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Scoop
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Dr. Eric Chuah Running For Auckland Mayor
Press Release – Dr. Eric Chuah This media statement is to confirm that Dr. Eric Chuah former party strategist for United NZ Hon. Peter Dunne in the 1999 NZ Parliamentary elections where Dunne won the seat of Ohariu-Belmont in Wellington, and also electorate candidate for centrist party Rock the Vote NZ for the Auckland seat of Maungakiekie in the 2023 parliamentary elections will be running for the Auckland Mayoralty for this upcoming October 2025 Auckland Council elections. Dr. Eric Chuah joined the National Party in March 2024 after standing down from running for Tauranga Mayor so as not to take away votes for the centrist and right Tauranga Mayoral candidates. Dr. Eric Chuah will also be running for Northcote Local Board and North Shore Local Ward for Auckland Councilor Position. Dr. Eric Chuah's academic teaching and policy making experience while working as lecturer in Monash University and later University New South Wales in Australia seconded to Australian Defense Intelligence combined with his business and investment consulting experience on the ground level in New Zealand as a cafe owner, property developer, insurance broker, assistant manager for telemarketing, Telstra Territorial Manager for Karori Wellington and Asia Pacific Manager for Fire Denyers International a NZ owned fire alarm system company that won the Housing NZ award will provide and enhance the necessary strategic vision and also capacity to create Action Plans to have better delivery of local council services, minimise increase in rates unnecessarily and ensure health safety for local residents and businesses liaising with NZ Police for better policing. When you serve the local council and local government it is for all NZders, notwithstanding their political preferences be it left right or center. This is to ensure efficient facilitation and Action Plans to better public transport, better traffic flow, better waste water management services.
Scoop
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Dr. Eric Chuah Running For Auckland Mayor
This media statement is to confirm that Dr. Eric Chuah former party strategist for United NZ Hon. Peter Dunne in the 1999 NZ Parliamentary elections where Hon. Peter Dunne won the seat of Ohariu-Belmont in Wellington, and also electorate candidate for centrist party Rock the Vote NZ for the Auckland seat of Maungakiekie in the 2023 parliamentary elections will be running for the Auckland Mayoralty for this upcoming October 2025 Auckland Council elections. Dr. Eric Chuah joined the National Party in March 2024 after standing down from running for Tauranga Mayor so as not to take away votes for the centrist and right Tauranga Mayoral candidates. Dr. Eric Chuah will also be running for Northcote Local Board and North Shore Local Ward for Auckland Councilor Position. Dr. Eric Chuah's academic teaching and policy making experience while working as lecturer in Monash University and later University New South Wales in Australia seconded to Australian Defense Intelligence combined with his business and investment consulting experience on the ground level in New Zealand as a cafe owner, property developer, insurance broker, assistant manager for telemarketing, Telstra Territorial Manager for Karori Wellington and Asia Pacific Manager for Fire Denyers International a NZ owned fire alarm system company that won the Housing NZ award will provide and enhance the necessary strategic vision and also capacity to create Action Plans to have better delivery of local council services, minimise increase in rates unnecessarily and ensure health safety for local residents and businesses liaising with NZ Police for better policing. When you serve the local council and local government it is for all NZders, notwithstanding their political preferences be it left right or center. This is to ensure efficient facilitation and Action Plans to better public transport, better traffic flow, better waste water management services.
RNZ News
12-05-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Political commentators Peter Dunne and Sue Moroney
In Dunedin, more than 100 protesters have packed John Wickliffe Square, chanting "What's outrageous? Gendered wages" Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton Commentators Peter Dunne and Sue Moroney discuss the government's urgent move to reform pay equity legislation and the implications for women voters, the passing of the Regulatory Standards Bill, and the sudden elevation of the recently announced Bill to ban social media for under 16s. Peter Dunne was the leader of United Future, and is a former MP and Minister who's worked in governing arrangements with both National and Labour. Sue Moroney is a former MP with the Labour Party and now chief executive of Community Law Centres Aotearoa.
