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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 >>
Campbell: Young Doctors Cause Cunliffe Headache
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 4:25 pm | Gordon Campbell
So far, Health Minister David Cunliffe has talked so tough on the young doctors’ pay dispute that any subsequent concession will now look like capitulation. More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Broadband Bonanza
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 3:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
John Key’s $1.5 billion boost for broadband is his first major policy announcement that isn’t an endorsement of existing Labour practice ( interest free student loans etc) or a dog bone and whistle ( boot camps for young offenders) to a niche support ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Iran - The New Buddy of the US?
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 12:20 am | Gordon Campbell
To date, media coverage of the Iraq war has barely touched on its startling new phase - namely, the convergence of interests between Iran and the US. This odd relationship was played out in last month’s onslaught by US forces and Maliki government troops ... More >>
For relatives, the rules could be relative
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 4:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Good point here from National Party immigration spokesperson Lockwood Smith, who says the Immigration Service flap involving chief executive Mary-Anne Thompson will do nothing to boost public confidence More >>
Gordon Campbell - Clinton’s Last Stand
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 1:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
OK, in the Pennsylvania vote, Hillary Clinton should still get home by between 5 and 10 points – which would mean a continuation of the stalemate. Anything more gives her the big victory she needs – and anything less continues her eclipse. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Fight For Your Right To PRT
Friday, 18 April 2008, 4:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
Helen Clark successfully kept New Zealand out of Iraq, but her policy in Afghanistan – the other front in the Bush war on terrorism – is on track to become more hazardous until the Afghan elections, at least. Cleverly, New Zealand managed to tuck its PRT ... More >>
Beijing Ka-Ching! An Analysis of the FTA
Friday, 18 April 2008, 1:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
Politically, the NZ/China Free Trade Agreement has joined the National Party, corporate New Zealand and the media in the same cheering squad for a Government initiative. Mighty rare, and a political triumph by any definition. Yet until the business is ... More >>
