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Gordon Campbell: Key's backbone problem with China
Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
On the evidence of the past week, New Zealand has a Prime Minister who seems chronically unable to stand up for himself – or this country - on points of principle. First we had John Key’s non-reaction (during his Breakfast TV interview) to Paul Henry’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Paul Henry saga
Friday, 8 October 2010, 12:50 pm | Gordon Campbell
So far, the penalties levied on Paul Henry’s have gone no further than a two week suspension for his on air querying of whether Kiwis of Indian descent look like New Zealanders, talk like New Zealanders or really are New Zealanders. Yet until the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the end game for The Hobbit
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
The two main issues that will decide Warners’ decision about where to shoot The Hobbit are both inching towards a resolution. Neither involve the actors’ union dispute which has always been a sideshow – mainly because the cost of reaching ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the trade unions vs The Hobbit
Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 11:43 am | Gordon Campbell
If the production of The Hobbit does finally move to eastern Europe, it would not be because of the actors’ wage bill or any fresh royalties deal on residuals – it would be because the producers stood to get a sufficiently better financial deal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Games, & exporting democracy
Friday, 24 September 2010, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, Scotland and Wales are sending their teams to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, while Canada and New Zealand are still delaying team departures, until sufficient progress is evident. Unwittingly, the Games are serving as a pretty good ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on taking prisoners' right to vote
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 9:35 am | Gordon Campbell
For the last few months a silly and spiteful private members Bill sponsored by National MP Paul Quinn has been working its way through the system. In essence, this legislation will deny the right to vote to anyone who is in jail. The Attorney-General Chris ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the Christchurch Earthquake law
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 11:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Come back Frank Bainimarama, all is forgiven. As of last night, New Zealand has surrendered the moral high ground from which to could denounce the dictator of Fiji, who – as such rulers tend to do – also sees his powers as being necessary for the greater ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Key’s false Afghanistan rationale
Monday, 13 September 2010, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
G Campbell: a solution to US hostility to Islam
Friday, 10 September 2010, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Bigotry has been having a bumper week, worldwide. Thankfully, the plans by the pastor of a tiny evangelical church in Florida to burn the Koran have been called off. Yet those plans were only the latest ripple from a similarly irrational outburst of hostility ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the ‘quake aftermath & Sean Plunket
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
The news that Police have reported a 53% leap in domestic violence incidents in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake stands in stark contrast to the media narratives of community resilience and stoicism that have dominated media coverage to date. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Dunne’s review of child support
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
In his comments this morning about his planned review of the child support legislation, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne is showing every sign of just tinkering with the scheme - rather than engaging with the regular complaints about the rigid legal formula ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: South Canterbury Finance bailout
Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 9:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Like the war in Iraq, there doesn’t seem to have been an exit strategy for the Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme – and the extension of the scheme until the end of 2011 has been the government’s way of mutely recognizing the ongoing fragility ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Mainstream media, War in Yemen
Friday, 27 August 2010, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Safe to say the mainstream media and the blogosphere do not hold particularly positive views of each other. Its like a family affair. In general, the MM treat the blogworld as some wild kid who is all fun and no responsibility, while bloggers treat the MM ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the targetting of youth drinking
Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
How times change. Only a couple of years ago, New Zealand was allegedly beset with Nanny Statism because the Clark government had passed a law that could conceivably criminalise parents if they hit small children for purposes of correction. Now, the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Aussie election stalemate
Monday, 23 August 2010, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
As the Sydney Morning Herald columnist Peter Hartcher says, there’s a rough justice to the Australian election outcome, given that both major parties ran essentially as opposition leaders – Julia Gillard against the Rudd government whose mistakes ... More >>
G Campbell: ACT horror show (& Ground Zero Mosque)
Friday, 20 August 2010, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
There’s one way for the ACT Party to solve its current financial problems – surely there must be a top rating reality TV show hiding in that rough 82 page draft that Heather Roy and her assistant Simon Ewen-Jarvie have helpfully sketched out for us. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Heather Roy, & the liquor vote
Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 9:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the Heather Roy coup, and the liquor vote Image & Audio: Hide Ducks Questions on ACT Leadership Coup More >>
G Campbell: Labour’s money problems & by-elections
Monday, 16 August 2010, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
If Labour and its leadership didn’t have enough immediate problems, the party’s capacity to mount an effective election campaign next year is certain to come under increasing strain, given the drain on its resources in coming months. Labour has ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Govt’s hostility toward women
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Once again, the Key government has shown it doesn’t give a stuff about issues that primarily affect women. Cabinet has rejected an official recommendation to compensate the victims of a rape culture that existed within the Police It has also shown no ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on welfare bashing, & Afghanistan
Monday, 9 August 2010, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
The government’s welfare working group has dutifully delivered the findings the government wants to hear. To Paula Rebstock and her colleagues, being on welfare is primarily a failure of attitude by beneficiaries – and has little or nothing ... More >>
