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Campbell: Managing the press gallery, Afghanistan
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
As a free fire exercise in which anything at all can be raised, the Prime Minister’s post Cabinet press conference should be a rewarding experience – and it commonly does set the political agenda for the next 48 hours. Yesterday though was a prime ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the RWC resolution, ACC changes
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
So the outcome of the Rugby World Cup fiasco is a reversion to sanity – one bid only, involving Maori Television, TVNZ and TV3... Ideology Drives ACC Changes More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Rugby World Cup bids
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
There seem to be two Rugby World Cups taking place in 2011. One is an absolutely splendid affair being overseen by RWC Minister Murray McCully that will pour $500 million into our national and local economies, and attract big spending visitors ... More >>
Tim Groser v the WSJ, Obama's Peace Prize
Monday, 12 October 2009, 9:34 am | Gordon Campbell
The main media byproduct of the recent Tim Groser march on Washington seems to have been this nasty editorial in the Wall Street Journal attacking New Zealand over its recent decisions on trade. A free trade fumble, the WSJ headline concluded, as it ... More >>
Werewolf #4 Out Now - Bumper Edition!
Friday, 4 September 2009, 11:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Another full moon tonight equals another edition of Werewolf - Edition No. 4 (See... http://werewolf.co.nz/ ). The Law has quite a presence this time, headed by Catriona MacLennan's article on rape law reform and Denis O’Reilly writing on gangs and ... More >>
Campbell: Extra Reasons To Dump Boscasen's Bill
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
While Prime Minister John Key has said National will not support the attempt by Boscawen to re-open the smacking debate, the rationale seems to be on grounds of expedience – to stop Parliament from being paralysed for months by yet another round of increasingly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Referendum About Hitting Kids
Monday, 24 August 2009, 9:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Diversion, as every parent knows, is a useful ploy in good parenting. You divert the angry child’s attention away – with a game, or another activity – from the thing that would otherwise lead to a violent confrontation. Basically, you change ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Rodney Hide’s Supercity ultimatum
Friday, 21 August 2009, 11:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Rodney Hide crawls out onto the ledge and threatens to resign all of his ministerial posts if the Auckland Supercity Council is allowed to include dedicated Maori seats; Afghanistan; Lockerbie More >>
Gordon Campbell: Deliberate defeat in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 12:09 pm | Gordon Campbell
Defence Minister Wayne Mapp’s main contribution to the House debate yesterday on Afghanistan was that New Zealand would want to see an improvement in the security situation in 12 months. Fat chance. Mapp’s effort was a signal of just how token ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Afghan Marital Rape Law
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 11:55 am | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand has a special interest in the rape law that Hamid Karzai has reportedly sneaked into effect only days before the Afghan election on Thursday. The law will particularly affect the Hazara community that form the majority in Bamiyan province, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Cozying up to the regime in Burma
Friday, 14 August 2009, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
If the military regime in Fiji deserves smart sanctions against its officials, relatives, supporters and sports teams – and it does – then you’d think New Zealand would be zealously promoting a policy of absolute zero tolerance towards the military regime ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: SAS going Dutch – or Canadian
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 11:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that our SAS troops are heading back into combat in Afghanistan the key question becomes – who are they going to replace? The answer to that would say a lot about what the SAS will be doing and where, inside the country. Apparently, there will ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Bill English’s Homing Instincts
Friday, 7 August 2009, 9:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, the first item on the review of ministerial expenses is going to be to create a clear definition of what constitutes ‘home’ – because judging by the performance of deputy Prime Minister Bill English, ‘home’ is a word that means what he chooses ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Bill English’s home and happiness
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
In recent days, there has been an odd symmetry between Graham Henry’s response to the All Blacks defeat in Durban and John Key’s rationale for the equally lamentable hole his deputy Bill English has dug himself into with his ministerial housing expenses. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Phil Goff Interview
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
H ang around in the leadership of National or Labour long enough, and chances are you will become Prime Minister. Don Brash, Bill English, Jim McLay, John Marshall – in the last 40 years, you can count on one hand the major party leaders who haven’t ... More >>
The Rabbits Wedding by Garth Williams
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
There’s so much crap in children’s bookshops and children’s tolerance of what is put in front of them is so immense, it should not be abused. That’s why it seems worth singling out some of the enduringly good books that, thanks to librarians and ... More >>
The Complicatist: Bradford Cox
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:39 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 will be featuring a song or album or genre that’s ... More >>
Campbell on putting the SAS back into Afghanistan
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Who has stolen John Key’s brain? The Prime Minister who only a couple of months ago was demanding to see a viable exit strategy before he would put New Zealand combat troops back into Afghanistan, has been replaced by a John Key impersonator for whom ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: foreign ownership rules, prisons
Friday, 24 July 2009, 12:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
To its critics, the government’s response to the recession has looked like an Eighties Revival. Psychologically speaking, that’s not so surprising, When in trouble, politicians of a certain age are prone to revert to the old time religion: cut taxes, slash government ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Treasury and Don Brash's revival
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
People are just so suspicious. When you have Treasury touting the virtues of contracting out public services and Don Brash – clearly, our best and brightest lateral thinker – being entrusted with the job of lifting our productivity game, then some cynics ... More >>
