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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 >>
On the Jackson film review, and benefit policy
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the missing-in-action Jackson film review, and the new benefit policy More >>
Campbell: The Government’s Greenlight to Mining
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, we learned yesterday that Forest and Bird leaks had been right all along, and that the government is indeed planning to take 7,058 hectares of land currently under Schedule 4 protection (because it had been judged to be crucial to the conservation ... More >>
Campbell: The Waihopai Three & East Jerusalem
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:34 am | Gordon Campbell
The acquittal of the Waihopai Three for their attack on the Waihopai spy base is as welcome as it is surprising. To succeed in court, one would have thought they would need to have proved a direct connection between the base near Blenheim and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The economics of mining DOC land
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Key’s claimed search for balance raises an obvious question. Who, I asked, is providing the government with its estimates of the potential economic benefits – and is that assessment being done independently by the government, or will it be ... More >>
On the Wellywood sign (& Education Cuts)
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
It is pretty hard to see the logic of promoting the creativity of the New Zealand film industry via a copy of someone else’s creativity... Same as it ever was. On economic policy in recent years, New Zealand has been just as reliant on acts of ... More >>
Campbell: fresh evidence about the gender pay gap
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
An appropriate newsflash yesterday for International Women’s Day. After analyzing Inland Revenue data, the Women’s Ministry has found that women almost immediately begin to be paid less than men who have the same tertiary education qualifications. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Gattung’s attack on Telecom
Friday, 5 March 2010, 9:15 am | Gordon Campbell
The gist of Gattung’s complaints is that (a) Telecom executives are being paid too much now. In her opinion, a $7 million salary and incentives package for current CEO Paul Reynolds is intolerable, but her own $3 million package was OK and the $5.4 ... More >>
Campbell: Garrett’s sterilisation plan, and Hamas
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
David Garrett’s bizarre suggestion that people who abuse children should be given a $5,000 incentive to get themselves sterilized is so crass that one hardly knows where to begin. Yes, some people probably shouldn’t be parents. Some people shouldn’t ... More >>
Werewolf - Issue # 9 - Proving Roger Douglas Wrong
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Hi and welcome to the March edition of Werewolf. Our cover story this month carries out an in-depth analysis of Sir Roger Douglas’s rationale for his legislation that would bring youth rates for workers aged 15-17 years of age, and deny them equal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Phil Heatley saga
Friday, 26 February 2010, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the Phil Heatley saga, and more on low budget films More >>
The Govt’s environmental credibility in Canterbury
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, Ronald Reagan’s aides would go into in panic mode whenever the avuncular President started to ad lib a few additional points of clarification. The aim may have been candour, but the remarks tended to give a terrifying glimpse into the abyss ... More >>
Campbell: Mallard’s big day, and low budget films
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 11:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Normally, Trevor Mallard is not renowned for his subtlety, yet his stealth attack on Education Minister yesterday in the House was a stone classic. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the looming elections in Iraq
Monday, 15 February 2010, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Early next month, Iraq is due to hold an election. One of the ironic outcomes of the US/UK led invasion in March 2003 has been to put into power a bloc of Shia religious parties long dependent on support from Iran, the star player in George Bush’s ‘ ... More >>
