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On The Left’s Electability Crisis, And The Abundance Ecotopia
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Basically, centre-left opposition parties that have recently been in government are struggling to find an identity in an era where they are still detested by many of the voters they need to win over, to be re-elected. More >>
On Why The US Stands To Lose The Tariff Wars
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Trump has plunged the world’s two largest economies into conflict in ways likely to damage both, and alter the wider patterns of international trade. Countries are being forced to deal with the fact that essential products will have to be sourced ... More >>
On Marketing The Military Threat Posed By China
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gosh, we had to wait years for this flimsy Defence Capability Plan (DCP), only to get a 25 page document filled with back-of-the-envelope costings meant to justify a gigantic $12 billion spending spree of public money over the next four years. More >>
On Peter Dutton’s Fading Election Prospects.
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 1:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
Since Australia is now our only dependable defence ally, maybe we should be paying attention to their upcoming election. Thanks entirely to Donald Trump, this is a very, very good time for those in power to be holding an election. More >>
On The Clash Between Auckland Airport And Air New Zealand
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
With one notable exception, the Commerce Commission’s comprehensive investigation has ended up endorsing every other aspect of the airport’s building programme (and its pricing/charging decisions) as “reasonable” and /or “acceptable” within ... More >>
On The Government’s Latest Ferries Scam
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 1:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
Has Winston Peters got a ferries deal for you! One of the contract bidders, South Korea’s vast Hyundai-Mipo Dockyard (HMD) held the initial contract for Labour’s iRex ferries, and this has to give HDM a unique ability to dictate the terms of where ... More >>
On The Americanising Of NZ’s Public Health System
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 1:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
One of the odd aspects of the government's plan to Americanise the public health system – i.e by making healthcare access more reliant on user pay charges and private health insurance – is that it is happening in plain sight. More >>
On Israel’s Murderous Relapse, And Peters’ Sad Decline
Monday, 24 March 2025, 1:26 pm | Gordon Campbell
Israel has reverted to slaughtering civilians, starving children and welshing on the terms of the peace deal negotiated earlier this year. The IDF’s current offensive seems to be intended to render Gaza unlivable, preparatory (perhaps) to re-occupation ... More >>
On Winston Peters’ Bad Trip, And The Return Of The PPPs Zombie
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
The epic importance of Winston Peters’ talks in Washington this week doesn’t seem to have culminated in anything more than us expressing our “concern” to the Americans about a series of issues that are already done and dusted. Tariffs? More >>
On Luxon’s Survival Chances, And The India FTA
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Whenever Christopher Luxon drops a classically fatuous clanger or whenever the government has a bad poll – i.e. every week – the talk resumes that he is about to be rolled. This is unlikely for several reasons. For starters, there is no successor. More >>
On Winston Peters’ Battle Against The Phantom Legions Of The Woke
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
In a month’s time, the Right Honourable Winston Peters will be celebrating his 80th birthday. Good for him. On the evidence though, his current war on “wokeness” looks like an old man’s cranky complaint that the ancient virtues of grit and know-how ... More >>
On The Government’s Stubborn Refusal To Invest For Growth
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 11:38 am | Gordon Campbell
As Simplicity economist Shamubeel Eaqub pointed out recently, the coalition government is trying to attract foreign investment here to generate economic growth, while – simultaneously – cutting back drastically on its own investment in our economy. More >>
On Why GP Practices Are In Crisis
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
Can we please have some context for the government’s hand-on-heart claims of caring about the health and well-being of ordinary “Kiwis”? In the real world, the rising cost of going to the doctor means that many of those “Kiwis” cannot afford to ... More >>
On Why Having Elections Less Often Is A Bad Idea
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 12:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
Are we feeling the country is in such capable hands, that we can afford to take a longer break between elections? Outside the parliamentary bubble and a few corporate boardrooms, surely there are not many people who think that voters have too much More >>
On School Lunches, And The Coalition Government Eating The Young
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 1:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
The school lunches saga gets worse by the day. If ACT leader David Seymour can’t/won’t now admit that this brainchild of his is a total disaster...what more evidence pray, does he need? Do children have to die in the school cafeteria before Seymour will More >>
On Why Our China Panic Is About To Get Expensive
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
Allegedly, the defence environment has changed, and New Zealand thus needs to spend significantly more on Defence. The rationale is that China (our main trading partner) has been raising its profile in the Pacific, a region hitherto seen to be our own ... More >>
On The Fall And Rise Of Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 9:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Good to see that this year, the New Zealand film societies are celebrating what would have been Sam Peckinpah’s 100th birthday with what they are calling “Peckinpah’s West” – a tribute consisting of screenings of The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett More >>
On Why Europe Is Being Made To Go It Alone
Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 11:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that the US has ripped up the Atlantic alliance, Europe is more vulnerable now than at any time since the mid-1930s. Apparently, Europe and Ukraine itself will not have a seat at the table in the talks between US President Trump and Vladimir ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Why “golden Visas” Are A Losing Bet On Growth
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
For obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to wealthy foreigners. Even selling the right to residency seems a bit dubious. For obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Surviving The 47th US President
Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 1:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Three weeks in, and the 24/7 news cycle is not helping anyone feel calm and informed about the second Trump presidency. After only three weeks, it is already exhausting. The media is being propelled into a sustained state of Attention Deficit Disorder. More >>
