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On Why We Can’t Survive Two More Years Of This
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 12:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
Finance Minister Nicola Willis seems intent on portraying herself as that damsel in distress. According to her, this country’s current economic problems have all been caused by the spending schemes cooked up by the dastardly and long-departed ... More >>
On The Coalition’s Empty Gestures, And Abortion Refusal As The New Slavery
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
A whooping cough story from south Auckland is a good example of the coalition government’s approach to social need - spend money on urging people to get vaccinated but only after you’ve cut the funding to where they could get vaccinated. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Latest Round Of Ferry Follies
Friday, 13 December 2024, 1:02 pm | Gordon Campbell
Winston Peters as Minister of Rail has exposed the deep rifts around the coalition Cabinet table. All year, Peters’ preference has been for ferries with a “roll on, roll off” capability instead of the government's preferred option without this ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Government’s Ongoing Ferries Disaster
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 3:45 pm | Gordon Campbell
We learned today that Nicola Willis and Winston Peters, the newly-anointed Minister of Rail have a plan to replace the iRex ferries that were otherwise due to arrive in 2026. The replacement ships (a) will now arrive at an unknown time but not before ... More >>
On The Fall Of Assad, And The New Dylan Movie
Monday, 9 December 2024, 11:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Hold the champagne. Ugly and brutal as it was, the Assad regime may have been the lesser evil for Syria, the Middle East region and the rest of the world. And, just after Christmas, the Bob Dylan dramatized film biography A Complete Unknown will ... More >>
On How Slavishly This Government Is Serving Its Corporate Donors
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
The government has been tilting the balance of power in the workplace even further in favour of employers. This week saw the Workplace Relations Minister reduce the ability of workers to bring personal grievance proceedings against bad employers ... More >>
On Why An AUKUS Led By Trump Is A Scary Prospect
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 12:02 pm | Gordon Campbell
On the weeknd, Labour figured out that it doesn’t want New Zealand to join Pillar 2 of an AUKUS pact after all. Hmm. This is despite the fact that its then-Defence Minister Andrew Little seemed dead keen on AUKUS when Labour was last in a position ... More >>
On The Royal Commission’s Fine-tuning Of Vaccine Mandates And Lockdowns
Friday, 29 November 2024, 9:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Let's hope politicians of all stripes can agree to limit their urge to politicise the Inquiry findings about the Covid response. Since ensuring we get properly equipped next time around –will involve political decisions, some degree of political point ... More >>
On What’s Wrong With The Treaty Principles Bill
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 11:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Seymour’s Bill is a concerted attempt to deny that the Crown has responsibilities and obligations. It does so by invoking a bogus equality before the law, and ignoring the causes of the blatant and enduring inequality of access to opportunity - issues ... More >>
On The Hikoi Aftermath
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
The euphoria from yesterday’s hikoi may be transitory, but is no less valuable for that. It is pretty rare for the left to feel itself to be in the overwhelming majority, and speaking as the voice of the people. And, in business speak, the hikoi ... More >>
On The Hikoi Arrival, And Tyler Childers
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
National's actions in regard to the Treaty Principles Bill debate indicates their actions they’re more keen on stoking rather than healing society’s racial/economic divisions. What could possibly go wrong? More >>
On The Folly Of Making Apologies In A Social Vacuum.
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
We’re faced with six more months of “debate” about our founding document. as the the Treaty Principles Bill hits the house. Maybe I blinked, but there didn’t seem to be any public debate about why the circa 200,000 victims of state “care” More >>
On The Crown’s Sorry Excuse For An Apology
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 12:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
The world over, politicians are finding “sorry” to be the easiest word. Without disclosing the size and formula of the monetary compensation that the government is prepared to offer to those abused while in state care, a mere apology verges on ... More >>
On Abortion’s Role In The US Election
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 10:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, America moved decisively to the right not only politically, but socially and economically. This rightwards shift was evident not merely in the red states and seven “battleground” states, but also in the Democratic heartland. More >>
On US Voter Suppression, Plus The Races To Watch
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 12:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
US election results tend to start rolling in around 1pm on Wednesday. As our television relays images of long lines of people queuing to vote, keep this in mind: since 2012, America has closed 20% of its polling places. More >>
On America’s Fear Of Foreigners
Friday, 1 November 2024, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
For the past eight years though, Donald Trump has been selling a stunted vision of America. The tens of millions of Americans who comprise Trump Nation have been told to cower in fear of immigrants. More >>
On Why So Many Young Males Like Donald Trump
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
Some clues to the allure of Trumpism can be found in the gender gap of unprecedented size that has opened up between those in the 18-29 age group. Just over half of young men – and especially those without a college degree – intend voting for Trump. More >>
On Dissing Wellington, And Porridge Radio
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
National has never forgiven Wellington – or its public servants – for voting for Labour and the Greens. (Red-blooded Kiwis work in the private sector.) No surprise then to find a right wing central government being willing to kick the Capital when ... More >>
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 >>
