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Gordon Campbell on the Royal Commission into child abuse
Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 11:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Obviously, it is good news that the coalition government has broadened the scope of its Royal Commission into the abuse of children, beyond its previous focus on children in state care. In effect, there will now be two closely related reports. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Democratic leadership and Trump
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
On the big picture, the poll predictions were dead right. In the end, the Democratic Party won a clear victory in the House, and lost as expected in the Senate, where it had been defending at least 10 seats in regions that had voted heavily for Trump ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Aussie banks and their profits
Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 11:45 am | Gordon Campbell
S ome folk rob you with a six-gun, as Woody Guthrie once memorably put it, and some rob you with a fountain pen. And some do it in broad daylight without blinking, while the government looks on impotently. The members of the Aussie Banking Gang for instance, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on maximizing gains from the Avatar sequels
Monday, 5 November 2018, 12:26 pm | Gordon Campbell
B y now, I’m sure we’ve all noted in our diaries the release dates (and alleged working titles) for all the Avatar sequels, but just in case… Avatar 2: The Way of Water is due in theatres on December 18, 2020 followed by Avatar 3: The Seed Bearer ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: ministerial transparency, presidential lies
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 12:33 pm | Gordon Campbell
M inister gets inadequate advice from departmental officials, gets caught out . That’s embarrassing, but hardly of lasting impact, given that the person most affected by the new information – the Czech convict and whistle blower Karel Sroubek – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on (finally) changing the abortion law
Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
The right to abortion in this country has always rested on a very flimsy foundation. As many observers have noted, New Zealand has a very conservative abortion law in place that has always been interpreted liberally in practice, in order to bring it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why deportation should be transparent
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Kicking the problematic cases upstairs for the Minister to operate as some kind of ‘last chance saloon’ is to turn the deportation decision into a lottery. More >>
Gordon Campbell on our addiction to the monarchy
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Of all the major outposts of Empire, New Zealand has always been the very last to shed its fascination with the British royals. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the polls and National’s leadership
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on what the polls say about National’s leadership First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell: The West’s role arming Khashoggi’s killers
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
The cliché about one death being a tragedy and a million deaths only a statistic has been demonstrated in spades by the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Jami-Lee Ross, and the Hobbit law
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
C learly, Jami-Lee Ross is not waging a normal form of political warfare, with agreed rules of combat and rational cost/benefit calculations. This is politics-as-terrorism where everything is being sacrificed by the man in the bomb vest in order to remove ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Jami-Lee Ross Saga
Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
W e can agree that some forms of behaviour are quite beyond the pale. When the cult leader takes more than one wife, it is time to leave the compound. Similarly, secretly taping your political leader and threatening to release the contents in public is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why the highly educated vote centre-left
Monday, 15 October 2018, 12:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
The people protesting the name change from “Victoria University” to the “University of Wellington” really are giving conservatism a bad name. It seems decidedly odd to treat this issue as the bridgehead from which to mount a defence of tradition ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the govt’s feeble response to loan sharks
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 12:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
When it comes down to protecting the most vulnerable, Parliament can sometimes move at glacial pace, and do the bare minimum. The coalition government’s attempts to minimise the harm done by loan sharks comes nearly 12 years after a major report ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the political cost of rising petrol prices
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
O ver the course of National’s entire term of office… it had the great good fortune that high global oil prices rarely coincided with a low Kiwi dollar, and so the price of petrol never became a major item on the political agenda. No such ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ongoing battles over free speech
Monday, 8 October 2018, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
F ree speech controversies – and the threats to freedom of expression posed by city councils and university administrators – rarely have to do with the opinions of those lacking a public platform. Hurtful though the actions of the Massey University ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on bringing business into the 21st century
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 12:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
G ood to see that Business NZ has had the good grace to applaud the government’s latest handout to its members . From now on it seems, firms will only need to re-invest a paltry $50,000 in research and development – half the previous amount – to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the teachers' struggle
Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
These days, strike action is essentially a game of three dimensional chess, and the industrial stoppages coming our way in education are a case in point. From the outset, the teacher organizations will have to inconvenience the public, but without alienating ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why we shouldn’t pledge NZF's values
Monday, 1 October 2018, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
So, at its annual conference on the weekend, New Zealand First voted to introduce legislation forcing new migrants and refugees to sign a pledge that they’ll abide by a list of “ New Zealand values” - presumably, as a condition of entry to this ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Elizabeth Warren’s plans
Thursday, 27 September 2018, 1:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save capitalism from itself First published on Werewolf More >>
