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Campbell on the latest Peters Saga (28 Aug 2008)
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 5:45 pm | Gordon Campbell
How ironic that Helen Clark chose in 2005 to create a governing bloc with Winston Peters for reasons of stability, to ensure that her government would run its full course. Serves her right, really. More >>
Gordon Campbell On the ETS And The Greens
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
So the Greens’ long, slow striptease over the Emissions Trading Scheme has now come to an end, with the party being granted a G-string of government concessions and commitments, in return for its support. The concessions are good in themselves. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews PM's Presser - 25 Aug 08
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Like the gong starting round one, Newstalk ZB’s Barry Soper got in the first shot – what’s the election date ? – but no one at Prime Minister Helen Clark’s first press conference in weeks expected a substantive reply, and we didn’t get ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s plans for roads
Monday, 25 August 2008, 1:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
Interesting that the National Party is seriously regarding the Australian experience with public private partnerships (PPPs) as providing a precedent for using PPPs to fund schools and hospitals in this country. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Clark briefing paper, Obama VP
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 3:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Like most peeks behind the diplomatic curtain, the gaffe about the Australian briefing paper on Helen Clark was amusing, but instructive. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Yadegary Decision
Friday, 15 August 2008, 3:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
While the release on bail of the Iranian Christian convert Thomas Yadegary is a victory in the short term – and a substantial relief for Yadegary himself – it may be the last gasp of judicial common sense before the Immigration Bill – as the Green ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Arts Funding Policy
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 3:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
Some people, including quite a few artists, find the very notion of state funding of the arts a hard one to embrace. For one thing, there’s a certain lack of romance involved An artist starving in a garret is a more heroic image ( at least, until ... More >>
National’s welfare policy, Tauranga and Georgia
Monday, 11 August 2008, 1:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Will John Key’s policy announcement on welfare this afternoon do much to resolve the problems it claims to address? More >>
National’s welfare policy, Tauranga and Georgia
Monday, 11 August 2008, 12:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Will John Key’s policy announcement on welfare this afternoon do much to resolve the problems it claims to address? More >>
Campbell on the ethics of taping politicians
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Pretty doggedly, the mainstream media have stuck to their guns and kept the storyline on the secret tapes fiasco firmly focused where the National Party would prefer it to be – on Who Taped It, rather than (a) what is on the tapes or (b) what such ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews The PM's Presser 4 Aug 08
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Normally the Prime Minister’s press conference virtually sets the political agenda for the early part of the week but not this time. Bill English’s own goal at the National Party annual conference swept everything else aside. You can read the full ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s economic vision
Monday, 4 August 2008, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Chances are, if someone said they were planning to raid their children’s piggy banks in order to pay the rent – mainly because they just couldn’t resist the impulse to spend the rent money down at the TAB - we wouldn’t be applauding them, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Olympics
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 3:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, it surfaced that Helen Clark has signed up to an Amnesty International protest over capital punishment in China. When talen together with the fact that Clark is not joining other heads of state ( such as George Bush or Sarkozy) in Beijing, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews The PM's Presser July 29
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 9:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Late on Monday July 29th, means that its time for the Prime Minister’s weekly post Cabinet press conference. How late the conference is scheduled is in itself a vehicle for spin conjecture. If it comes early (3:30 to 4 ish ) this is taken to mean that ... More >>
Winners and Losers In The Winston Peters saga
Monday, 28 July 2008, 1:57 pm | Gordon Campbell
At half time in the Winston Peters latest scandal – which seems to involve several money trails complex enough to merit inclusion in the Winebox - likely winners are beginning to emerge. And the main beneficiary is undoubtedly….the much reviled ... More >>
Campbell on National’s Industrial Relations Policy
Friday, 25 July 2008, 2:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
The surprising thing about the National Party’s industrial relations policy is not that it’s only a bare outline – these days, even a one page summary of anything that National plans to do in government counts as a revelation. Nor is it surprising ... More >>
Campbell on the Killing of Local Manufacturing
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 1:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
Take my word on this, but the government’s omnibus tax bill that got its first reading last night contains some pretty startling measures. One of its main features was an incentive for New Zealand firms to re-locate their manufacturing base offshore ... More >>
Select Committee handling of the Immigration Bill
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 9:52 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the Select Committee's handling of the Immigration Bill Click for big version More >>
Gordon Campbell Talks To Jim Anderton
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 3:34 pm | Gordon Campbell
It is unusual to talk about a 70 year old in terms of untapped potential, but the aura of ‘what might have been’ will always hang over Jim Anderton’s career. New Zealand never got the full benefit of his skills – and conversely, Anderton ... More >>
Immigration, health workers, Obama Veepstakes
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 5:19 pm | Gordon Campbell
Great to see that the various players in the blogosphere – from the usual great stuff by No Right Turn, to the new website started by T-Rex to oppose the Bill and the Standard, to name a few– are coming together to campaign against Labour’s ... More >>
