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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 >>
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 >>
