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On The Perils Of Israel’s War Fever

Thursday, 3 October 2024, 12:25 pm | Gordon Campbell

Israel seems on the brink of achieving the war with Iran that Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying all year to provoke. Until now, Iran had not replied in kind to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria, and its assassinations More >>

On The Dunedin Hospital Fiasco

Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 12:01 pm | Gordon Campbell

Finance Minister Nicola Willis was still insisting this morning that Dunedin’s promised new hospital project has gone “ off track” and that we all “need to be sensible.” So let's be sensible - the increase in costs has been the absolutely More >>

On The Government’s Bizarre Hostility To A Capital Gains Tax

Thursday, 26 September 2024, 12:11 pm | Gordon Campbell

Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in NZ has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Over the past three decades institutions and mainstream economists have all treated our lack of a capital gains tax as a globally unusual flaw in our tax ... More >>

On Nicola Willis’ Perverse Hostility To Working From Home

Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell

Work-in-the-office mandates? Hell yes, Finance Minister Nicola Willis is all for them. Given half the chance, she believes, “some people but not all” will just skive off, otherwise. Willis is happy to barge in and tell departmental heads how ... More >>

On New Zealand’s Timid Reluctance To Tax The Rich

Thursday, 19 September 2024, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell

In one respect at least, New Zealand appears to be the Monaco of the South Pacific. Our wealthy pay low income taxes, face no significant tax on their capital gains, and there is no wealth tax at all. If you were rich, why live anywhere else? More >>

Gordon Campbell On ACT’s Plans To Strip Away The Rights Of Gig Economy Workers

Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 12:38 pm | Gordon Campbell

The ways the ACT Party are aiming to redraw the lines between being an employee and being a contractor will set back the clock, and reduce the ability of workers to organise collectively. In all parts of the gig economy, ACT wants to individualise More >>

Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive

Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:53 am | Gordon Campbell

Nice as consensus sounds, the passion for it applies only to an agenda of the coalition government’s own choosing. More >>

Gordon Campbell On The Mindset Driving The Crisis In Public Health

Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:52 am | Gordon Campbell

Largely because of the financial crisis in GP practice, fewer medical students are choosing GP primary care as a career option. These problems have been decades in the making, but the response by the coalition government has been particularly abysmal. More >>

Gordon Campbell On Cricket’s Betrayal Of Afghan Women And Girls

Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:52 am | Gordon Campbell

What fresh horrors does the Taliban government have to inflict on women and girls before New Zealand will decide not to play cricket with Afghanistan’s national team? Does Cricket New Zealand think that the ICC should recognise an Afghan women’s ... More >>

On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine On The Treaty

Thursday, 12 September 2024, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell

This past week has seen the coalition of chaos in fully dysfunctional mode. In the last six days, ACT and NZF have had two strikingly different responses to two strikingly similar problems in two key sectors of the economy: supermarkets and energy companies. More >>

Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad Faith

Tuesday, 10 September 2024, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell

Almost a year on, National's campaign trail promises “to reduce the cost of living, restore law and order and improve our schools and healthcare” haven’t worn very well, have they? More >>

Gordon Campbell On How "fast Track" Steamrolls The Public Good

Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 12:14 pm | Gordon Campbell

New Zealand has a habit of creating official posts – the Overseas Investment Office, the Banking Ombudsman, the Grocery Commissioner – as a sop to public concerns, but where the terms of reference guarantee that such posts won't interfere unduly ... More >>

Gordon Campbell On The Plague Of The Seymourites

Thursday, 22 August 2024, 1:27 pm | Gordon Campbell

David Seymour is like one of those American Televangelists. He is now building his own temple of bureaucracy...and it shall be known as the Ministry of Regulation and many regulations previously passed to protect the consumer, environment, and the More >>

Gordon Campbell On Why Workers Get Treated As Disposable

Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell

National is willing to waste time and money on supporting Act's Treaty Bill's first reading and sending it to a select committee – where more time and money will be wasted on public submissions and on committee hearings that are bound to receive ... More >>

On ACT’s Takeover Of The Government Agenda

Thursday, 15 August 2024, 1:14 pm | Gordon Campbell

The ACT Party won only 8.6% of the vote last year, so how come it seems to be driving about 75% of the government’s agenda? It helps ACT’s cause that Christopher Luxon is so incompetent, and such a pushover. Earlier this week, Luxon just couldn’t ... More >>

On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor

Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 1:39 pm | Gordon Campbell

For the past 50 years, the centre-right has been using beneficiaries as a political punching bag. But now unemployment is at a three high and rising, helped along by the government’s deliberately trashing the jobs of thousands of public servants. More >>

On Making Profits From The Ferries Fiasco

Friday, 9 August 2024, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has taken a ton of flak for not having a Plan B in place before she cancelled Kiwirail’s contract for the new Cook Strait ferries. Yet maybe her own Plan A all along has been to use a public private partnership (PPP) ... More >>

On Making Profits By Trashing Consumer Protections

Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell

The government has once again chosen to put the profits of business ahead of what the public health research is telling us. Under pressure from the giant Danone multinational, New Zealand has backed out of signing a proposed Trans-Tasman labelling standard ... More >>

On Who’s Making Gold From The Olympics

Monday, 5 August 2024, 2:28 pm | Gordon Campbell

No-one (apart from advertisers perhaps) seems to make much money out of doing business with the IOC. France will have spent $8.2 billion to stage the Olympics, making it the sixth costliest Games of all time. More >>

On The Government Crusade To Degrade The Public Health System

Thursday, 1 August 2024, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell

If anything finally convinces voters that the Luxon government is a deadly risk to life and limb, it will be the damage it is doing to the public health system. There is no sign the government recognises the realities we face, let alone has a response ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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