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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 >>
Our Dependence On Australia; Tax Cuts; TVNZ
Monday, 2 March 2009, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
One bonus of being a branch office of the Australian economy is that we can shelter at times in the shade of their relative good fortune. Frankly, how the Australian economy fares over the next twelve months will have more relevance to our wellbeing ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Friday’s job summit
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 9:25 am | Gordon Campbell
How bad is bad likely to be ? At this point, Friday’s job summit will begin under the shadow of a great unknown. No-one it seems, really has an up to date forecast on what unemployment will look like over the next couple of years. Or if they do ... More >>
Campbell: Who May Succeed Jeanette Fitzsimons
Monday, 23 February 2009, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
The fortunes of politicians can change overnight – cock of the walk one day, coq au vin the next. Not that Green party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons will be treated quite so cavalierly, but inevitably once she departs from the centre stage of the ... More >>
Campbell on John Key’s infrastructure announcement
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 6:51 pm | Gordon Campbell
So earlier today, we saw Prime Minister John Key unveil phase two of his government’s ‘rolling maul’ of solutions to the financial crisis. Phase one had been somewhat of a popgun affair - $120 million a year for four years – to help small business ... More >>
Campbell: Sir Roger Douglas, And His Orewa Speech
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Quaint. 25 years after Roger Douglas first won the power to affect this country, he has returned to Orewa , the elephant’s graveyard of politicians ( Don Brash, Winston Peters) still intent on stirring the embers of ancient grievances. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Obama, Locke & Israeli Elections
Monday, 9 February 2009, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the year’s major foreign policy decisions will soon be landing on the table of John Key’s government. The US will be coming round to ask for our military help. Should New Zealand agree to offer more military aid to help out the Americans in ... More >>
How Govt. Media Imagery Diverges From Reality
Monday, 2 February 2009, 2:45 pm | Gordon Campbell
The media loves a little Westie battler, but is not quite so keen on people who use privilege to get what they want. Last week Paula Bennett seemed to be both, at once. One moment her role in breaking up a brawl was all over the media as an example of ... More >>