Scoop
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Dunne's Weekly: A Government Backbencher's Lot Not Always A Happy One
Opinion – Peter Dunne Over the next few weeks, it will be the government backbench lobby fodder that will have to do the lions share of facing up and responding to the anger of those adversely affected by this legislation. Being a backbench government Member of Parliament is at best a mixed blessing. On the one hand, there is the excitement of being part of the government team, able to interact with Ministers from the Prime Minister downwards about what the government is doing and generally being 'in the know'. Through Caucus committees, government backbenchers can work alongside Ministers on the development of policy ideas which may eventually come to fruition as government policy. Government backbenchers can also lobby Ministers about issues of particular importance to the electorates or districts they represent and can generally expect, for obvious political reasons, any such representations to be treated more favourably than if they were coming from an Opposition MP. Locally, they can then claim the credit for moves beneficial to their electorates or regions. But, on the other hand, the ultimate decisions still rest with Ministers and the Cabinet, meaning government backbenchers are often no more than influential supplicants. And because of collective Cabinet responsibility – the doctrine that binds all members of the Executive, including Ministers outside Cabinet and Parliamentary Under-Secretaries to support all Cabinet decisions – the Executive virtually always has the numbers to prevail in any Caucus discussion. The formation of the Budget each year, and major policy decisions are almost entirely the province of the Cabinet, with backbenchers usually informed of the details after the event. In case of the Budget, government backbenchers are normally briefed on its contents only about an hour before it is delivered in the House – about the same time as senior Opposition MPs are given an embargoed copy in a pre-Budget lock-up, and considerably later than the media whose lock-up begins hours earlier – yet they are expected to support it enthusiastically when it is debated in the House. It is often a similar process regarding controversial legislation pushed through under Urgency. In what has become the classic but no means only example, in late 1988 Labour MPs were informed at an early morning meeting of Cabinet's intention to introduce at 9:00 am that morning under Urgency a Bill to make 'some minor technical changes' to the way departmental chief executives were appointed – that Bill was the infamous State Sector Act. Almost certainly, the same process would have been followed with this week's dramatic and controversial changes to the way pay equity issues are addressed. The fact that this was an ACT-driven initiative adds a further complication to the process. But the surprise that accompanied its announcement suggested as few people as necessary were aware in advance of the plan for obvious security reasons. Government backbenchers were unlikely to have been in this group. The upshot was that when Parliament resumed this week after a three week recess this legislation was introduced under Urgency, to be passed through all stages as soon as possible without any reference to a select committee or opportunity for public submissions. The Cabinet simply wanted the legislation passed as quickly as possible, to prevent the possibility of any legal or other challenges before the law was changed. To do so, it relied on the support of the government backbench for the obligatory occasional brief supportive speeches and the necessary votes in Parliament for it to happen as quickly as possible. As they did so, the backbenchers would have had to endure the usual standard cries of 'shame' and outrage from the other side of the House, notwithstanding that they too when in office – like every government – used and will continue to use Urgency in this way to pass controversial legislation. Over the next few weeks, it will be the government backbench 'lobby fodder' that will have to do the lion's share of facing up and responding to the anger of those adversely affected by this legislation. They will also be the ones challenged to explain why they supported it. Ministers, meanwhile, will have shifted their attention to the Budget due at the end of May. Between now and then, as is customary, there will be an ever-increasing drip-feed of announcements from Ministers about the good things they have secured in this Budget. But for the government backbenchers, the same old grind will continue. Once they have weathered the storm over the pay equity legislation, they will need to gear up to support and explain the Budget in its entirety, despite having had a similarly minimal input into its development. And all the while they will be focused on convincing their constituents that they are personally having an impact on what the government is doing and are therefore worth re-electing next year. For some, the motivation will be a noble belief that their government is always right. For others it will be a case of proving their loyalty to the team and willingness to take the good with the bad, in the hope that one day they will become Ministers. Then they really will be able to have a proactive and meaningful impact on what the government is doing.
RNZ News
06-05-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
The Panel with Peter Dunne & Boopsie Maran (Part 2)
business economy 6:30 pm today Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Peter Dunne & Boopsie Maran. They look at whether Newmarket's Westfield mall is killing neighbouring businesses, and Blenheim's CBD dilemma. Peter Dunne is a former MP and Government Minister, turned commentator. Boopsie Maran is an urban strategist and founder of Places for Good a Tamaki Makaurau based community engagement and placemaking collective.
