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G Campbell: the need to condemn the Gaza blockade
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
The Israeli attack on the Turkish aid convoy to Gaza, and its subsequent slaughter of the civilians on board is being condemned around the world. More >>
G Campbell on the aid flotilla approaching Gaza
Friday, 28 May 2010, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
Some days ago, a flotilla of nine ships left a port in Turkey bound for the Gaza enclave, laden with medical and building supplies and carrying some 800 peace activists from a range of countries. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the plans to sell state assets
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 10:39 am | Gordon Campbell
At yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference Prime Minister John Key said that work ‘had not yet begun’ on deciding which state assets - if any - would be sold during his government’s second term . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the trade-offs in the Budget
Friday, 21 May 2010, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Raising the level of GST; Keeping People in New Zealand; Tax Cuts and Growth; Borrowing for Tax Cuts, and for Rodney Hide’s empire.; Looking Ahead More >>
Gordon Campbell: shifting rationales for tax cuts
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
When asked by Scoop at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference to name a couple of countries where tax cuts had resulted in economic growth, Prime Minister John Key cited the United States. More >>
Campbell: Peter Gluckman, and the science package
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, at least two isotopes of the government’s chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman have been isolated, and identified. The commonly observed variant – lets call it P1 – emerges at regular intervals to emit bromides that science is good, ... More >>
Campbell: Gordon Brown’s exit, women in Afganistan
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 10:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that Gordon Brown has resigned, the way is a little bit clearer for Nick Clegg to make a deal with Labour – but only a little bit clearer. The arithmetic of cobbling together a parliamentary majority for a Lib/Lab government (which would need a gaggle ... More >>
Campbell: ongoing Peter Saunders saga, UK election
Monday, 10 May 2010, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that everyone has had a good laugh at Social Development Minister Paula Bennett for mixing up which Peter Saunders she had actually appointed to advise her welfare reform panel, we can move on. More >>
Gordon Campbell: CEO pay, calls to hike the OCR
Friday, 7 May 2010, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Lets get this straight. Paying schoolteachers is said to be a very very bad thing to do as we emerge from the recession - but letting CEOs in the private sector make out like gangbusters is totally fine, even while they’re preaching austerity to ... More >>
G Campbell: privatizing water, SAS in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide continues to pursue his vocation in life, of turning public assets into profit centres for the private sector. More >>
Gordon Campbell: banning 18-19 year olds from bars
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 9:36 am | Gordon Campbell
In what passes for a public debate here about the flow of young New Zealanders across the Tasman and beyond, the focus is always narrowly economic – on comparative wage levels, and on student debt levels. Far too little emphasis has been given to the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: RWC fever, Obama’s Supreme Court
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
RNZ this morning carried the news that “new research” now shows that the Rugby World Cup would add an estimated $535 million to the nation’s GDP. At this point in time, it is still unclear whether necromancy, dowsing or feng shui was the method ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our fixation with Gallipoli
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
At the post-Cabinet press conference last Monday, Prime Minister John Key had to field a range of official and personal questions from the press gallery about Anzac Day. Had he ever been to Gallipoli? As a young man on his OE, had he wanted to? Would ... More >>
Campbell: Paula Bennett’s strange welfare panel
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Last week when Social Development Minister Paula Bennett named the working group on welfare reform, she also cited in a footnote two experts that the panel could draw on for support – Professor Bob Gregory, an economics professor at Australian ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on getting a fair deal for our oil
Friday, 16 April 2010, 9:33 am | Gordon Campbell
As the deadline approaches for public submissions on the government’s plans to open up sensitive conservation areas to mining, the likely economic returns to New Zealand remain a complete mystery. We don’t know the economic worth of these deposits ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Welfare Insurance
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
The new working group on welfare reform to be headed by former Commerce Commission head Paula Rebstock will be looking at schemes of unemployment insurance that exist elsewhere in the world, and Canada is widely regarded as a leading source of policy ... More >>
Campbell On New Zealand's Anti-Nuclear Posturing
Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 11:17 am | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand's national identity is very much based on our sense of virtuous purity – and the feeling that we can provide a shining example to an outside world riven by conflict and greedy self interest. If only people were more like us. If only they ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Whanau Ora scheme
Friday, 9 April 2010, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
At the unveiling of Whanau Ora, the government scrapped a key feature that its expert Task Force had deemed to be ‘pivotal’ – namely, that this new system of social service delivery should be run by an independent trust. Instead, it will be run from ... More >>
G Campbell: Catholic Church's child abuse scandal
Tuesday, 6 April 2010, 12:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
At the school I attended as a child, any and all queries by parents about the standard of teaching or the content of the syllabus would be met by the stock response: “Take your child elsewhere, then.” End of criticism, since to be Catholic meant an obligation ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Iraq election, Andrew Williams
Monday, 29 March 2010, 3:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
So Iyad Allawi’s secular Sunni coalition has won the most seats in the Iraqi elections. While the mainstream media from the New York Times to the Dominion-Post has been calling this a stunning upset, the outcome was quite predictable. My Scoop column ... More >>
