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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 >>
Gordon Campbell IV's Girl Talk, About Copyright
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Gregg Gillis is Girl Talk – a 27 year old former biomedical engineer from Pittsburgh who used to research such things the effect on light on human circadian rhythms, in order to cure the symptoms of jetlag. These days, Gillis has his own jetlag to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Obama's closing of Guantanamo
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Barack Obama’s executive order on interrogation stipulates that the US must close its black detention sites, cease using torture in the interrogation of terrorism suspects, stop the process of rendition to countries that torture, and close the ... More >>
The Dividing Line Between PR and News Disappears
Friday, 23 January 2009, 5:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell asks whether TVNZ and TV3 should be tutoring the spin merchants More >>
Obama’s Debt To Martin Luther King's Legacy
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
As Barack Obama wakes up for the first time as President of the United States, he is starting out from a pretty re-assuring position : sky high approval ratings, a huge majority professing they will have patience with him in waiting for solutions, ... More >>
On The Gaza Ceasefire, And Its Aftermath
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 12:51 pm | Gordon Campbell
The carnage in Gaza has ended in a unilateral ceasefire. Israel has called a halt to its blitzkrieg because of the imminent Obama inauguration, and because the next military phase would have involved difficult street fighting in Gaza City, which ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: NZ's Gaza Timidity & Goodbye Bush
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
As the slaughter in Gaza continues, the timidity of the New Zealand reaction to the 17 day Israeli offensive becomes even more …well, offensive. To date, Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s response has had two main themes (a) New Zealand is not taking ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Israel’s offensive in Gaza
Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 7:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Collective punishment is a war crime under section 33 of the Geneva Convention, and New Zealand is one of the 194 signatory countries to that Convention. Not that this has meant very much to us in recent weeks and months, as it applies to Israel’s ... More >>
Campbell: 2008, and a holiday beyond politics
Monday, 22 December 2008, 3:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
Over the next fortnight or so, the mainstream media will be providing Year in Review space fillers aplenty, so enough already for the Barack Obama/John Key recaps, and lets all try to forget that Sarah Palin and Owen Glenn ever existed… More >>
New Zealand needs to change tack on Fiji
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
In every crisis there is an opportunity, and Commodore Bainimarama has given the new National-led government the chance to rescue New Zealand from the dead end policy stance of the Clark government. Later today, we will find out whether Foreign Affairs ... More >>
Transaction Package and Paid Police Spies
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:34 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell explores the National-led Government's transaction package. Also, with PM John Key ruling out an inquiry into police paying spies to infiltrate protest groups, complainants can now only seek recourse to the Police Complaints Authority. More >>
National's 'Failure To Communicate'
Saturday, 13 December 2008, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Any honeymoon the new government might have hoped to enjoy has been blown away by its pre-Christmas blitz on taxation, industrial relations, bail, and education issues. Bills have been put into urgency before they even had proper names, or before the ... More >>
Campbell: Firing At Will And Firing Up Broadband
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the 90 day ‘fire at will’ legislation, and on the faster broadband plan. More >>
Gordon Campbell IV's Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Monday, 8 December 2008, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell talks to Britain’s foremost legal authority about human rights in the post 9/11 world, and the war in Iraq. More >>
