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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 >>
Campbell: Treasury Update, And Calls for Austerity
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Any future built on Treasury forecasts is on shaky ground, but lets assume the relative optimism expressed by Treasury in yesterday’s half yearly fiscal update is well founded. Should Finance Minister Bill English respond by keeping the screws on government ... More >>
Campbell: Tolley's last stand, those mayoral text
Monday, 14 December 2009, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Education Minister Anne Tolley is painting herself into a dangerous corner by threatening to sack the boards of trustees at any primary schools still refusing in February to implement the national standards. Tolley seems hellbent on treating the issue ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Obama's Peace Prize (+ Al Quaeda)
Friday, 11 December 2009, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Before going into what Obama might need to do in future to justify the prize, we should spare a thought for those who have been having an even worse decade than the US... I’m talking about al Qaeda. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Risk Free Tax!
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 9:35 am | Gordon Campbell
On current indications the Buckle Tax review will provide the final draft of their recommendations to the government just before Christmas – to enable it to digest the content – and then release the document to the public during the third week ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: China and our problems with P
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Media coverage of the battle against P has tended to focus on the role of Maori gangs in the P trade. Yet most of the intercepts of the pseudoephedrine precursor to P that were being touted by John Key at his press conference yesterday originated from ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Rugby World Cup public funding
Friday, 4 December 2009, 11:29 am | Gordon Campbell
In any other industry, the taxpayer/ratepayer subsidies being offered to the professional rugby industry for its World Cup event in 2011 would be being slagged off as government handouts. Surely, no other business gets its premises built and budgeted losses covered ... More >>
Werewolf #6 Out Now - Penultimate Werewolf For '09
Friday, 4 December 2009, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Hi and welcome to the sixth edition of Werewolf. This issue contains two features about the Buckle tax review - which is shaping up as the defining event of the Key government's first term, in that the review will give John Key and Bill English the ... More >>
