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On The Aussie Citizenship Changes
Monday, 24 April 2023, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
In all likelihood, Anthony Albanese and Chris Hipkins have quite different readings of the pathway to citizenship that has just been opened up for Kiwis who have lived in Australia for the past four years, or more. To New Zealanders, a historical wrong ... More >>
On China’s Big New Power Troika
Thursday, 20 April 2023, 11:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Rather than run the risk (and suffer the indignity) of putting Rupert Murdoch on the witness stand, Fox News has paid the $US788 million required to get Dominion to drop its defamation suit. A similar settlement will probably be needed to pay ... More >>
On The Morning After Three Waters
Monday, 17 April 2023, 1:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, local democracy has been saved from the brutal tyranny of centralised water reform. One would like to think that spirited debate is now breaking out in the nation’s kitchens and cafes about the best ways of funding water infrastructure ... More >>
On Auckland’s Ghastly Mayor, And The Water Reforms
Friday, 14 April 2023, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
By crikey, once Wayne Brown finds out who was in charge of the city during Auckland’s anniversary foods, I bet they’ll cop an earful. So far, Brown’s reaction to former Police Commissioner Mike Bush’s 107 page review of the flood response has been ... More >>
On The Reasons For Opposing AUKUS
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
In the early 1980s, New Zealand walked out of the ANZUS pact on principle, rather than be an accomplice to nuclear war. We now seem to be heading back into being a nuclear fellow traveller again, via the AUKUS pact. This time around, we would have ... More >>
On Regulating The Love Affair Between Lobbyists And Law-makers
Wednesday, 5 April 2023, 12:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
As predicted in this column on Monday the Trump indictment has turned out (a) to hinge on New York state law 175.10 on the falsifying of business records, and in order (b) to reach the threshold of a felony this will require the falsification ... More >>
On Hiking Up Interest Rates
Monday, 3 April 2023, 11:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Elsewhere in the world, some central bankers are showing signs of re-considering the wisdom of barrelling on with the crusade against inflation. For fear that constant rate hikes may now be doing more socio-economic harm than good, there is talk in ... More >>
On Auckland’s Dysfunctional Mayor, And Air Travel Chaos
Friday, 31 March 2023, 9:44 am | Gordon Campbell
As Auckland’s cantankerous mayor stumbles from one crisis to the next, the hope is not that Wayne Brown will learn on the job – that’s almost certainly a lost cause – but that Aucklanders will manage to come together and limit the damage ... More >>
On The Banning Of Tik Tok
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
For a serial offender like Stuart Nash, it was inevitable that another skeleton would emerge from his closet, and end his ministerial career. This one though, was a whopper. Previously, Nash had tried to tell the Police how to do their job. He ... More >>
On The Keen-Minshull Fallout, And The Zombie Revival Of National Standards
Monday, 27 March 2023, 11:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Oh, the irony. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has made a career out of inciting public hostility against the trans community, only to find herself on the receiving end of public hostility at her Auckland rally. In a further case of karmic justice, the ... More >>
On The Keen-Minshull Visit
Friday, 24 March 2023, 10:25 am | Gordon Campbell
After threatening Prime Minister Chris Hipkins of consequences if he dared to bar her entry, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has been given her visa, regardless. This will enable her to hold rallies in Auckland and Wellington this weekend, and spread her ... More >>
On How Similar Vladimir Putin Is To George W. Bush
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 11:22 am | Gordon Campbell
Looking back through the names of our Police Ministers down the years, the job has either been done by once or future party Bigfoots – Syd Holland, Richard Prebble, Judith Collins, Chris Hipkins – or by far lesser lights like Keith Allen, Frank ... More >>
On Firing Stuart Nash, Plus A Music Playlist
Friday, 17 March 2023, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Here’s an analogy for the Stuart Nash saga. If people are to be forgiven for their sins, Catholic dogma requires two factors to be present. There has to be a sincere act of confession about what has been done, but also a sincere act of contrition, ... More >>
On The Hipkins Cutbacks, And The Major Saudi/Iran Deal
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 11:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Most days, Chris Hipkins and James Shaw seem a bit like the Seals and Crofts of the centre-left: Earnest, inoffensive, and capable of quite nice harmonies at times. They blow gently through the jasmine in your mind, but you know they’re never going ... More >>
On AUKUS And Australia’s Decision On Nuclear Subs
Monday, 13 March 2023, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
China may well regard Taiwan as a renegade province. Yet the invasion of Taiwan - a s the Australian economist and commentator John Quiggin points out – would pose massive challenges for the forces or Xi Jinping. Basically, sea-borne invasions ... More >>
On Using The Trade Weapon Against China
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
Yikes. First Rob Campbell, now Steve Maharey . It seems we are going to fire – or expect public self-flagellation –from every chair of a Crown agency that ever dares to express a “political” opinion about a serious policy matter. What does ... More >>
On Childcare As An Election Bribe
Monday, 6 March 2023, 12:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
Down the years, centre-right parties have always found male voters to be receptive to a mix of hard-line economic politics and harsh stances on welfare. But women voters? Not so much. Therefore, with a possible National/ACT government now bidding to be ... More >>
On Childcare As An Election Bribe
Monday, 6 March 2023, 12:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Down the years, centre-right parties have always found male voters to be receptive to a mix of hard-line economic politics and harsh stances on welfare. But women voters? Not so much. Therefore, with a possible National/ACT government now bidding to be ... More >>
On The Sacking Of Rob Campbell
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Unfortunately, truth was not a defence available to Rob Campbell. He will now be replaced as chair of Te Whatu Ora, the organisation set up to run the public health system after the scrapping of the 19 district health boards. The claims that the ... More >>
On National’s “Do Nothing” Alternative To Three Waters
Monday, 27 February 2023, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
There are sound economic reasons (and equally good reasons to do with social equality) why the Three Waters scheme would centralise water management into four separate bodies - rather than leave the whole issue sitting in the laps of the 78 local, regional ... More >>
