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Jun 14, 20241 min read
Is that a real Swanndri?
National MPs marched into Fieldays wearing matching blue-checkered Swanndris without a speck of cow doo on them. An affinity for kitschy...
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Apr 16, 20241 min read
Secrets from an MP's past
This month Blackland released its triennial study into the academic and working backgrounds of current Members of Parliament. We collate...
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Aug 31, 20211 min read
Biden’s Vietnam
Biden’s denial that leaving Afghanistan won’t be like Vietnam broke multiple rules of PR and politics; he answered a hypothetical...
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Jun 3, 20201 min read
Power before media
The reason why Todd Muller got in such trouble in his first days as leader of the National Party was that he was too desperate to impress...
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Jun 4, 20191 min read
Strike first, and repeat
Widespread praise for the Government’s Wellbeing Budget shows the power of not leaving it to others to define your position or product....
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Nov 5, 20181 min read
What your job says about you
Following the Jami-Lee Ross controversy, there was a lot of attention on the study by BPR’s Mark Blackham and academic Geoffrey Miller...
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Oct 31, 20184 min read
MP careers: NZ’s 52nd Parliament
By Geoffrey Miller and Mark Blackham Since 2010 were have tracked MPs’ work and education backgrounds. We have done this to help us...
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Jun 12, 20181 min read
Be first to a number
The Nurses union has waged an excellent public campaign during its pay negotiations, but it got beaten by the “first to a number” trick....
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Jul 13, 20171 min read
Telling unchanging stories
For a career that has become a profession, the political class perform surprisingly badly at the job. Here’s two lessons you can learn...
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