Articles by Andrew Dickens
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Andrew Dickens: The Government’s new tourism campaign targeted at Australians is a no brainer
Monday, 17 February 2025, 7:31amThe Government’s new tourism campaign targeted at Australians is a no brainer. A simple test is comparing how many New Zealanders...
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Andrew Dickens: Fairness has returned to high school level sport
Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 6:16amIt only took nearly twenty years to address, but high school rowing teams will no longer be able to have year 14 students...
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Andrew Dickens: The new Minister of Transport has his head screwed on
Monday, 10 February 2025, 7:09amI’d like to applaud the outbreak of common sense exhibited by the new Minister of Transport, Chris Bishop. He has decided...
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Andrew Dickens: When you hear deficits, that means borrowing
Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:38amThe last thing I did before the Waitangi day holiday was talk to Kieran McAnulty about the financial strife surrounding Kainga...
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Andrew Dickens: My theory on why the PM is avoiding Waitangi
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 6:26amThis week it was the perennial should he or shouldn’t he go debate about the Prime Minister. Personally, I’d always go to...
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Andrew Dickens: New Zealand is desperate for growth
Monday, 3 February 2025, 7:52amThe country is desperate to go for growth. The question is: how? We got 3 points of view over the weekend - Friday it was...
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Andrew Dickens: The cautious political answer Christopher Luxon gave on privatisation
Friday, 31 January 2025, 4:51amSo the word of the week was privatisation. It became a debate because David Seymour said we should do it now in his state...
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Andrew Dickens: Why the plan for a new Waikato medical school might not work
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 5:26amIt's beggars belief these days when we report that it's hard to make money in a GP practice and that we don't have enough...
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Opinion
Andrew Dickens: Why New Zealanders love and loathe Donald Trump
Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 4:40amI’ve been watching a lot of the late night shows this week from America on YouTube. Fallon, Kimmel and Colbert, all of them...
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Andrew Dickens: We’ll never forget you 2024, but frankly we’re sick of the sight of you
Friday, 20 December 2024, 4:37amThis is my last editorial for the year. What a year it’s been, we started in January with Golriz shoplifting, we watched...
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Andrew Dickens: Why we need the fast track bill to get stuff done
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 4:41amWelcome to the fast track world, where parliamentarians have been given the right to approve projects they reckon are good...
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Andrew Dickens: Who's paying $74 a day to park in the city?
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 4:39amNews that Wilson Parking in Fort Street, Auckland, is the most expensive parking in New Zealand says a lot more than just...
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Andrew Dickens: The government has given the councils a telling off for Christmas
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 4:38amThe government is going to hold councils accountable for the basics like pipes and rubbish, but screw any mention of well...
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Andrew Dickens: The political games hiding the real issues behind the Interislander
Monday, 16 December 2024, 4:30amAnyone who thought the ferry debate was over for summer was very wrong. The weekend papers were full of reckons and I reckon...
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Andrew Dickens: The quiet war between David Seymour and Winston Peters
Friday, 13 December 2024, 4:53amDon’t you hate it when the kids fight. The quiet war between David Seymour and Winston Peters has kicked up a little lately...
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Andrew Dickens: The new ferries we know nothing about, but will be paying for
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 3:56amWell that was confusing. When Nicola Willis blew up Kiwirail’s plan for new ferries she promised a better plan, and yesterday...
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Andrew Dickens: It's time to do something about South Auckland's dirt bikes
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 5:04amThe job of being a politician is always harder than you expect. We learned today that Mark Mitchell will not be introducing...
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Andrew Dickens: The times when the media and academia are their own worst enemy
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 4:19amThis weekend Sunday Star-Times published a think piece on why Christopher Luxon is not popular. And he’s not. Monday's polls...
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Andrew Dickens: Why the problem with the Interislander isn't the boats
Monday, 9 December 2024, 6:04amCabinet today, and the promise this week is that we're going to get a ferry plan. Apparently there might be an announcement...
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Andrew Dickens: We need to learn the difference between needs and 'nice to haves'
Monday, 16 September 2024, 3:00pmSo, the Herald, in the weekend, came out and called the anti-cycle lane movement a culture war in its editorial. They pointed...
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Andrew Dickens: Why not kill the Treaty Principles Bill now?
Monday, 9 September 2024, 3:04pmSo the latest twist in the Treaty Principles debate is that the churches have come out against it. More than 400 church leaders...
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Andrew Dickens: Someone has to point out the obvious now and then
Monday, 2 September 2024, 3:32pmI was going to start my programme today with some thoughts about the energy crisis, but something else has popped up. But...
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Andrew Dickens: Reality always catches up to politics
Monday, 26 August 2024, 3:14pmDo I need to remind you that politics is show business? It's all about seeming to be the best instead of necessarily being...
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Andrew Dickens: Can we really say the rock star economy is back?
Monday, 19 August 2024, 2:52pmThe corner has been turned. The 5-year pandemic pandemonium has been tamed. Inflation is down and we've had the first interest...