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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 >>
On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 1:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
For the past 50 years, the centre-right has been using beneficiaries as a political punching bag. But now unemployment is at a three high and rising, helped along by the government’s deliberately trashing the jobs of thousands of public servants. More >>
On Making Profits From The Ferries Fiasco
Friday, 9 August 2024, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has taken a ton of flak for not having a Plan B in place before she cancelled Kiwirail’s contract for the new Cook Strait ferries. Yet maybe her own Plan A all along has been to use a public private partnership (PPP) ... More >>
On Making Profits By Trashing Consumer Protections
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
The government has once again chosen to put the profits of business ahead of what the public health research is telling us. Under pressure from the giant Danone multinational, New Zealand has backed out of signing a proposed Trans-Tasman labelling standard ... More >>
On Who’s Making Gold From The Olympics
Monday, 5 August 2024, 2:28 pm | Gordon Campbell
No-one (apart from advertisers perhaps) seems to make much money out of doing business with the IOC. France will have spent $8.2 billion to stage the Olympics, making it the sixth costliest Games of all time. More >>
On The Government Crusade To Degrade The Public Health System
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
If anything finally convinces voters that the Luxon government is a deadly risk to life and limb, it will be the damage it is doing to the public health system. There is no sign the government recognises the realities we face, let alone has a response ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Greens’ Darleen Tana Dilemma, And The Weirdness Of J.D. Vance
Monday, 29 July 2024, 4:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
List MPs are on shakier ground than electorate MPs if they resign (or get expelled) from the party under whose banner they entered Parliament. An electorate MP can lay some claim to having a personal mandate from voters, in addition to their party affiliation. More >>
On The Royal Commission Inquiry Into Abuse In Care
Friday, 26 July 2024, 11:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Chris Hipkins was applauded for saying that the response to the final report of the Inquiry into Abuse in Care had to be “bigger than politics.” True, but the apologies will soon ring pretty hollow if the state doesn’t treat its response as an overriding ... More >>
On A Textbook Case Of Spending Waste By The Luxon Government
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to ... More >>
On The Biden Withdrawal
Monday, 22 July 2024, 1:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
History is not on the side of the centre-left, when Democratic presidents fall behind in the polls and choose not to run for re-election. On both previous occasions in the past 75 years (Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968) the Democrats proceeded ... More >>
On Why Right Wingers Think All Governments (including Their Own) Are Incompetent
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 4:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
It isn’t all that surprising that the Luxon government should see no leading role for itself in the response to climate change. As an item of quasi-religious faith, centre-right governments hold that governments – including themselves, presumably ... More >>
On The Trump Shooting And A Potential Hike In Fees For Visiting The Doctor
Monday, 15 July 2024, 1:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Having watched Donald Trump systematically exploit social grievances, urge people not to accept his election loss and incite his followers to violent insurrection... it is a bit hard to swallow the media descriptions over the past 24 hours of Trump ... More >>
On Luxon In The NATO Pressure Cooker
Thursday, 11 July 2024, 11:31 am | Gordon Campbell
PM Christopher Luxon will be made aware of the pressure on the 32 NATO member states (a) to increase their Defence spending (b) to become less militarily dependent on the US and (c) to treat NATO as having a global purpose, beyond its customary regional ... More >>
On The Elections In France, Iran And Britain
Monday, 8 July 2024, 2:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
Despite hysterical prior media calls that the far right might win an absolute majority in France’s National Assembly, the outcome has been a victory for the left wing coalition, but also for Macron, the left’s unlikely second round ally. More >>
On Saving Journalists, Not An Industry That Routinely Exploits Them
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 12:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
Labour is saying it needs to listen. Apparently, Labour is going to spend 2024 listening, and 2025 thinking about its options. It could be 2026 before Labour finally reveals what it has in mind. Really? Currently, National and ACT are burning down the house, ... More >>
