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On Auckland’s Dysfunctional Mayor, And Air Travel Chaos
Friday, 31 March 2023, 9:44 am | Gordon Campbell
As Auckland’s cantankerous mayor stumbles from one crisis to the next, the hope is not that Wayne Brown will learn on the job – that’s almost certainly a lost cause – but that Aucklanders will manage to come together and limit the damage ... More >>
On The Banning Of Tik Tok
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
For a serial offender like Stuart Nash, it was inevitable that another skeleton would emerge from his closet, and end his ministerial career. This one though, was a whopper. Previously, Nash had tried to tell the Police how to do their job. He ... More >>
On The Keen-Minshull Fallout, And The Zombie Revival Of National Standards
Monday, 27 March 2023, 11:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Oh, the irony. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has made a career out of inciting public hostility against the trans community, only to find herself on the receiving end of public hostility at her Auckland rally. In a further case of karmic justice, the ... More >>
On The Keen-Minshull Visit
Friday, 24 March 2023, 10:25 am | Gordon Campbell
After threatening Prime Minister Chris Hipkins of consequences if he dared to bar her entry, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has been given her visa, regardless. This will enable her to hold rallies in Auckland and Wellington this weekend, and spread her ... More >>
On How Similar Vladimir Putin Is To George W. Bush
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 11:22 am | Gordon Campbell
Looking back through the names of our Police Ministers down the years, the job has either been done by once or future party Bigfoots – Syd Holland, Richard Prebble, Judith Collins, Chris Hipkins – or by far lesser lights like Keith Allen, Frank ... More >>
On Firing Stuart Nash, Plus A Music Playlist
Friday, 17 March 2023, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Here’s an analogy for the Stuart Nash saga. If people are to be forgiven for their sins, Catholic dogma requires two factors to be present. There has to be a sincere act of confession about what has been done, but also a sincere act of contrition, ... More >>
On The Hipkins Cutbacks, And The Major Saudi/Iran Deal
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 11:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Most days, Chris Hipkins and James Shaw seem a bit like the Seals and Crofts of the centre-left: Earnest, inoffensive, and capable of quite nice harmonies at times. They blow gently through the jasmine in your mind, but you know they’re never going ... More >>
On AUKUS And Australia’s Decision On Nuclear Subs
Monday, 13 March 2023, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
China may well regard Taiwan as a renegade province. Yet the invasion of Taiwan - a s the Australian economist and commentator John Quiggin points out – would pose massive challenges for the forces or Xi Jinping. Basically, sea-borne invasions ... More >>
On Using The Trade Weapon Against China
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
Yikes. First Rob Campbell, now Steve Maharey . It seems we are going to fire – or expect public self-flagellation –from every chair of a Crown agency that ever dares to express a “political” opinion about a serious policy matter. What does ... More >>
On Childcare As An Election Bribe
Monday, 6 March 2023, 12:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
Down the years, centre-right parties have always found male voters to be receptive to a mix of hard-line economic politics and harsh stances on welfare. But women voters? Not so much. Therefore, with a possible National/ACT government now bidding to be ... More >>
On Childcare As An Election Bribe
Monday, 6 March 2023, 12:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Down the years, centre-right parties have always found male voters to be receptive to a mix of hard-line economic politics and harsh stances on welfare. But women voters? Not so much. Therefore, with a possible National/ACT government now bidding to be ... More >>
On The Sacking Of Rob Campbell
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Unfortunately, truth was not a defence available to Rob Campbell. He will now be replaced as chair of Te Whatu Ora, the organisation set up to run the public health system after the scrapping of the 19 district health boards. The claims that the ... More >>
On National’s “Do Nothing” Alternative To Three Waters
Monday, 27 February 2023, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
There are sound economic reasons (and equally good reasons to do with social equality) why the Three Waters scheme would centralise water management into four separate bodies - rather than leave the whole issue sitting in the laps of the 78 local, regional ... More >>
On The Mauling Of Maureen Pugh
Thursday, 23 February 2023, 2:52 pm | Gordon Campbell
National MP Maureen Pugh’s claim that the jury is still out on human-induced climate change – and her rapid conversion to the opposite POV – has been a sight to behold. As Guyon Espiner said on RNZ, Pugh’s retraction looked like a hostage video. Hmm. ... More >>
On How The US Supreme Court Could Ruin The Internet
Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 1:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
For obvious reasons, we’ve all been a bit cyclone-fixated this past week, while the rest of the world has kept ticking over regardless. For example: There have been more protests by indigenous rural communities in Peru against a coup that’s been ... More >>
On Disaster Politics
Friday, 17 February 2023, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Most of us have been the CEOs of our own lives for long enough to realise that Cyclone Gabrielle has done a massive amount of destruction that will be very expensive to fix. Some people have lost everything. Extensive damage has been done to roads, houses, ... More >>
On The Protests Inside Israel
Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 12:02 pm | Gordon Campbell
This week in Jerusalem, about 100,000 Israelis took to the streets to demonstrate against plans by the recently elected coalition government of Benjamin “ Bibi” Netanyahu to reduce the power and independence of the judiciary. If Netanyahu and ... More >>
On Why We’re Facing Fewer, More Intense, Cyclones In Future
Monday, 13 February 2023, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
As Cyclone Gabrielle leaves its mark on New Zealand, there are still limits on what the scientific research can say definitively about how climate change will affect future cyclonic activity in the South Pacific. For the past decade or more, the research ... More >>
On National’s Selling Of Its “Social Investment” Policy
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
There’s a 19th century flavour to National’s “social investment” strategy, in that it aims to seek capital from philanthropists and charitable organisations – some of them having their own religious agendas- to fund and deliver the provision ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Extending The Fuel/public Transport Subsidies
Thursday, 2 February 2023, 1:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
As PM Chris Hipkins says, it’s a “no brainer” to extend the fuel tax cut, half price public subsidy and the cut to the road user levy until mid-year. A no braoner if the prime purpose is to ease the burden on people struggling to cope with ... More >>
