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On New Zealand’s Surrender To The US, Plus A Playlist
Thursday, 2 June 2022, 10:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Like a unicorn, New Zealand’s independent foreign policy is a fabulous creature – highly treasured, rarely seen but credited with magical healing powers. Some say that if judiciously applied, it could even bring peace between the warring parties ... More >>
On Regulating Guns And Supermarkets
Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Thanks to decades of free market zealots opposed on principle to sensible regulation… We’re now faced with a supermarket duopoly so entrenched that any prospective new entrant would have to think twice before taking them on. Even if they did, it might ... More >>
On The Panic In The Pacific Over China
Friday, 27 May 2022, 1:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
For years, it has been no secret that China wants closer security and trade ties with the small nations of the Pacific region. All part of Beijing’s self-image as a global superpower. To that end this week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi embarked ... More >>
On The Criminalising Of Rap Music
Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
For black youth in America, there can be only three ways out of the ghetto: athletics, music or drug dealing. And for every individual who succeeds in making it out, dozens more attach themselves to their celebrity crews in order to bask in the reflected ... More >>
On The Lessons From Australia’s Election
Monday, 23 May 2022, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Australia’s new PM Anthony Albanese faces an obvious dilemma, barely before he gets his feet under the desk. Australia is the world’s leading exporter of coal. Will the new Labor government prioritise the jobs for Queensland/NSW workers in its ... More >>
On Budget 2022
Friday, 20 May 2022, 9:49 am | Gordon Campbell
At base, the political biffo back and forth on the merits of Budget 2022 comes down to only one thing. Who is the better manager of the economy and better steward of social wellbeing – National or Labour? In its own quiet way, the Treasury has buried ... More >>
On The Australian Election Toss-up
Wednesday, 18 May 2022, 12:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
The foibles of the Aussie electoral system are pretty well-known. The Lucky Country doesn’t have proportional representation. Voting for everyone over 18 is compulsory, but within a preferential system. This means that in the relatively few key seats ... More >>
On The Emissions Reduction Plan Non-Event
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, the attempt to take the politics out of climate change has itself been a political decision, and one meant to remove much of the heat from the global warming issue before next year’s election. What we got from yesterday’s $2.9 billion ... More >>
On Rabuka’s Possible Return In Fiji
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 12:51 pm | Gordon Campbell
Fiji signed onto China’s Belt and Road initiative in 2018, along with a separate agreement on economic co-operation and aid. Yet it took the recent security deal between China and the Solomon Islands to get the belated attention of the US and ... More >>
On The Youth Crime Furore
Monday, 9 May 2022, 12:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
So far, the excited media response to the spike in “ram-raid” incidents is being countered by evidence that in reality, youth crime is steeply in decline, and has been so for much of the past decade. Who knew? Perhaps that’s the real issue here. ... More >>
On Abortion Rights
Thursday, 5 May 2022, 11:23 am | Gordon Campbell
So a Supreme Court stacked with ideologues selected by Donald Trump is about to make an ideological decision to ban the legal right of American women to an abortion. In their infinite wisdom, the US courts have decided that the government cannot force ... More >>
On Political Can-kicking, And The “Louie Louie” Saga
Monday, 2 May 2022, 11:20 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the more infuriating aspects of the current political debate is the way the National Party says it would be more rigorous, and more thriftily efficient in running social programmes that - left to its own devices – a National government would ... More >>
On Parker’s Tax Plan And Musk’s Twitter Purchase
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
Such is our devotion to the ordinary Kiwi battler, we ruthlessly tax the wages they earn and the stuff they buy, while letting people who amass wealth from speculative investment (and stash it in trusts) to go on their merry way, largely untroubled ... More >>
On The Tame Interview, And Macron’s Endless Challenges
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
National truly is the party of aspiration. Any centre-right voter who watched their champion’s trainwreck interview with Jack Tame on last Sunday’s Q & A programme would have to conclude that if Christopher Luxon can lead National to victory ... More >>
On Ukraine Virtue Signalling, And Our Inflation Spike
Friday, 22 April 2022, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Inflation at 6.9% is a bad sign of the rising cost of living, and hidden within the headline numbers are some even grislier figures. As CTU economist Craig Renney has pointed out: Food prices rose nearly 7%, led by fruit and vegetables which rose ... More >>
On The MIQ Memo And France’s Elections
Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
One word has largely been missing from the coverage of the MoH advice about MIQ: Omicron. The relevant memo was written in November. It was referring to the Delta outbreak and to the relative incidence of the Delta variant in the community as opposed ... More >>
On The MIQ Memo And France’s Elections
Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
One word has largely been missing from the coverage of the MoH advice about MIQ: Omicron. The relevant memo was written in November. It was referring to the Delta outbreak and to the relative incidence of the Delta variant in the community as opposed ... More >>
On Gendered Perceptions In Politics
Thursday, 14 April 2022, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
In recent weeks, barely a day has gone by without Christopher Luxon demonstrating the chasm of ability that exists between the leaders of our two major political parties. When his latest gaffe (on public transport funding) was politely pointed out to him ... More >>
On Sending A Hercules Off To Europe
Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 11:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s decision to dispatch one of our ageing C-130 Hercules cargo planes to Europe for two months will – hopefully - help to get essential supplies and ammunition closer to where Ukraine’s people and their armed forces can access them. ... More >>
On Virtue Signalling About Ukraine
Monday, 11 April 2022, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Safe to say, not a single life will be saved in Ukraine if and when our Foreign Affairs select committee can ever make up its mind to summon Russian ambassador Georgii Zuev to appear before it. Under the rules of diplomatic immunity of course, Zuev ... More >>
