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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 >>
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 >>
