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National’s secrecy about its policies
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 11:24 am | Gordon Campbell
What does this sound like? A tiny group of politicians develop policy and hide it from the rest of their colleagues – all the better to unveil these policies in a way that will give the voting public the least possible time and opportunity to ... More >>
WTF: Gordon Campbell on Obama’s Speech
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 12:20 am | Gordon Campbell
If you haven’t yet read Barack Obama’s speech a couple of months ago on race, it can be accessed here. More >>
Campbell talks Budget fallout with Michael Cullen
Friday, 23 May 2008, 4:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Labour can argue loud and long all it likes about its sundry achievements during its eight and half years in office – the longest economic boom since WWII, low unemployment rates not seen in decades, increases in average household incomes, cheaper ... More >>
Cullen's Cannily Constructed Budget
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 3:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
In better times, this cannily structured Budget would have been a circuit breaker for Labour - but given the current levels of public disenchantment with the Government More >>
The risks of Exxon-Mobil in New Zealand waters
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 6:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
Exxon-Mobil are the elephant in the room that the Government refuses to confront, as it throws open the ecologically vulnerable Great South Basin region to oil exploration and exploitation. Currently, New Zealand does not have an oceans policy, despite ... More >>
WTF: Beating up on Goff
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Whenever the media whines in future about politicians refusing to answer their questions, Phil Goff’s interview on Alt TV is a perfect example of what can happen when they do : a beat-up of monumental proportions, not even remotely supported by what was ... More >>
WTF: Brady needs to inquire into Immigration Bill
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 11:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Minister of Immigration Clayton Cosgrove – Auditor-General Kevin Brady will soon be snuffling through his department More >>
New Zealand’s illegal trade in North Africa
Monday, 19 May 2008, 2:33 pm | Gordon Campbell
On May 25, a Turkish owned ship called the Cake is due at Lyttleton harbour, and similar port records show the same ship is due in Napier between 3-5 June. More >>
Security Risks – Who Vetted Thompson?
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
The question marks now hanging over the Ph.D of Immigration chief executive Mary-Anne Thompson – and the failure of the SIS security checks to detect anything wrong about her credentials during her decade long rise to the upper echelons of the public ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Interviews Russel Norman
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 2:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
Al Gore’s climate change made saving the planet look like such a cool lifestyle option - but the bills have now begun to arrive, and that’s taking some of the sheen off being green. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Terry Hicks - A Father's Story
Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:02 am | Gordon Campbell
The saga of David Hicks, Australia’s most controversial figure in the war on terrorism, keeps on getting stranger. More >>
WTF – May 8 2008: Sealord, Tax Cuts, Retirement
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 2:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
1. Sealord, not Law’ed. How ironic that Sealord – half owned by Maori business interests - was being denounced on RNZ this morning by foreign human rights agencies for co-exploiting the fisheries resources of the indigenous people of Western Sahara. ... More >>
Clinton's Last Chance To Go Gracefully
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Hillary has been talking tough (and sounding hollow) ever since the Indiana/North Carolina primaries results came in yesterday, but that’s only to convince prospective donors that she’s still viable. Really, its all over at last. Barack Obama has ... More >>
Should Norway be the new template for China FTA
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 5:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
The China FTA photo ops are over. Parliament now has to bed in over the next few months to consider the FTA deal - and if we’re crazily in luck, it may even try to weigh the likely costs against the possible benefits. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Back on Track
Monday, 5 May 2008, 2:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Today’s $665 million buy-back of the rail network from the Australian firm Toll Holdings is a genuine cause for celebration. For years, it seemed the privatisation of key assets carried out at the height of the 1980s market mania was irreversible. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell interviews Rodney Hide
Friday, 2 May 2008, 1:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
Act Party leader Rodney Hide has always been something of a poltergeist rattling around on the centre right of the political spectrum – making noise and kind of friendly ( except when he isn’t ) but without ever conveying the sense that he’s ... More >>
Waihopai and the Troublesome Priest
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 12:29 am | Gordon Campbell
Interesting headline in the NZ Herald this morning about the Waihopai spy base invasion : “ Spy Base Priest’s History of Trouble…” In fact, the only ‘trouble” the Herald can dig up on Dominican priest Peter Murnane is that he took in the Algerian ... More >>
Campbell: System stacked against Baldock petition
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 2:44 pm | Gordon Campbell
Kiwi Party leader Larry Baldock made a good point on RNZ this morning about the unfair hurdles facing anyone who wants to bring a Citizens Initiated Referendum in this country. Yesterday, the organisers of the petition for a referendum against ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: On The Listener, past and present
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 3:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
In the same spirit of allowing everyone to express a view, let me just say that IMHO – as someone who worked on the Listener before and during Pamela Stirling’s time as editor More >>
Campbell: US Trade Expert Finds Fishhooks in FTA
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:59 am | Gordon Campbell
While media coverage of the China-NZ Free Trade Agreement has focused almost entirely on the possible dollar gains, scant attention has been paid to the equally valid exposure of New Zealand to compensation claims - should any NZ government be so bold ... More >>
