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Counting The Ways Auckland Was Failed By Its Mayor
Monday, 30 January 2023, 12:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
In some alternative universe, Auckland mayor Efeso Collins readily grasped the scale of Friday’s deluge, and quickly made the emergency declaration that enabled central government to immediately throw its resources behind the rescue and remediation effort. More >>
Counting The Ways Auckland Was Failed By Its Mayor
Monday, 30 January 2023, 12:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
In some alternative universe, Auckland mayor Efeso Collins readily grasped the scale of Friday’s deluge, and quickly made the emergency declaration that enabled central government to immediately throw its resources behind the rescue and remediation effort. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Counting The Ways Auckland Was Failed By Its Mayor
Monday, 30 January 2023, 12:28 pm | Gordon Campbell
In some alternative universe, Auckland mayor Efeso Collins readily grasped the scale of Friday’s deluge, and quickly made the emergency declaration that enabled central government to immediately throw its resources behind the rescue and remediation effort. More >>
On The Bad Outlook For Fuel And Transport Costs
Friday, 27 January 2023, 11:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Ok, there’s good news and bad news in this week’s inflation figures, but bad > good. Our inflation rate held steady but hey, at a level below the inflation rate in Australia. The main reason for the so/so result here? A fall in petrol prices ... More >>
On The Shrinking Of Labour’s Vision
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Labour has begun 2023 with the centre-left bloc behind in the polls and losing ground. That being so, did his colleagues choose Chris Hipkins as the replacement for Jacinda Ardern because they think he has a realistic shot at leading them to victory this ... More >>
On Ardern, Business Confidence, And The Worth Of Sanctions
Thursday, 19 January 2023, 2:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
The decision by Jacinda Ardern to end her term as Prime Minister on February 7 has come as a stunning surprise. It turns the task of a centre-left government winning re-election this year from difficult to nigh on impossible. No-one else among the ... More >>
On National’s Fraught Journey Back To The Centre
Monday, 16 January 2023, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Ever since Christopher Luxon became leader, National has adopted a “small target” strategy. This consists of offering nothing to distract the media from its focus on the government’s shortcomings and the public’s discontent with its performance. ... More >>
On The Cult Of Political Boldness
Thursday, 12 January 2023, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
The next recession is shaping up as the most predicted event since the Second Coming. While we have to take it on faith that it will arrive someday, it is hard to say when it will happen, or how great/how bad it will be if and when it ever does. This ... More >>
On Fiji’s Journey Back To The Future
Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
For wealthier New Zealanders and Australians, Fiji is just one option among many for their tourism resort experiences, poolside. Obviously, the country amounts to a lot more to the people who actually live there. It also happens to be the Pacific’s ... More >>
On Becoming A Nation Of Political Paranoids
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 1:38 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, there’s a crime wave sweeping the nation, even though the vast majority of us are not experiencing it first hand. That’s partly because the crime rates in most categories – including youth crime, and crime committed by rangatahi Maori ... More >>
On Palestine’s Christmas And A Holiday Music Playlist
Monday, 19 December 2022, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
At this time of year, nominally Christian nations are preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Last week however, the UN Human Rights Commission issued a press release condemning “the rampant Israeli settler violence and excessive ... More >>
On National’s Clueless Stance On National Super
Thursday, 15 December 2022, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
National Party leader Christopher Luxon seems to be quite a big fan of the conservative mullet – long on populist posturing at the front, but short on state support at the back. So much so that he intends to raise the eligibility age of national superannuation ... More >>
On Nursing’s Long Road To Residency
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 12:09 pm | Gordon Campbell
The reluctance to offer a direct pathway to residency to nurses never made any sense – whether that be politically, economically or in terms of the crying needs evident within the health system. Despite the glaring labour shortages in public health, ... More >>
On Steps To Reduce The Racing Industry’s Cruelty
Monday, 12 December 2022, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
In the season for humans to be merry, here’s some good news for the animals. In a major animal welfare move, the British Horse Racing Authority has decided that as from 9 January 2023, British jockeys will no longer be allowed to use whips in ... More >>
On The TVNZ/RNZ Merger Battles
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
When the baubles of office got handed out last time around, it is hard to understand why anyone picked Willie Jackson to be the ideal person to explain and defend the TVNZ/RNZ merger. For years and well before last Sunday’s fractious Q&A ... More >>
On Ukraine’s Prospects
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 3:03 pm | Gordon Campbell
So the government has (a) backed down over the entrenchment of water management, thus enabling a future centre right government to privatise a key essential of life via a simple majority, as readily as any elected government can change the tax rate, ... More >>
On Why The SIS Need Operational Ground Rules
Friday, 2 December 2022, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
This is bad, right? Apparently the SIS used its powers illegally when it raided journalist Nicky Hager’s cell phone and extracted information that still failed to identify one of the key sources for Hager’s 2011 book Other People’s Wars. ... More >>
On The Gaslighting About Inflation
Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 10:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, we’re going to need to have a recession next year in order to curb our wild spending habits and bring inflation under control. According to some economists, we’ve all been spending our hefty wage rises so freely that up to 50,000 of us ... More >>
On Entrenchment, And Being ‘Soft On Crime’
Monday, 28 November 2022, 2:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Good grief. Is it really a grave misuse of power to entrench safeguards against the irreversible sale of key public assets? Hardly. If this country has learned anything over the past 40 years, it should be that New Zealand has suffered lasting economic ... More >>
On The Centre-right’s Internal Ructions
Thursday, 24 November 2022, 10:58 am | Gordon Campbell
For donkey’s years, political commentary has been all about the binaries: left/right, Labour/National, government/opposition, she said/he said. Yet currently, a lot of the fascinating conflict is occurring amidst the centre-right. That’s because National, ... More >>
