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On Leaving Women Out Of The Job Creation Plans, Plus The Current Vaccine Blues
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Women workers have taken an unequal impact of the job losses caused by the pandemic but so far almost all the government’s job creation efforts have been concentrated in sectors – e.g. on “shovel ready” projects in the construction industry where ... More >>
On Why Matariki Will Be A Valuable Cultural Counterpart To Waitangi Day
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that Matariki has been added to the roster of national holidays, it is bound to become more meaningful than most of our other holiday occasions, many of which have lost much of the symbolic power they once had. For example: the religious holidays ... More >>
On The Case For Investing In Coastal Shipping
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 9:35 am | Gordon Campbell
The enduring damage done by the economic reforms of the 1980/1990s is still playing out in the communities that lost thousands of well-paid full time jobs, and with a subsequent influx of drugs, domestic violence and mental health problems. A far ... More >>
On The Climate Change Commission’s Slow Motion Response
Monday, 1 February 2021, 12:55 pm | Gordon Campbell
Good grief. An eleven to fifteen year window of adjustment to the threat from climate change is still being decried as “too ambitious” by the usual suspects: ie the farming, transport and fossil fuel sectors responsible for the vast bulk of our climate ... More >>
On The GameStop Saga, And Fox’s Bad News
Friday, 29 January 2021, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
For over a decade, the stock market in the US (and everywhere else) has been utterly detached from the lives and the wellbeing of ordinary people. During 2020 for instance, as the Covid economic recession raged and jobs were lost a rates unseen since the ... More >>
On The Risk Of Being Short Changed By Pfizer
Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Who knew that the delivery of the Covid vaccines was going to be such a headache? All the predictions had been around the likely distribution problems. Would there be enough trained vaccinators around the country, a sufficient number of medical ... More >>
On Northland’s Covid Case, And Biden’s Battle Lines
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 10:39 am | Gordon Campbell
The South African variant at the centre of the Northland case of community transmission calls for a reset of several aspects of our Covid response. Some aspects of that reset are overdue. Since the pandemic began, the debate on whether transmission can ... More >>
On The Demise Of The Tokyo Olympics
Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 10:16 am | Gordon Campbell
As the Covid vaccines roll out around the world, the Tokyo Olympics are looming as a major test of when (and whether) something akin to global normality can return – to international travel, to global tourism, to professional sport and to mass ... More >>
On How Women Are Suffering The Most From The Covid Economic Recession
Friday, 15 January 2021, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Both here and abroad, the Covid-19 economic recession has been disastrous for women workers and their families. In November, young women below 30 in particular were feeling the consequences : Of concern is the sustained deterioration in youth employment, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Why The Second Trump Impeachment Has To Proceed
Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
T o the very end, a sizeable Congressional segment of the Republican Party has been willing to defend Donald Trump no matter what he says or does, and to urge on his most violent supporters. Here for example, was Republican Congressman Mo Brooks speaking ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Excessive Secrecy Surrounding Cyber Hacks, And Some Lost Soul Legends
Monday, 11 January 2021, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
W ell, apart from the who, why and how of it, the recent hack of the Reserve Bank’s computer security defences seems crystal clear. It happened. It happened about five months or so after the computer systems at the New Zealand Stock Exchange and several ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Washington Riot And The Georgia Results
Thursday, 7 January 2021, 2:26 pm | Gordon Campbell
H ong Kong and Washington DC. On the same morning, the tyrants in power in Beijing and their counterpart in the White House have shown how they refuse to accept the legitimacy of any different points of view, and the prospect of losing power. The ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Senate Races In Georgia
Tuesday, 5 January 2021, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Hi and happy New Year. Currently, the Republicans hold a 52-48 majority in the Senate , the upper chamber of US Congress. If the Democrats can manage to win both the Senate races in Georgia tomorrow (NZ time) then vice -President Kamala Harris can cast a ... More >>
On A Few Things About The Year Gone, And The Year Ahead
Thursday, 24 December 2020, 11:50 am | Gordon Campbell
In October, the public rewarded the government for the way it has steered New Zealand through the Covid-19 crisis this year, and rightly so. The Labour-led government’s handling of the pandemic was not only the year’s top political accomplishment but ... More >>
On The Solar Winds Hack, And On Buying Bob Dylan
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 12:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
Earlier this month, the huge Solar Winds hack became public knowledge. Reportedly, the victims had been accessed over a period of months starting in March 2020 by a “sophisticated threat actor” that’s widely believed to be the same Russian ... More >>
On The Mixed Outlook For Our Covid Vaccine Supplies
Friday, 18 December 2020, 9:32 am | Gordon Campbell
As PM Jacinda Ardern explained at yesterday’s press conference , the government has signed supply contracts for delivery of four Covid-19 vaccines, in numbers sufficient (on paper at least) to provide doses not only for every New Zealander. but for those ... More >>
On Labour’s Timid Uses (so Far) Of The Power That Voters Have Given It
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Long on aims, short on delivery. Greta Thunberg is not the only person who feels that the Ardern government is better at aspirations than achievement. Once upon a time, Jacinda Ardern may have called climate change “this generation’s nuclear ... More >>
On The Royal Commission’s Report Into The Christchurch Mosque Shootings
Friday, 11 December 2020, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
For an 800 page monster, the Royal Commission report into the Christchurch shootings has proved to be a strangely weightless affair. Everyone – the Police, the PM, the security services – has apologised but (allegedly) no-one did anything wrong. ... More >>
On Werewolf's Best Music Of 2020
Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 12:02 pm | Gordon Campbell
Sure, New Zealand’s pandemic experience hasn’t been anything like the horror show it has been elsewhere. Yet the Covid anxiety levels were still high enough to undermine a lot of the creative resolutions many of us took into lockdown: read that ... More >>
On The Politics Of Why We’re Not Getting An Inquiry Into The Whakaari/White Island Disaster
Friday, 4 December 2020, 1:07 pm | Gordon Campbell
The Ardern government has made an art form out of reviews and inquiries- when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to shelve the findings, virtually untouched . Among other things, the WorkSafe criminal proceedings into the Whakaari /White ... More >>
