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Campbell: The selective targeting of Beenie Man
Monday, 16 November 2009, 9:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, Big Day Out organizers have backed down from their original intention to include the Jamaican dancehall musician Beenie Man in the next BDO festival line-up in January. The reason has been the public pressure from gay activists who have been ... More >>
Campbell: Obama’s latest surrender to Israel
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
President Barack Obama’s single most important foreign policy decision during 2009 has been his recent backdown over requiring Israel to abandon the building of settlements in the occupied territories. Beforehand, this was to be a precondition for peace ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Powers of search and surveillance
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Does the Search and Surveillance Bill, as the NZ Herald has recently maintained, really give a web of state agencies ‘sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers’ ? Or is this all based on a ‘remarkable misunderstanding’ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the Harawira junket, Sean Plunket
Friday, 6 November 2009, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
At least the coalition government has shown itself to be united this week – it seems intent on junketing at taxpayer expense across a broad and unified front. Hone Harawira of the Maori Party, Rodney Hide of the Act and the deputy leader of the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Foreshore and Seabed deals & Iran
Monday, 2 November 2009, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
So today, the government formally agrees to dump the foreshore and seabed legislation. On one level, this means karma retribution for National, which made so much of the iwi vs kiwi billboards in 2005 – since it will now fall to a National-led government ... More >>
Campbell: Cuts to Central (& Local) Govt Spending
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 9:52 am | Gordon Campbell
As sure as night follows day, when farmer incomes come under pressure, Federated Farmers want to cut welfare – and slash anything else they think might be fuelling the stronger dollar while they’re at it. In 2009, this sort of cry looks particularly ... More >>
Campbell: Tolley’s 19th century education approach
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 9:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember National’s election promise to return New Zealand to the top half of the OECD tables? In government, its moves in education seem motivated more by a desire to return New Zealand to the golden age of Victorianism – when the three “R”s ... More >>
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 >>
