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Gordon Campbell on the government’s selective lethargy
Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 10:16 am | Gordon Campbell
W hen it feels so inclined, the Key government can put its foot down hard on the accelerator. Time and again the period for public submissions (and the scrutiny of them by MPs) has been drastically shortened , supposedly so that a busy government ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on The Rise of the Sewbots
Friday, 9 September 2016, 10:58 am | Gordon Campbell
O f late, we’ve all heard a lot of anxious media talk about how automation is poised to wipe out the white collar office jobs on which middle class incomes and lifestyles depend. The looming social upheaval forms a big part of the argument for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on housing illusions, and Trump libertarians
Wednesday, 7 September 2016, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
S o Auckland’s average house price has now topped a million dollars and in her usual role as flak catcher and diversion from such headlines, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett has rushed out a puny funding boost for community housing. More >>
Gordon Campbell on government complacency, and Mother Teresa
Tuesday, 6 September 2016, 9:51 am | Gordon Campbell
H ousing crisis, what housing crisis. The inquiry into homelessness? Yawn. That didn’t tell John Key anything he didn’t already know . More >>
Gordon Campbell on Apple’s unpaid tax issues
Thursday, 1 September 2016, 10:02 am | Gordon Campbell
R eportedly, Apple owes Ireland $US14 billion in unpaid taxes, plus interest. Not that Ireland seems to want the reputational risk involved in the terrifying role that the European Commission has just landed it with. Yikes. In the wake of Brexit, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the challenges of Keytruda funding
Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
A ll year, the availability of the new generation of anti-cancer drugs in New Zealand has been driven by political decisions, as much as by medical ones. Because patients with advanced melanomas made a lot of the initial public fuss, Pharmac and its political ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Judith Collins charm offensive
Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
S uddenly, Judith Collins is everyone’s new best friend. It isn’t an election year, but the Corrections/Police Minister is treating 2016 as an opportunity for a political makeover. The former stern-faced law and order toughie (and dodgy Oravida ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the end game in Spain
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
O ne of the issues to do with the Fairfax/NZME media merger proposal is the decline in (a) news gathering and in (b) news analysis likely to follow in its wake. That decline is already pretty evident not only in the lack of coverage of the enduring ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on special needs education funding changes
Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 11:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the funding changes in special needs education, and Uber First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the waning fever for the Olympics
Monday, 22 August 2016, 10:25 am | Gordon Campbell
A ccording to the spin merchants and others with an interest in whipping up an audience, these have been our most successful Olympics ever. Huzzah! Yet given that the public spent more money (circa $215 million since the London Olympics) to send our biggest ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on China steel dumping, and the 60s revival
Friday, 19 August 2016, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
G uess who isn’t taking any visible action to ensure New Zealand isn’t damaged by China dumping its state-subsidized steel glut cheaply here? Here’s what the European Union has put in place : More >>
Gordon Campbell on Havelock North’s water issues
Wednesday, 17 August 2016, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Having belatedly advised the people of Havelock North about the pollution of their water supply, the local authorities seem to be prematurely claiming to see light at the end of the tunnel . More >>
Gordon Campbell on politicising the war on drugs in sport
Monday, 15 August 2016, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
I ronically, the media coverage of the Olympics has been a sterling example of the rabid nationalism that the Olympics were supposed to transcend. So far, its been all about us and our medals and/or our ninth or 27th or 39th place effort. Still, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on electricity pricing and Aleppo
Friday, 12 August 2016, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
I f the Reserve Bank has seemed this week like a ghost of the 1990s trying to re-discover its interest rate mojo, the Electricity Authority seems to be hellbent on a 1980s revival. You know, the days when the New Wave Monetary Romantics like Roger Douglas ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Impotence of the Reserve Bank
Thursday, 11 August 2016, 10:55 am | Gordon Campbell
I f anyone is keen on us having a 90s revival – ASAP – it would have to be Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler. Back in the 1990s, central bankers were like kings. They were Emperors of influence. When the likes of Don Brash clicked their fingers ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our China cringe
Wednesday, 10 August 2016, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Surprise. So we have a new round of revelations about the Key government’s handling of the threats to our exports by China - if we should proceed to investigate the reports of them dumping their excess steel in this country. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Rio Olympics
Monday, 8 August 2016, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Were you pretty excited earlier this week when Vietnam won its first ever Olympic gold medal? More >>
Gordon Campbell on rugby’s sense of entitlement
Friday, 5 August 2016, 3:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
S upposedly, there’s a tradition in this country where strippers get hired for ‘stag dos’ and “hen nights.” Chippendale blokes for the ladies, a sexy garter or two for the guys. It is usually crystal clear what the format is: a bit of saucy ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Bain compensation case
Wednesday, 3 August 2016, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
The only good news about the Bain compensation fiasco is that it is finally over. Allegedly, Bain failed to meet the threshold of innocence, but if so, the Key government failed to meet the threshold of competence on this issue. In the end, Bain got zero ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on NZ homecare workers and US voting rights
Tuesday, 2 August 2016, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
H opefully, the unions will not lie down and meekly accept yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling on the employment status of support worker Janet Lowe. As many as 35,000 home care workers stand to be affected by yesterday’s ruling – in which the appellate ... More >>
