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Gordon Campbell on the lessons of the Canada election result
Wednesday, 21 October 2015, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
So Canada has delivered a resounding goodbye and good riddance to Stephen Harper and his Conservative government. Yesterday’s ‘landslide’ victory for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party was the outcome of a campaign that (a) started out as a ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Govt’s refusal to use tackle obesity
Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
True to form, the government seems more concerned about the financial health of the food industry than the actual physical health of New Zealand children. No real surprise there. The Key government has consistently refused to take meaningful action ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Australia giving us the flick
Monday, 19 October 2015, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Nice bloke, but you wouldn’t want him to run the country. Once again, the failings of John Key on the world stage have been cruelly exposed. Over the weekend, Australia’s new leader Malcolm Turnbull played Key like some steely-eyed Aussie test batsman ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour-bashing over the TPP, and Canada
Friday, 16 October 2015, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Should we be surprised that Labour has ended up as the media’s cheap and easy target over the TPP ? Clearly, it would be more risky to attack with similar gusto the government that actually negotiated and signed this deal. Treasonous even, for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our inability to stand up to Australia
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
If you fight your bullies, the TV series Freaks and Geeks suggested, it can be painful at the time… but you earn respect and they will tend to leave you alone afterwards. Alas, and only days before the first meeting between our Prime Minister John Key ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s trip to Iraq
Thursday, 8 October 2015, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has just returned from a quick visit to our troops in Iraq, where he reportedly discovered that (a) Iraq is hellishly hot and dusty (b) our troops are doing a great job and (c) that he personally, certainly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Govt’s favourite crony Serco, and the TPP
Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Serco’s emerging role as the government’s favourite corporate crony, and the TPP fallout More >>
Gordon Campbell on the TPP deal reached in Atlanta
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
If the TPP was the Rugby World Cup, the New Zealand team probably wouldn’t be making it out of pool play. While the final details will not emerge for a month, the TPP is offering disappointing returns for New Zealand… and over a very long ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the TPP countdown, & Mary Margaret O’Hara
Monday, 5 October 2015, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
While Australia and the US have reached agreement on the patent exclusivity term for biologics – the new drugs that have been one of the last sticking points on a TPP deal – this agreement has reportedly been rejected by both Chile and Peru, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the lack of accountability on Philip Smith
Friday, 2 October 2015, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
In New Zealand, accountability is an exotic creature rarely glimpsed at ministerial level, or among senior management. The flight to Rio by the paedophile /murderer Philip John Smith/Traynor is no exception. Oh, a couple of foot soldiers at the operational ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Putin’s diplomatic coup over Syria
Thursday, 1 October 2015, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
There’s a simple historical precedent for what is occurring in Syria. During WWII, the Allies joined forces with a known butcher and tyrant – Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union – in order to defeat a greater evil, Nazi Germany. Choosing the lesser ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Chris Brown furore
Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 10:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Thank goodness Dame Tariana Turia has been able to inject a bit of common sense into the Chris Brown visa issue – her argument being that forgiveness has a place in this decision, and there is an opportunity here that should be taken. Namely, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on TPP dairy , and investor-state disputes
Monday, 28 September 2015, 11:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s TPP done deal on dairy, and on investor-state disputes More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Greens bad deal over the flags
Thursday, 24 September 2015, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
So thanks to the Greens, the Red Peak design has now been added to the options for the flag referendum in November. Wow. In one fell swoop the Greens’ Gareth Hughes has (a) rescued Prime Minister John Key from his personal flag fiasco (b) got the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Paula Bennett’s gaffe and Luna in Newtown
Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Local Government Minister Paula Bennett ’s statement of support for cutting red tape in the building industry was probably self-certified as being politically OK, but it has blown up in her face. Self-regulation can be like that: its OK until it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Carly Fiorina and the anti-abortion scam
Friday, 18 September 2015, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
So Carly Fiorina – hitherto best known as the CEO who drove Hewlett-Packard to the brink of ruin - was the big winner in the second Republican candidates debate yesterday. One of her big debate moments – played unedited and without comment ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the rise of Malcolm Turnbull
Wednesday, 16 September 2015, 9:38 am | Gordon Campbell
… supposedly, the elevation of Malcolm Turnbull to Aussie PM will tell us a bit about the export potential of the John Key model of governance. That’s because famously, at the close of his first press conference as PM-elect, Turnbull cited ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Corbyn, Trump and outsider politics
Monday, 14 September 2015, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Jeremy Corbyn elevated to the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party! Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders on the rise in the US… On both sides of the Atlantic, these are dark days for the political Establishment. Career-wise, it must be hard to have ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on selecting refugees and Aussie generosity
Thursday, 10 September 2015, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that we know how many Syrian refugees New Zealand will accept, the focus can shift onto how they’ll be selected, and the criteria in play. Some 600 extra Syrian refugees will be welcomed here over the next three years, and 150 more will enter ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our response to the Syrian refugee crisis
Tuesday, 8 September 2015, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
The full scale of the New Zealand government response to the Syrian refugee crisis – reportedly, the world’s biggest humanitarian challenge since the post-war formation of the UN – has now been revealed . More >>
