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G Campbell: A Fairly Thorough Analysis of the FTA
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 3:55 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 >>
Election 08: Looking for Labour’s laggards
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 2:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
Labour has won the popular vote in eight of the last twelve elections, Michael Cullen reminded the troops at last weekend’s Labour Party conference, in a little motivational aside. Good effort, can be done again etc. The first prize for the winner this year ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Interviews Tariana Turia
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 2:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
Under MMP, small parties are assumed to be niche players with clearly defined identities - but even in a small caucus of MPs, a diversity of personalities and ideological hues will co-exist. If nothing else, the mixture adds volatility to the negotiations, ... More >>
Okkervil River: Staying Stupid, Keeping Sane
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 5:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Around 2am after a triumphant gig in March at the San Francisco Bath House, Okkervil River’s lead singer Will Sheff was walking the block or so up Cuba St back to his hotel when he ran into a young woman, staggering, blind drunk. As Sheff tried to ... More >>
West Memphis Three (Part II): Fearing The Best
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 3:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
Somehow, the kids are always going to the dogs - envied, legislated against and rebuked by their elders. Steps need to be taken. Otherwise, next thing you know, those weird goth kids in their black clothes could be headed around your way to drink ... More >>
Breakthrough for the West Memphis Three
Monday, 14 April 2008, 4:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
The West Memphis Three murder case is back in court today. Gordon Campbell begins a two part overview, via an exclusive interview with Arkansas journalist Mara Leveritt, the author of the definitive book on the case. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui – The Final Chapter?
Friday, 14 September 2007, 11:43 am | Gordon Campbell
In any other circumstances, the face saving rationale that has been concocted to enable the SIS to rationalise its backdown on the Ahmed Zaoui case would be infuriating, but hey, winners can afford to be generous. More >>
Gordon Campbell: The New Immigration Bill
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
With the unveiling of the new Immigration Bill yesterday, we finally got to see what the Clark government has learned from the Ahmed Zaoui affair : absolutely nothing. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui - the Algerian connection
Friday, 3 August 2007, 11:19 am | Gordon Campbell
The headline ‘Top Al Qaeda Member Surrenders’ in Wednesday’s Herald certainly suggested the forces of freedom had landed a big fish this time, but well, no….not exactly. More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Special Advocates' Dilemma
Monday, 30 July 2007, 12:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Like the Weasley twins in the Harry Potter saga, the special advocates appointed to the Zaoui review are the wild card element in the proceedings. Their role verges on the absurd. They are appointed by the Crown, but only in order to oppose the Crown ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Aftermath In Europe
Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 12:32 am | Gordon Campbell
To the critics of Ahmed Zaoui, his convictions in Europe are a knock-down argument. The man has been convicted in Belgium and France - and that’s the end of it. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui - How It Ends
Monday, 23 July 2007, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
The Zaoui hearing is now in recess, for the entire week. Last week, SIS Inspector-General Paul Neazor heard from the two most important Zaoui defence witnesses. Namely, Professor George Joffe, the leading expert in North Africa studies from Cambridge University ... More >>
Zaoui – Security, Paranoia, and Immigration
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:10 am | Gordon Campbell
It seems a lifetime ago, but Helen Clark came to power in 1999 armed with a fresh new vision for Defence, based on Derek Quigley’s “ Defence Beyond 2000” document. In brief, that new framework envisaged a New Zealand stance that would be less subservient ... More >>
The Zaoui Case - Injustice On The Cheap
Monday, 16 July 2007, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell writes: The Police Complaints Authority, the Ombudsman’s Office etc… all have obvious problems - underfunded, under-resourced, overlooked. Even by these standards, the Office of the SIS Inspector-General is a special case... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui’s beliefs
Thursday, 12 July 2007, 12:33 am | Gordon Campbell
OK, so you’re a pacifist who believes that killing is never justified, someone once asked Joan Baez. But what if you and the kids were driving in a car at speed around the corner on a narrow mountain road, and what if an old lady who couldn’t ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui in the 1990s, and since
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 12:51 am | Gordon Campbell
The way the SIS portrays the world in their annual reports, al Qaeda are not the micro-managers of world terrorism any more – they’re more like its aspirational brand leaders. Terrorist strikes are no longer being directed from some cave in the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui Review Gets Underway
Monday, 9 July 2007, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
Today, five and a half years after Ahmed Zaoui arrived in New Zealand, the risk security certificate issued against him by the SIS will begin to be reviewed by SIS Inspector-General Paul Neazor. More >>
Gordon Campbell – Bruce Jesson Lecture
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 1:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
Good evening, thanks for coming. My name is Gordon Campbell, and it is my privilege tonight to present this annual lecture which, as you know, is intended to honour the life and works of Bruce Jesson. As much as anything, it was the deeds of politicians ... More >>
