07 The Anti-Police Hysteria
27/02/07 Slowing Down Justice
13/02/07 Political Soft Options
30/01/07 An End to Treaty Historical Claims
16/01/07 Learning from History
19/12/06 Problems of Opposition since 2001
13/12/06 TIM PANKHURST Dominion Post
05/12/06 Nicky Hager and the Hollow Book
21/11/06 Greeks Bearing Gifts
07/11/06 Poor Policing in Auckland
24/10/06 Careless decisions on Auckland's Waterfront
10/10/06 The PC Clobbering Machine
26/09/06 Toxic Politics
12/09/06 Auckland's Robbers' Convention (NZ Herald)
12/09/06 Labour's Political Scandals
29/08/06 Corruption and Party Funding
14/08/06 War in the Middle East
01/08/06 New Zealand's Future?
20/06/06 Our Infrastructural Needs
20/06/06 Leave
06/06/06 Diverting the Public's Attention
23/05/06 New Zealand and Australia
09/05/06 The Maori Seats
11/04/06 Dogs and Priorities
28/03/06 Parliament's Size
14/03/06 Crime and Police priorities
28/02/06 Family Planning and Poverty
14/02/06 The Cartoon Furore
31/01/06 Greater Financial Understanding
03/01/06 Encouraging Economic Literacy
20/12/05 Immigration and Adaptation
06/12/05 Problems with Psychiatric Care
22/11/05 Maternity Services Gone Wrong
08/11/05 Political Correctness
25/10/05 MMP and the 2005 Outcome
11/10/05 A New Cabinet?
27/09/05 Social Divisions
19/09/05 Election Aftermath
13/09/05 Election Dirty Tricks
30/08/05 Election bribery
16/08/05 Reflections on New Zealand
15/08/05 David Lange: An Assessment by a Colleague
07/06/05 Facing the Electricity Future
07/06/05 ON LEAVE
24/05/05 David Benson-Pope
10/05/05 Three in a row for Blair
26/04/05 Press Accuracy
12/04/05 Hawkins and the Police
29/03/05 Lunacy Sightings
15/03/05 National's Predicament
01/03/05 Making Quality Decisions
15/02/05 Aid to Africa
01/02/05 Orewa Mark II
18/01/05 Asian Tsunami
04/01/05 Sir Apirana Ngata
21/12/04 Auckland Airport
07/12/04 Security and the SIS
23/11/04 New Auckland City Council
09/11/04 US Elections
26/10/04 Labour & Local Government
12/10/04 Pitcairn and Isolation
28/09/04 Auckland Mayoralty Race
14/09/04 Tauranga Waitangi Tribunal Claim
31/08/04 New Zealand and Australia
17/08/04 The Blame Culture
03/08/04 Journalists and Tony Blair
22/06/04 Twenty Year Celebration
08/06/04 Great Expectations
25/05/04 The Laager Mentality
11/05/04 Current Difficulties
27/04/04 The Courts
13/04/04 Michael King
30/03/04 Careless Spending
16/03/04 Treaty inquiries
02/03/04 Going Downhill
02/02/04 Norman Kirk and New Zealand Day
20/01/04 Doctor numbers
06/01/04 Christmas Cards
23/12/03 Foreshore and Seabed
09/12/03 Leadership
25/11/03 Legal Aid
11/11/03 CYF and the Government
28/10/03 National Leadership
14/10/03 United States - New Zealand
30/09/03 Child Poverty
16/09/03 The Courts
02/09/03 Racial Distinctions
19/08/03 ARC Rates and the Herald
05/08/03 Maurice Williamson
24/06/03 Maori definitions
10/06/03 Police Priorities
27/05/03 Waitangi Tribunal Troubles
13/05/03 Maori Seats
29/04/03 Child Obesity
15/04/03 Victory in Iraq
01/04/03 The War
18/03/03 New Zealand and the UN
06/03/03 Big Spending
18/02/03 Rural Health
04/02/03 Sir John Turei
21/01/03 Summer Journalism
07/01/03 Future Prospects
24/12/02 Local Government
10/12/02 Reflections on the US
26/11/02 Election aftermath
12/11/02 US mid-term elections
29/10/02 The Washington Sniper
15/10/02 The Democrats
01/10/02 American Elections
17/09/02 The American mood
03/09/02 Unions
20/08/02 The media
06/08/02 Immigration
29/07/02 Whatever Happened To National?
09/07/02 Inflation
26/06/02 MMP
12/06/02 Apologies
29/05/02 Dirty tricks?
15/05/02 Health
04/05/02 Don Brash
01/05/02 Welfare
17/04/02 National's Predicament
03/04/02 Self Help
20/03/02 John Banks
06/03/02 Health is a Killer
23/02/02 Jim Anderton
20/02/02 Luck
06/02/02 Treaty of Waitangi
23/01/02 GE
09/01/02 Floating dollar
26/12/01 Health Care
12/12/01 Margaret Wilson

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