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On Sickness Leave, And On Our Muted Call On Statehood For Palestine
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 12:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Sickness doesn’t work part-time, which is one of the design flaws in the government plans to amend the Holidays Act. More >>
On Sudan’s Largely Forgotten War
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 12:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
For the past three years, Western media outlets have been focussed on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine (and on the US vs China trade rivalry) to the exclusion of almost every other conflict. The civil war in Sudan has been all but ignored, despite the ... More >>
On Our Recognition Of Palestine, And Those $70 Million Concert Subsidies
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 12:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
Thankfully, the end is in sight for the government’s dance of the seven veils over recognising the state of Palestine, and for Labour’s rampant indecision about the wisdom of endorsing a capital gains tax. More >>
On The Phillips Kids And Why It's OK To Not Mourn Charlie Kirk
Monday, 15 September 2025, 1:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
No bread, all circuses. Allegedly, the cupboard is bare when it comes to putting extra money on the table to offer nurses, teachers and junior doctors the wages (and staffing relief) that they deserve, and which might stop some of them from leaving More >>
On Playing Performative Politics While The Economy (And The Public Health System) Burns
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
As the old saying goes, “With your eyes, you enter the world. But with your ears, the world enters you.” This may explain why hearing the familiar cadences of certain politicians on the radio can trigger a visceral reaction. More >>
On The Decline Of Winston Peters, And The Attacks On Helen Clark
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 12:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
As usual, last weekend’s New Zealand First conference in Palmerston North was very much about the Dear Leader. Alas, and like many other gentlemen of advancing years, Winston Peters has turned into one of the people that his younger self used to rail ... More >>
On Why Data Centres Are Not Your (Or The Planet’s) Friend
Thursday, 4 September 2025, 12:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
It sounds too good to be true. A giant multinational mothership – Amazon Web Services aka AWS – it supposedly intent on spending $7.5 billion here in building and operating a cluster of state-of-the-art data centres likely to create 1,000 fulltime jobs and ... More >>
On Why The Government Isn’t Fixing The Cost Of Living Crisis
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 12:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
These are the perennial political questions that every incumbent government has to face. Do people feel better/wealthier/more secure now than they were three years ago? Not much, it seems. More >>
On ACT’s Fake Defence Of Equality
Thursday, 28 August 2025, 12:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
For people blessed with privilege, their head start becomes so normalised that the advantages of wealth, better education, good housing, better healthcare, white skin and maleness are invisible to them. Many of them really seem to think their success ... More >>
On A Troubling Innovation In Healthcare, And Moral Inertia Over Gaza
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 12:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
In China during the Cultural Revolution, “barefoot doctors” would be trained in the basics of healthcare, and then sent off to work in rural areas where fully trained urban doctors would not settle. This isn’t an idea that has ever got much ... More >>
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 >>
