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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 >>
Gordon Campbell: Problems making tax cuts stack up
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Would scrapping the depreciation rules on rental residential property really deliver the $1.6 billion promised? That $1.6 billion sits on one side of the ledger and - when added to the $2 billion in revenue likely to be raised by hiking GST t0 15% ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: John Key’s agenda for the nation
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
There seemed to be three main components to John Key’s speech : (a) tax cuts largely paid for by a hike in GST (b) mining in national parks and on conservation land, while building more roads. (c) giving firms easier access to the r&d from Crown Research ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Monty Python & FTA Holy Grail
Monday, 8 February 2010, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Perhaps we can all quietly sign a pact to forego comparing a free trade deal with the US to the quest for the Holy Grail. This ‘free trade as Holy Grail’ notion is a cliché that will not die, because the media loves it so much. More >>
Campbell: Govt's clueless response to unemployment
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, we’re now seeing some of the fruits of small government, and having government butt out of our lives. Unemployment rose to 7.3 % during the last three months of 2009, the highest rate in ten years. Some 168,000 New Zealanders are now out of work, ... More >>
Werewolf Previews the New Defence White Paper
Monday, 1 February 2010, 11:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Welcome to our latest edition of Werewolf. The cover story offers the first part of a two part preview of the government's White Paper on Defence. Werewolf editor Gordon Campbell traces the domestic and international setting for this new framework ... More >>
On Government Tolerance Of White Collar Crime
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 10:17 am | Gordon Campbell
This government takes a crush ‘em and crate ‘em approach to crime – unless that is, the offender happens to be wearing a tie. In which case, judging by the Ministry of Economic Development discussion paper on business cartels released yesterday, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the SAS in Kabul
Monday, 25 January 2010, 12:54 pm | Gordon Campbell
The saga of media coverage of the SAS in Afghanistan took another turn on the weekend with National MP Eric Roy bizarrely blaming Helen Clark for the ‘ degeneration’ in media coverage of our special forces. According to Roy, Clark triggered the whole ... More >>
