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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 >>
Gordon Campbell on Three Strikes (& SAS in Kabul)
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 11:42 am | Gordon Campbell
In true Biblical fashion, there are 36 offences that will henceforth fall within the ambit of the Three Strikes policy – all of them of a violent and/or sexual nature, and that qualify for a maximum sentence of seven years or more. Incest and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the monarchy, and replacing it
Monday, 18 January 2010, 11:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Flexibility is an essential feature of the modern monarchy. How ironic that Prince William, as the Queen’s emissary, should be chosen to open the new Supreme Court in Wellington this morning, a building that embodies New Zealand’s decision to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Buring the Flag at ANZAC Day
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Any masochist who wants to feel depressed about the state of the New Zealand judiciary needs only to turn to Justice Terence Arnold’s recent majority decision in the Court of Appeal – and read through his rationale for dismissing the Valerie Morse ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: On The Lovely Bones & Other Bombs
Monday, 11 January 2010, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
Co-incidentally, just as Arts Minister Chris Finlayson readies himself to release Peter Jackson’s review of the Film Commission, Jackson’s own film The Lovely Bones will be going through its own trial by fire. More >>
A Holiday Werewolf for A New Year Blue Moon*
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
Thanks to everyone who has helped Werewolf to get off the ground during 2009 – whether by writing articles, or by reading them. Both ways, the effort/response has been terrific, and much appreciated by everyone here at Scoop. Special thanks to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Showdown Over Tax
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
T he Buckle working party on tax reform delivers its findings later this month. This will give the Key government a golden opportunity to carry out sweeping and enduring reform of the entire structure of the New Zealand economy. All types and ... More >>
Why John Key should continue to ignore Don Brash
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
D on Brash and his 2025 Task Force have been given the job of enabling the New Zealand economy to catch up with Australia in 15 years or so – which is only fair, since it was the policy mix during Brash’s reign at the Reserve Bank in the 1990s that ... More >>
A Kiwi helps salvage Britain’s system of justice
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:12 pm | Gordon Campbell
C arter Lane begins in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral and runs along Ludgate Hill, parallel to the Thames nearby below. Narrow to an almost Dickensian degree in places, it is home these days to a moneyed sequence of lawyers’ chambers and ... More >>
The Moomins, and their gift of tolerance
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
A fter the Moomin books started to be translated from Finnish into English in the late 1950s, several early critics clearly couldn’t figure them out. Sure, the books were odd and amusing enough – but the tales had no obvious beginning or end, and ... More >>
Dressing in style on the Galactic outer rim
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
W e know that New Zealand is merely a branch office of the global economy. What may be harder to accept is that we are also just a tiny outpost of the Galactic Empire, the rulers of the known galaxy both here and far, far away. What they lack in numbers, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Getting to grips with TUnEYaRdS
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
CD reviews tend to be consumer guides, a few paragraphs that boil the music down to a buy/don’t buy advisory note. At The Complicatist, we’re pointed in the opposite direction. Each month, this column features a song or album or genre that’s as ... More >>
Campbell on the govt’s plans for welfare reform
Monday, 21 December 2009, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
At a time of the year when family care and social generosity should be on everyone’s mind, we find Finance Minister Bill English announcing the government’s intention to get tougher on welfare in 2010. The details are still maddeningly vague, but the ... More >>
Campbell: Peter Jackson, and catching the Aussies
Friday, 18 December 2009, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
The most recent pointers we have on Jackson’s thinking about the local film industry were comments he made at the press conference for his recent Lovely Bones premiere in Wellington – which, in odd counterpoint to the recent 2025 Task Force report ... More >>
