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Gordon Campbell on scrapping the capital gains tax
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
W ith the wisdom of hindsight, the Labour/Greens combo never did have the numbers to get a meaningful capital gains tax (CGT) across the line. New Zealand First was unlikely to abandon the Mum and Dad property investors and small business owners ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the extradition of Julian Assange
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 10:07 am | Gordon Campbell
I t isn’t necessary to like Julian Assange to think that his extradition to the US (on the charge of aiding and abetting Chelsea Manning) would be a major injustice. And lest that be construed as a claim that the right to justice of his Swedish accusers ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the policing of social media content
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 11:42 am | Gordon Campbell
At the height of the Arab Spring less than a decade ago, social media platforms were hailed as bright new tools of liberation in the hands of the oppressed. In the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks though, the pendulum has swung in the opposite ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the pitfalls facing the Royal Commission
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 10:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Much of that information about the leadup to the attacks will be useful only to the extent that it illuminates two of the meatier aspects of the Inquiry’s terms of reference... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Islamic State Meets 'The Searchers'
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 2:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
The fall of Islamic State gives fresh relevance to John Wayne’s classic Western by Gordon Campbell More >>
Gordon Campbell on the legal crackdown on hate crimes
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 12:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
U nexpectedly, Justice Minister/SIS Minister Andrew Little has proven to be something of a loose cannon in the government’s response to the mosque attacks. Allegedly a safe pair of hands, Little initially tried to pre-empt criticism of the security ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on human rights and Ardern's visit to China
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Fairly and otherwise, the media often gets criticized for not speaking truth to power, especially on human rights issues. Why didn’t the media ask the government to take a stand on the dreadful human rights situation in Brutopia, or Thuggovia? And if ... More >>
Gordon Campbell the Net and white supremacist propaganda
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 9:46 am | Gordon Campbell
So there is to be a Royal Commission inquiry after all, into the mosque attacks – and it will be less focussed on the actions of the first responders on the day, and more on the prelude to the attack. More >>
Gordon Campbell on what government could have done better
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 12:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
Across New Zealand and the wide world beyond, PM Jacinda Ardern has justifiably won a ton of praise for how she has responded to the Christchurch attacks... Arguably though, and alongside those significant achievements, there have been a few areas ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Brexit and Christchurch tragedy porn
Wednesday, 20 March 2019, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
J ust when we thought the Brexit mess couldn’t get any messier, it suddenly has. For months and months, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been playing a lethal game of chicken with the British Parliament. Accept my wretched deal, she has been repeatedly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Christchurch massacre inquiry
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 2:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
So far, so good. At Cabinet yesterday, the promised changes to our gun laws cleared their first hurdle. According to PM Jacinda Ardern, Cabinet agreed collectively “in principle” on a set of proposals to change New Zealand’s gun laws. Those proposals ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on effective changes to gun laws and the SIS
Sunday, 17 March 2019, 11:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Already, the government has signalled that its response to the Christchurch mosque shootings will proceed on two main fronts (a) changes to the gun laws (b) changes to the current surveillance behaviours of the Police and the SIS. So… what would ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the school climate strike
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 12:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
L ast August, when 15 year old Greta Thunberg first began her lonely school strike in Sweden against climate change, she had a succinct message for those adults telling her that she would be better off being in class: “If you don’t give a shit about ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on tax dodges, and the Brexit vote
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Good grief, 2019 is proving to be such a bad year for the Kiwi way of life, which – patriots beware! – is under attack on all fronts by the IRD. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Shane Jones, and a Huawei update
Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
F or better and worse, this is a small country, and the business community in Northland is smaller still. Beyond that again, the sources of venture capital for Maori business endeavours up North must be vanishingly small. Therefore, almost from its inception, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the handling of sexual assault complaints
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 12:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the handling of sexual assault complaints (and ticket scalping) First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on justice for Kiwi jihadis
Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Mark Taylor, the Kiwi recruit to ISIS, ultimately put himself in the hands of the Kurdish forces in northern Syria . More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Justin Trudeau’s fate matters to NZ
Monday, 4 March 2019, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
The scandal now engulfing Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party is the kind of train wreck that confirms the public’s worst feelings about politicians and their back-room dealings. The fact that the Mr Nice Guy of global politics is at the centre of it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Why Saudi Arabia shouldn’t get to buy nukes
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why this guy shouldn’t be allowed to buy nuclear weapons Gordon Campbell on why this guy shouldn’t be allowed to buy nuclear weapons More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s cosy relationship with China
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
While former PM Jenny Shipley did not write the notorious op ed that appeared under her byline recently in a Chinese newspaper , the article was based on an interview she gave to the newspaper in December. More to the point, the op ed’s content seemed ... More >>
