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Gordon Campbell on National's cheap politics on gun reform
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 11:52 am | Gordon Campbell
“The best reforms are made against the demands of your own base.” In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, Tim Fischer chose not to pander to his own party’s worst short term instincts. (He did the same when publicly rejecting the bigotry ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our suicide rates, and Prince Andrew
Tuesday, 27 August 2019, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Since yesterday’s release of the Chief Coroners provisional statistics on our suicide rates, most of the commentary has focused on the need to fund families, schools and communities with better resources to prevent the incidence of suicide – which the ... More >>
On why New Zealand shouldn’t try to curry favour with Trump
Friday, 23 August 2019, 12:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
The bizarre spat over Donald Trump trying to buy Greenland shows just how foolish it would be for any country to treat the US as a reliable ally these days. Obviously, there is no lasting benefit to be gained from doing your bit in any traditional alliance ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Commerce Commission fuel report
Wednesday, 21 August 2019, 11:48 am | Gordon Campbell
O il companies have always struggled to win public affection. Over the past 20 years, Gallup’s annual US poll of public perceptions of the leading business sectors has found oil companies either coming in dead last in public esteem, or sitting just ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Hong Kong protest movement
Monday, 19 August 2019, 12:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Nearly ten weeks after the huge Hong Kong protests began, managing to still get 1.7 million people onto the streets in the rain is a testament to how strong the pro-democracy movement has become . More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Boris is threatening to shoot a puppy
Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
It may help to think of the October 31 ‘no deal’ Brexit as a warm, rascally puppy. And British PM Boris Johnson has made it clear that he will shoot that puppy, unless someone stops him. Look, Johnson is as good as saying, here I go across the room ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on NZ First and the ban on prisoner voting
Monday, 12 August 2019, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Justice Minister Andrew Little has indicated that he will be taking a paper to Cabinet with the aim of repealing the ban. Good luck with that. The road block at Cabinet is likely to be New Zealand First, which also derailed Little’s attempt to repeal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Supreme Court and the Ellis case
Thursday, 8 August 2019, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
There is a sense of inevitability about the Supreme Court being asked to review the Peter Ellis case. Last October the Criminal Case Review Commission Bill passed its first reading. More >>
Gordon Campbell on reforming the abortion laws
Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
Generally speaking, abortion will be treated as a health issue between a woman and her doctor rather than as a subset of the Crimes Act. Abortion is to be medicalised, rather than criminalised. That’s progress, I guess. More >>
Gordon Campbell on public inquiries and public access
Wednesday, 31 July 2019, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
In New Zealand, there are at least two major inquiries into security/defence issues running in parallel at the moment, and the one that’s demonstrating more transparency and candour is not the one that you’d expect. Surprisingly, it has been the Royal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the barriers facing female politicians
Monday, 29 July 2019, 11:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Likeability is an elusive political quality. So much so that pollsters sometimes define it as… with which politician would you be willing to share a beer? On the current evidence though, voters are less likely to regard a female politician as ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Ihumatao dispute
Thursday, 25 July 2019, 11:18 am | Gordon Campbell
There is no tidy way forward on the Ihumatao dispute, given that the mana whenua with valid claims to the site are locked in conflict. Earlier this year though, Fletchers did indicate its willingness to consider any serious offer to buy the 33 hectares ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest struggle for gun reform
Wednesday, 24 July 2019, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The gun lobby can be relied on to drag its feet at best (and actively resist at worst) in the face of any attempt to make gun ownership safer for the families and communities within which the gun owners happen to live. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Kiwis being the Aussies’ Pacific go-fers
Monday, 22 July 2019, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Inevitably, there was an aspect of ‘what might have been’ about the weekend’s meeting in Canberra between PM Jacinda Ardern and her Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison. If not for the surprise election result, Ardern would almost certainly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Trump’s open white nationalism
Wednesday, 17 July 2019, 12:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
This has been the week that the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln – which once led a civil war that ended the slave economy of the South – has now defined itself openly as being the party of white nationalism. More >>
Gordon Campbell on what’s wrong with Wellington
Tuesday, 16 July 2019, 12:54 pm | Gordon Campbell
A s a rule, expectations tend to be as low about Wellington weather as they are about the workings of central government – which makes this place such an ideal choice as the nation’s seat of power. After all, the subtext of “You can’t ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Aussie banks’ latest fee hike excuse
Thursday, 11 July 2019, 11:52 am | Gordon Campbell
When the Reserve Bank sought feedback on its plans to require the country’s major banks to raise their capital reserves (so that the banking system could survive a crisis in future without a taxpayer bailout and without raiding the deposit accounts ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand First’s stellar balancing act
Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 11:52 am | Gordon Campbell
At this point, New Zealand First needs to more than double its current poll numbers to survive beyond Election Day, 2020… but that’s what Winston Peters is so very good at doing, once an election campaign begins in earnest. (No-one has ever accused ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the usual grumbling over screen subsidies
Thursday, 4 July 2019, 12:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
Ultimately, we seem to have won this production largely because of the mature film industry infrastructure that New Zealand has built on the back of those previously subsidized productions. For example: we now have the studio sound stages that Scotland ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US's Operation Burnham evidence
Tuesday, 2 July 2019, 11:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on how the Americans are helping us realise the scale of the Operation Burnham fiasco First published on Werewolf More >>
