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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 >>
Gordon Campbell on the public service reforms
Thursday, 27 June 2019, 12:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the ways the public is being left unprotected by the public service reforms First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s cosmetic banking reforms
Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The elephant in the room as the government carries out its latest bout of tinkerings with our banking practice is the extraordinary level of profit-taking still being extracted by the Australian Banking Gang from ordinary New Zealanders. Yes indeed, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on this week’s Operation Burnham revelations
Friday, 21 June 2019, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Eight centuries ago at Beziers in France, the papal soldiers besieging the town faced much the same problem as the New Zealand troops engaged in Operation Burnham – namely, how to how to tell the difference among the town’s inhabitants as to which ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the gun buy-back scheme
Thursday, 20 June 2019, 4:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
Do gun amnesties and buy-backs save lives? Since it’s always difficult to exclude all of the socio-economic factors that may be operating in parallel, the die-hard denialists in the gun lobby will always be able to find a bit of wiggle room. Yet ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our Wild West banking culture, and Iran
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 11:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Nine year cycles of neglect seem to be the centre-right’s equivalent of the seven year itch. Certainly, David Hisco’s nine year stint as CEO of the ANZ bank (while his expense claim eccentricities went by unbothered by board oversight) has been ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asking the banks to be nicer to farmers
Tuesday, 18 June 2019, 12:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
At the urging of New Zealand First, the government announced yesterday that it will be creating a compulsory mediation service between debt-laden farmers and their banks , with a view to either throwing those indebted farmers a lifeline, or arranging ... More >>
On the war purposes of our massive defence spend-up
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 12:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
If you’re willing to believe Defence Minister Ron Mark, our defence forces will be operating in future like a high-tech version of Oxfam. Yes, we’re going to be spending $20 billion on Defence in the years out until 2030, but allegedly…” ... More >>
