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On The Three Strikes Cycle Of Failure
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 12:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
We all know the “tough on crime” approach is only a stop gap measure at best, and that a justice model based on incarceration doesn’t work. Our prisons are already overcrowded, under-staffed and more often than not, function as training centres ... More >>
On The Language Of Healthcare, And Mink DeVille
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 11:55 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, the Great Multi-lingual Healthcare Crisis has passed by without any damage to life, or to limbs. To date, no-one appears to have mistaken the Hindi word for “lunch-break” for the Filipino word for “tracheotomy.” But then, the risk ... More >>
On Conservative Ghosts, Holly Arrowsmith And Fazerdaze
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Explaining the path of decline of the British Conservative Party is interesting for New Zealanders. The explanation that Bloomberg News recently published does sound very, very familiar. And despite Israeli war crimes and escalation, NZ obediently More >>
On Luxon Living In Denial About His Privilege
Friday, 11 October 2024, 1:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
Chris Luxon’s latest bout of self-congratulation was entirely irrelevant to the actual point at issue. Which was: shouldn’t New Zealand tax the income earned from capital gains, for the same reason that we tax the income earned from wages? More >>
On The Coalition’s Fast-tracked Speed Dates With Property Developers
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop admitted that not everyone will “like” his fast track wish-list, before adding: “We are a government that does not shy away from those tough decisions." More >>
On The Perils Of Israel’s War Fever
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 12:25 pm | Gordon Campbell
Israel seems on the brink of achieving the war with Iran that Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying all year to provoke. Until now, Iran had not replied in kind to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria, and its assassinations More >>
On The Dunedin Hospital Fiasco
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 12:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
Finance Minister Nicola Willis was still insisting this morning that Dunedin’s promised new hospital project has gone “ off track” and that we all “need to be sensible.” So let's be sensible - the increase in costs has been the absolutely More >>
On The Government’s Bizarre Hostility To A Capital Gains Tax
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 12:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in NZ has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Over the past three decades institutions and mainstream economists have all treated our lack of a capital gains tax as a globally unusual flaw in our tax ... More >>
On Nicola Willis’ Perverse Hostility To Working From Home
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Work-in-the-office mandates? Hell yes, Finance Minister Nicola Willis is all for them. Given half the chance, she believes, “some people but not all” will just skive off, otherwise. Willis is happy to barge in and tell departmental heads how ... More >>
On New Zealand’s Timid Reluctance To Tax The Rich
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
In one respect at least, New Zealand appears to be the Monaco of the South Pacific. Our wealthy pay low income taxes, face no significant tax on their capital gains, and there is no wealth tax at all. If you were rich, why live anywhere else? More >>
Gordon Campbell On ACT’s Plans To Strip Away The Rights Of Gig Economy Workers
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 12:38 pm | Gordon Campbell
The ways the ACT Party are aiming to redraw the lines between being an employee and being a contractor will set back the clock, and reduce the ability of workers to organise collectively. In all parts of the gig economy, ACT wants to individualise More >>
Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Nice as consensus sounds, the passion for it applies only to an agenda of the coalition government’s own choosing. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Mindset Driving The Crisis In Public Health
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:52 am | Gordon Campbell
Largely because of the financial crisis in GP practice, fewer medical students are choosing GP primary care as a career option. These problems have been decades in the making, but the response by the coalition government has been particularly abysmal. More >>
Gordon Campbell On Cricket’s Betrayal Of Afghan Women And Girls
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:52 am | Gordon Campbell
What fresh horrors does the Taliban government have to inflict on women and girls before New Zealand will decide not to play cricket with Afghanistan’s national team? Does Cricket New Zealand think that the ICC should recognise an Afghan women’s ... More >>
On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine On The Treaty
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
This past week has seen the coalition of chaos in fully dysfunctional mode. In the last six days, ACT and NZF have had two strikingly different responses to two strikingly similar problems in two key sectors of the economy: supermarkets and energy companies. More >>
Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad Faith
Tuesday, 10 September 2024, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
Almost a year on, National's campaign trail promises “to reduce the cost of living, restore law and order and improve our schools and healthcare” haven’t worn very well, have they? More >>
Gordon Campbell On How "fast Track" Steamrolls The Public Good
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 12:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand has a habit of creating official posts – the Overseas Investment Office, the Banking Ombudsman, the Grocery Commissioner – as a sop to public concerns, but where the terms of reference guarantee that such posts won't interfere unduly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Plague Of The Seymourites
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 1:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
David Seymour is like one of those American Televangelists. He is now building his own temple of bureaucracy...and it shall be known as the Ministry of Regulation and many regulations previously passed to protect the consumer, environment, and the More >>
Gordon Campbell On Why Workers Get Treated As Disposable
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
National is willing to waste time and money on supporting Act's Treaty Bill's first reading and sending it to a select committee – where more time and money will be wasted on public submissions and on committee hearings that are bound to receive ... More >>
On ACT’s Takeover Of The Government Agenda
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 1:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
The ACT Party won only 8.6% of the vote last year, so how come it seems to be driving about 75% of the government’s agenda? It helps ACT’s cause that Christopher Luxon is so incompetent, and such a pushover. Earlier this week, Luxon just couldn’t ... More >>
