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Gordon Campbell on the nurses strike
Wednesday, 11 July 2018, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
A t this point, the official response to the nurses strike has very little to do with the merits of the case. Hey, if the coalition government yields anything further to the nurses’ demands, it has concluded, what signal would that send to the teachers ... More >>
Campbell: Five reasons not to spend billions replacing P-3s
Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
T here’s a pattern here. Centre-left governments will give Defence whatever it says it needs, for fear that a “No” will result in them being labelled a bunch of peaceniks. The Clark government for instance, not only re-equipped the Army with ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on next week’s NATO debacle
Friday, 6 July 2018, 9:24 am | Gordon Campbell
F or someone routinely cast as a clown presiding over an administration in chaos, Donald Trump has been very consistent about his agenda, and remarkably successful in achieving it, in the short term at least. By now, it seems clear that Trump has ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on subsidising the film industry
Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
F ilm subsidies – or subsidies of any sort – have always been regarded by Treasury as a heretical notion. Sure, film subsidies may work in practice, but do they work in theory? In 2004, Treasury was predicting they could cost $10 million a year . ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the cost of nurse pay in perspective
Thursday, 28 June 2018, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
Military hardware is really, really, really expensive. Insanely so, given that the official NZDF forecasts envisage no credible military threat to this country over the operational lifetime of the gear currently in line to be purchased. More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s fear mongering about strikes
Tuesday, 26 June 2018, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on National’s deliberate fear mongering about strikes and industrial action First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on family separations, and family publicity
Monday, 25 June 2018, 12:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
the recent upsurge in asylum seekers is still running below the 569,000 figure recorded in 2014, and is only a fraction of the 1,643,679 people who sought asylum in fiscal year 2000, and without the US sinking under the weight. More >>
Gordon Campbell on tomorrow’s EU trade talks with NZ
Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 11:29 am | Gordon Campbell
O ne of the world’s most influential bureaucrats – the European Union’s Trade Commissioner Cecelia Malmstrom - will be in New Zealand tomorrow to launch the formal process of negotiating a bilateral trade pact between the EU and New Zealand. Malmstrom ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on a new obstacle to the 'Hit & Run' inquiry
Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 11:52 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the latest High Court obstacle to the Hit & Run inquiry First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Waikeria Prison decision
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
S o much for the easy part on prison policy. Yesterday, the coalition government announced its decision to build a smaller 500 bed high security prison at Waikeria, with a 100-bed mental health unit attached – rather than the huge 2,000-3,000 bed ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Sir Peter Gluckman and his prisons report
Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Sir Peter Gluckman and his report on prison reform First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the media vs Trump's untruth-in-packaging
Monday, 11 June 2018, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the media’s untruth-in-packaging problem with the Trump circus First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on Jim Bolger’s workplace reform task force
Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 11:55 am | Gordon Campbell
T he neo-liberal wing of the National Party has never really felt that Jim Bolger was one of them, and the feeling was entirely mutual. Back in October 1980 when the ideologues wanted Bolger to topple Robert Muldoon (in the so called ‘colonels coup’) ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the talks with North Korea
Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 1:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on what we can expect from the talks with North Korea First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the carnage being caused by Police pursuits
Thursday, 31 May 2018, 12:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
Must be that time again. Time for the Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCA) to produce yet another review of the high speed pursuit policy, which the Police will no doubt ignore, and shelve alongside all the others. They’re consistent like ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on showing love to farmers over M Bovis
Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on showing maximum love to farmers over M Bovis First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the M bovis outbreak
Thursday, 24 May 2018, 12:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
A s the public keeps on being told, there is no risk at all to human health from cows infected with Mycoplasma bovis. In that respect, it is not at all like mad cow disease. Even so, the M bovis outbreak is still doing the head in of Agriculture ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why we should be anxious about AI
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 3:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
Poor old Phil Twyford. Caned by everyone, including his own team – the Prime Minister, the PSA – for saying something so very obvious. Treasury has, and always has had, some people in it with precious little of the life experience relevant to understanding ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on racism and the Windsors
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 3:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
For all the talk about the modernizing effect that Meghan Markle could have on the Royal Family, the suspicion all along has been that the House of Windsor is resistant to change at any level beyond the purely decorative. Yes, Prince Harry has married ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Budget 2018
Friday, 18 May 2018, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
To put it mildly, Budget 2018 has not been an outbreak of wild-eyed, tax and spend liberalism. “Unfortunately not,” says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg agrees laconically. “But what you're seeing and within the constraints [the government] have set themselves, ... More >>
