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Gurtej Singh
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Driving strategy, operations, and leadership in the nonprofit space. Passionate about community impact in Aotearoa and personally researching the Global South. Community-focused with a love for trail walking and outdoor adventures.
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Lessons Beyond the Classroom
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Lessons Beyond the Classroom
In recent months, a particular minister has been especially visible in conversations about the future of schooling. His advocacy for charter schools is well known, and his regular visits to primary…
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December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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What the Blame Hides
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What the Blame Hides
Trump’s claim that globalisation did not benefit the West reads strangely from Aotearoa New Zealand. Our story is not one of civilisational decline or of nations sinking into a late Western mood. I…
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November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Culture at the Top
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Culture at the Top
November 2025’s police-misconduct news did not surprise me. It felt familiar, almost expected. Social media quickly pinned on whichever government last made the senior appointments. But policing in…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The Slow Capture of Local Democracy
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The Slow Capture of Local Democracy
Lately, I have begun to see Wellington’s mayors through the city’s water pipes, which are nothing more than rusted veins that burst each summer, spilling not just water but the fatigue of a city th…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A Week Between Memory and Motion
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A Week Between Memory and Motion
Further to my previous blog – Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully, my travels continued last month into Vietnam where I spent a week spent tracing the pulse of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) a…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
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Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
When I was younger, travel writing was all text. Long, unhurried accounts with a few photo plates lodged somewhere in the middle of the books, as if to rest the eyes. You travelled first through se…
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November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Speed Cameras Miss the Real Danger: Behaviour
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Speed Cameras Miss the Real Danger: Behaviour
The news of New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) deploying mobile trailer cameras to hunt for speeders is bound to draw attention. They will catch the black-and-white of numbers, the dig…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The Illusion of Cohesion
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The Illusion of Cohesion
Britain’s post-war migration experience shows how integration can produce visible success stories without guaranteeing deep social cohesion. The rise of leaders like Rishi Sunak and Sadiq Khan, bot…
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September 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Voting Papers Arrive
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Voting Papers Arrive
Voting papers are in the post for the local elections. A thick envelope, a scattering of wards and constituencies across Wellington to be marked in pencil and sealed away. On the last page rests th…
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September 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The Maturing of MMP
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The Maturing of MMP
Many say that Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation has not worked in Aotearoa New Zealand. Critics point to hung parliaments, messy compromises, and policy drift. Yet the current coalitio…
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August 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ending the circus
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Ending the Circus
Some conversations in Aotearoa New Zealand are like the tide. They come in with urgency, full of froth and promise, and then slide back out, leaving only the faint trace of where they had been. The…
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August 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Beyond the Backlash
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Beyond the Backlash
The appointment of Nikhil Ravishankar as the new CEO of Air New Zealand should have been a moment of national confidence, proof that Aotearoa New Zealand is ready to embrace a new generation of glo…
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August 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The Mirror We Avoid:
It begins with hope.
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The Mirror We Avoid
It begins with hope. The kind of hope that folds neatly into a carry-on suitcase, stuffed between passport stamps and addresses of friends, cousins and relatives on your WhatsApp who promised a sof…
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July 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The Danger of Trivialising Democracy
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The Danger of Trivialising Democracy
Lately, in that strange murmur that passes for political news in Aotearoa New Zealand, there’s been talk—suggestions, really—that submissions to Parliament’s Select Committees are being churned out…
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June 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Captured Mt Fuji from Mt Takao with a 30x zoom—trail to the summit in clear view. Stunning!
December 30, 2024 at 12:32 AM