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Campbell: Selling our defence bases to speculators
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
The proposal to sell our defence bases and lease them back to the armed forces from their new, private sector landlords is a pretty good example of the short term thinking that is driving the whole process of public private partnerships. Any wishful thinking ... More >>
Campbell: Plans to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities
Monday, 20 April 2009, 12:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
During the election campaign last year, Joe Biden caused a mini-flap by suggesting that within his first six months in office, Presaident Barack Obama would be tested in an international crisis by one of America’s enemies. Increasingly though, it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Fiji And Its Critics
Sunday, 19 April 2009, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Oh dear. In the black and white universe in which the likes of No Right Turn reside, I’m now allegedly a supporter of despotism norightturn.blogspot.com for daring to present evidence that the structure of the Fiji electoral system – as played ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Fiji And Its Critics
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 11:19 pm | Gordon Campbell
Oh dear. In the black and white universe in which the likes of No Right Turn reside, I’m now allegedly a supporter of despotism for daring to present evidence that the structure of the Fiji electoral system – as played out in the elections of ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on events in Fiji
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
Chris Trotter is well able to look after himself, but the recent criticism on him by No Right Turn over the Fiji situation is worth a few comments. The notion that an election, any election is an over-riding litmus test of political legitimacy cannot ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on WINZ and food banks, Fiji
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
A few months ago, Scoop asked Paula Bennett at John Key’s post-Cabinet press conference whether she saw a pressing need – in the light of the global financial crisis – to relax the criteria for special assistance to families who would become dependent ... More >>
Campbell: The pre-ordained demise of Auckland
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Barely five months into the Key administration, the centre right is plainly making far more effective use of its ideological bedmates than Labour ever did with the Alliance, or the Greens. Rodney Hide is not even in Cabinet. Fewer than four per ... More >>
Campbell: G20 package, McCully’s Washington trip
Friday, 3 April 2009, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Barack Obama came to London seeking a fresh spending package to revive the global economy and – despite European objections that tighter regulation and not more money was the way to go – he has got a surprisingly large trillion dollar package ... More >>
Campbell: Obama’s world stage debut, more Auckland
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
This week will be dominated by coverage of Barack Obama’s first foray on the world stage, as President. Today and tomorrow he will be in London for the G20 gathering to discuss economic stimulus and financial reform. ( Expect fireworks from Brazil ... More >>
Campbell: The rush to impose the ‘Super City’
Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
So Cabinet will have reached a decision by April 6th about the Royal Commission’s Auckland “Super City” proposal... Now hold your horses. Set up a Royal Commission. Get its key proposal. Put it to the public in a referendum to let them decide. Isn’t ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Helen Clark appointment
Friday, 27 March 2009, 9:21 am | Gordon Campbell
While Helen Clark’s appointment to a four year term as administrator of the United Nations Development Plan is a major personal achievement, lets not lose our heads about this. Her precedessor, Kemal Dervis was the former finance minister of Turkey ... More >>
Campbell: Prlt’s willingness to scrutinise the SIS
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
This evening the new members of Parliament’s committee on the security and intelligence will meet for the first time. John Key, Rodney Hide, Tariana Turia, Phil Goff and Russel Norman have a rare chance to transform one of Parliament’s most embarrassing ... More >>
Campbell: Govt’s rash of PR debacles, & Bob Marley
Monday, 23 March 2009, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Plainly, the wheels are now falling off the government’s attempts to govern by tokenism and PR gimmicks – the nine day working fortnight, the national cycle way etc etc. Only two firms, as Prime Minister John Key conceded on the weekend, are ... More >>
Campbell: Foreclosing Obama Foreign Policy Options
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
While Barack Obama’s attention has been focused almost entirely on the plight of the US economy, the election outcomes in three key foreign countries will be shaping his foreign policy options this year - once he gets time to consider them. In Israel, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: spies in Parliament, RWC, TVNZ
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
So, as Scoop recommended six weeks ago, the SIS is to be told to close its files on sitting MPs. Paul Neazor, the SIS Inspector-General, picked up this suggestion in his report yesterday to Prime Minister John Key, in the wake of revelations that ... More >>
Campbell: Power on energy prices & TVNZ Job Losses
Monday, 16 March 2009, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Obviously, any Minister will try to dodge getting involved in a no win situation if they can help it, and the old ‘that’s an operational matter’ excuse is a useful tool of avoidance. It even carries an aura of virtue as well. It suggests ... More >>
Campbell: Miserly funding of 9 day fortnight
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 1:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
Plainly, workers are going to be the first people over the side of the lifeboat during this recession. The main policy idea to emerge from the recent jobs summit turns out to be a recipe to cut wages, since the training aspect of the initial idea has ... More >>
Campbell: Corporate welfarism behind aid changes
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Can a subsidy to our own national airline really qualify as foreign aid to the Pacific ? Apparently it can. As Scoop reported on Monday, the government is subsidizing various Air New Zealand routes between Los Angeles, Samoa Tonga, the Cook Islands and Auckland. ... More >>
Campbell: McCully’s attack on NZ's Aid Programme
Monday, 9 March 2009, 11:21 am | Gordon Campbell
These days, much of our foreign aid should be being directed into providing a safety net for the poor. If you count the oil price rise in 2007 and the large hike in world food prices, the current financial meltdown is the third crisis in a row to hit poorer ... More >>
Campbell: Treasury put us on the hook to banks
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
If a firm stopped taking deposits last September, and was heavily exposed in the current economic climate to a major loan to a Queenstown property developer, you’d think that might be ringing a few warning bells, wouldn’t you? Yet on 13 January ... More >>
