Articles by Chris Trotter
Chris Trotter is a political commentator. He was the founding editor of the New Zealand Political Review, and is the author of No Left Turn: The Distortion of New Zealand’s History by Greed, Bigotry and Right-wing Politics.
Labour Must Uphold the Rule of Law
Opinion • Community Newsfeed • 27 Aug 2021
by Chris Trotter
When Daily Blog editor, Martyn Bradbury, says Labour’s lucky the country’s currently distracted by the Covid-19 Delta Variant, he’s right. Were New Zealand safe and out of Lockdown, it would be in the midst of a dangerously divisive row about Oranga Tamariki, the Judiciary, Race, and the Rule of Law. Given that the matters at the heart of this controversy are sub judice (i.e.…
Will Labour Defuse the He Puapua Time-Bomb?
Opinion • Community Newsfeed • 17 May 2021
by Chris Trotter
The number of people outside keeps growing. Where there had once been a harmless handful, there is now a good-sized crowd. And they keep coming. More and more of them. You can hear car doors slamming, footsteps, the soft murmur of exchanged greetings. These people can’t quite believe what they’ve been told, so they’ve come to see for themselves if the story is true. It was…