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G Campbell: Zaoui tormentor to investigate Police
Friday, 6 August 2010, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
A reward for failure is the only way that one can treat the utterly astonishing appointment of Richard Woods to the Independent Police Conduct Authority More >>
Gordon Campbell on our first combat death in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 10:47 am | Gordon Campbell
The first fatality in the New Zealand deployment in Afghanistan has occurred on the same day the Dutch ended their deployment in Uruzgan province, as a prelude to pulling their entire force of 1.900 troops out of Afghanistan next month. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Gaza inquiry, and Carter
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 9:32 am | Gordon Campbell
It may seem ‘too late’ to announce the appointment of a UN inquiry panel into the Gaza flotilla raid. Whether it is also ‘too little’ will depend on how broadly the international panel to be chaired by Sir Geoffrey Palmer chooses to cast its ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Chris Carter fiasco
Friday, 30 July 2010, 9:27 am | Gordon Campbell
If Chris Carter’s recent trip to Tibet was in search of spiritual enlightenment, he will have come back with a ready explanation for his current problems: bad karma. There can hardly have been a more blatant case of self-inflicted damage to a political ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: despicable alcohol limit decision
Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 9:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s non-decision on the alcohol limit has underlined once again that the Key government is not interested in governing for the benefit of New Zealand – that process seems to scare it silly. Alcohol seems to bring out the worst in this ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Haiti, as the hurricanes arrive
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
Six months after the Haiti earthquake, only a trickle of the $10 billion in aid that had been pledged by dozens of countries and multilateral agencies has actually been delivered to Haiti. Reportedly, only a handful of countries – namely, Brazil, Australia, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the mining backdown
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
The government’s formal capitulation ( due later today) on the mining of Schedule Four conservation land is a smashing victory for the public – one that has been made possible in part by the Key government’s skittish tendency to back off from ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the making of The Hobbit
Friday, 16 July 2010, 11:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Given that successive governments have identified the film industry as a prime catalyst of the knowledge economy, you might have expected more local media attention would be being paid to the sale of MGM, which will directly determine whether and when ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: ‘Claim Of Right’ and Armed Police
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 3:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
Usually when the public feels outraged by an acquittal in a high profile trial, the response by the Justice Minister of the day is to defend the jury system. You know the drill - the jury were in the courtroom, they heard all the evidence, and by implication, ... More >>
Campbell: the ideology behind state spending cuts
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, the cuts to government spending are being driven by ideology and not by the state of the economy. More >>
Campbell: Key and Australia’s asylum seekers
Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Asylum seekers? We’ve been here before under a National-led government. In 1999, the then-Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere used the spectre of 120 Chinese boat people coming over the horizon to rush through Immigration Act changes that allowed ... More >>
Campbell:Business leaders and the confidence fairy
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Given the poor economic data from the United States in June, the Reserve Bank obviously needs to halt the upward march of interest rates. While it has been politically expedient for the Key government to talk up the signs of recovery, the recent economic data ... More >>
G Campbell: The Jackson Film Commission review
Friday, 2 July 2010, 11:48 am | Gordon Campbell
The developmental arc of the review falls into three main parts: complaints, a short burst of diagnosis, and a shortlist of suggestions… with the suggestions tailing off into a round-up of recent issues (the Escalator fund, the Large Budget Screen ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Julia Gillard, and Simon Power
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Julia Gillard’s ascent to the top job in Australia will face its first major policy test in the next fortnight, as she will have to outline her stance on the claims of asylum seekers – always an explosive political topic across the Tasman. Somehow, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the World Cup and the media
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, New Zealand made a splash in the Fifa World Cup coverage yesterday... being cited as a justification for the bizarre and draconian decision to criminally prosecute the Dutch women who dressed in orange to promote a non-Fifa sponsored beer company. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Our costly efforts in Afganistan
Monday, 21 June 2010, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Routinely, we are told that the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province has been doing a great job – and maybe they are, with the limited resources they have – but without much being available in ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Foreshore & Seabed / Gaza
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
The Maori Party seems to have won few immediate and tangible benefits from its long awaited deal on the foreshore and seabed - and nothing at all (beyond a cosmetic name change) from the position that was staked out recently by the government in ... More >>
G Campbell: Ministerial spending & child poverty
Friday, 11 June 2010, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
The litmus test in the Ministerial expenses scandal is what would happen to an ordinary employee who repeatedly misused the company or departmental credit card in the fashion exposed in the last couple of days. Repaying the money would not be enough – dismissal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Green Party conference
Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The Greens held their party conference last weekend - the first for some years not dominated by an actual or pending leadership change. This time, the new team of Russel Norman and Meteria Turei could focus entirely on the traditional functions of party ... More >>
G Campbell: Rugby apology, Gaza blockade, Kiwibank
Thursday, 3 June 2010, 12:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Isn’t there something truly weird about any Maori Party request= to government for an apology over the exclusion of Maori players from tours to apartheid-era South Africa? More >>
