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On Teachers, Ferries And The Really Wasteful Spending
Thursday, 21 August 2025, 11:51 am | Gordon Campbell
In the context of yesterday’s teachers strike, Judith Collins claimed that teachers with ten years of experience “can” (not “do”) earn $147,000 a year. In reality though, teachers have to pay their mortgage/rent and put food on the table with their ... More >>
On Health Narrowly Conceived, And Ukraine’s Latest Impasse
Tuesday, 19 August 2025, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Imagine an assessment of public health delivery that -for starters – ignored the adequacy of current funding and staffing levels, or the extent of unmet need. Imagine if this evaluation also omits the short term/long term implications of the privatisation ... More >>
On The Lack Of Spine In New Zealand’s Foreign Policy On Gaza
Thursday, 14 August 2025, 12:33 pm | Gordon Campbell
The word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “ Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic attempt to erase an entire people from history on the basis of their ethnic identity. More >>
On Labour’s Soft Support In The Polls
Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Currently, Labour is a receptacle for the widespread public dis-illusionment with the Luxon admin. However, this week’s poll results– a hung Parliament in which the centre-right & centre left blocs were tied on 61 seats – flatters to deceive More >>
On A Clueless Government Running A Jobless Economy
Friday, 8 August 2025, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the whoppers told regularly by Nicola Willis & Christopher Luxon is that National inherited a terrible, no good economy from Labour, with rampant inflation & sky high interest rates that they have since -allegedly- brought under control. More >>
On New Zealand’s Role In The New ANZUS Remake
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 12:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
Want Donald Trump to lower the tariffs on your exports to US markets? Easy. Offer him money. Lots of it. More >>
On The Perils Of Trading With Trump
Monday, 4 August 2025, 1:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Luxon did protest too much on the weekend. Sure, the credulous party faithful were willing to believe him as he continued to lay the blame for the state of the economy on what Labour did, or didn’t do three, four or six years ago – but at some point, ... More >>
On The Dubious Rationales For The Waikato Medical School
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 12:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, a large amount of the cost of creating and running the new $235 million medical school at Waikato University will be financed by philanthropic donations. The government will be chipping in $83 million directly, and the university will ... More >>
On National’s Bid To Steal Future Elections
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
Other countries are expanding the ability of their citizens to vote. In Britain (from which New Zealand has long taken its constitutional cues) the franchise is being extended to 16-year-olds. In this country, we’re headed in the opposite direction. More >>
On Why The Free Market Is A Scam, Plus The Epstein Saga
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 12:38 pm | Gordon Campbell
In the shadow of the Holocaust at the end of WWII, the world passed a raft of United Nations/Geneva conventions to ensure that states could “never again” inflict such horrors on a racially defined population. Well, such horrors are happening again. More >>
On New Zealand’s Peter Thiel Problem
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 3:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, the moral revulsion being felt around the world at Israel’s actions in Gaza has induced 24 countries to sign a joint letter calling on Israel to cease its onslaught, and to“end now” the Gaza conflict. More >>
On The Costs Of Regulating Cost, And Burkina Faso As A Role Model
Thursday, 17 July 2025, 12:56 pm | Gordon Campbell
Funny how “blow-out” gets so readily applied to cost escalation in the provision of public services (hospital rebuilds, the Cook Strait ferries) but when politicians get the figures wrong for their pet projects, its just a matter of opinion. More >>
On Ducking The Costs Of Climate Change
Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 2:12 pm | Gordon Campbell
Looking for consistency in all things is said to be the hallmark of a small mind. Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. More >>
On Why The Regulatory Standards Bill Is A Hot Mess
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
When the politician pushing a controversial piece of legislation starts accusing his critics of “derangement syndrome” – as David Seymour has done this week – then any chance of a rational debate on the Regulatory Standards Bill has gone More >>
On Using The Tax System To Boost Funding For The Arts
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Despite the myriad concerns being expressed about the Regulatory Standards Bill – including misgivings by his own Regulations Ministry and scorn from constitutional law expert Sir Geoffrey Palmer – David Seymour has professed to find no merit in ... More >>
On National’s Crackdown On Shoplifters
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Politicians do like being tough on crime. Flexing law and order muscle is a feature of the patriarchal Daddy State, and is beloved by the very same conservatives who deplore the workings of the Nanny State. But tough on which crimes – and even more ... More >>
On What Our Labour Party Could Learn From Zohran Mamdani
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 11:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Heaven forbid that an abrasive punk duo that calls itself Bob Vylan should lead a hostile chant at the Glastonbury music festival against a military organisation that has killed tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, and enforcing a famine that is ... More >>
On Exonerating Israel, And Demonising Iran
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 1:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
Now that the US and Israel have stopped bombing Iran, Israel can re-focus on its core business of starving children in Gaza, and killing their parents, medical staff, journalists and anyone else who strays across their line of fire. More >>
On Trump’s Anti-Bomb Bombing Campaign
Monday, 23 June 2025, 11:13 am | Gordon Campbell
If the US really wanted to stop nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East, it would have long ago supported the moves to declare the region a nuclear weapon free zone, and allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor it. More >>
On Sacrificing Worker Rights On The Altar Of Commerce
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
In the interests of efficiency, maybe Brooke van Velden should just outsource her Workplace Relations and Safety Ministry to Business NZ and be done with it. Because (obviously) corporate wishes are her command. More >>
