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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
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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 >>
Gordon Campbell on big, bad government spending
Friday, 11 July 2008, 4:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
On Wednesday, the ANZ economist Cameron Bagrie provided some economic data that –co-incisdentally, I’m sure – sought to back up the centre right argument that government spending is chronically mis-directed. Bagrie took care to point out that he wasn’t saying ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key and Immigration
Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 3:57 pm | Gordon Campbell
Some of the more excited posts on my last column queried whether I lacked the fortitude to accuse John Key of corruption over his use of Parliamentary questions on Tranzrail. Actually, I thought I’d said plainly that there was no evidence that Key had asked ... More >>
How National will deliver social services
Thursday, 3 July 2008, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
The National Party’s reluctance to reveal its policy plans passed the point of diminishing returns quite some time ago. Trying to control the way a political debate unfolds is one thing – but deception of the public is something else. More >>
John Key and Things That Come Out Wrong
Friday, 27 June 2008, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
The “ we’re a country which came peacefully together” account of New Zealand’s march to nationhood that John Key delivered yesterday on Newztalk ZB was the latest example of what’s becoming a pattern. First we have the gaffe, then everyone else’s ... More >>
What a National Government May Entail
Monday, 23 June 2008, 3:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Economic uncertainty is National’s latest rationale for why they’re http://www.stuff.co.nz/4576795a11.html not releasing their main policy positions and costings until the election campaign has virtually begun. Off hand, it is hard to think of a serious pretender to government ... More >>
Labour’s problems with the young
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 12:48 am | Gordon Campbell
The wrangle between the government and insurance industry over third party motor vehicle insurance reflects a wider problem for the Clark government – namely, its punitive stance towards young people, and first time voters. More >>
Gordon Campbell talks to Peter Dunne
Monday, 16 June 2008, 1:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
The interesting thing about Mr. Common Sense & Reliable is the body of evidence that indicates he is neither. I’m not talking about Dunne’s memorable fit of pique on election night in 2005 ….or actually I am, but only as evidence of an underlying ... More >>
Obama’s Readiness to Talk To America’s Enemies
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
Almost every other day, the US presidential race – and the place the Iraq war plays within it – manages to leave the rest of the world looking on amazed at the way the world’s only superpower conducts its rites of succession. Not to mention ... More >>
Gordon Campbell reviews Working with David
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, what did we expect? Turning to Michael Bassett for an account of the Lange years is a little like basing your understanding of Julius Caesar’s assassination on a version written by Brutus Jnr. More >>
Russel Norman’s entry, Hillary’s exit
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
As predicted on Scoop last Friday. former Green Party MP Mike Ward has done a U-turn, and will now step aside to enable Greens co- leader Russel Norman to become an MP. The process of Nandor Tanczos exiting and Norman stepping into his shoes should take ... More >>
WTF June 3 2008: Brash and the Greens
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Given the chapter and verse of Don Brash’s complicity in his own cynical re-packaging contained in Nicky Hager’s book The Hollow Men, you’d think it would be impossible to resurrect the Brash saga as a tragic fall from grace. Yet on the weekend, the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Stone, McClellan and Mike Ward
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
1. In the wake of Sharon Stone’s comments at the Cannes Film Festival about Tibet and the Dalai Lama, China’s official state news agency has branded her “the public enemy of all mankind” - an even harsher review than those she got for Basic Instinct ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Vietnam vets apology
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 10:47 am | Gordon Campbell
On compassionate grounds, the apology extended to the troops who fought in Vietnam was justified – so long as it was not extended or regarded as a re-appraisal of the morality of the conflict, which the Government has been careful not to do. For ... More >>
