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Gordon Campbell on China’s devaluation, and Wolf Alice
Thursday, 13 August 2015, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
As China’s currency takes the down elevator towards the basement – and after two days of decline no one knows how far down it will eventually go – its hard to see any good news for New Zealand. Our main export commodity (dairy powder) has ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Labour v Refugees & the SIS charm offensive
Wednesday, 12 August 2015, 10:01 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s pandering to the redneck vote about refugees, and the SIS charm offensive More >>
Gordon Campbell on Japan’s doubts on the TPP's Future
Monday, 10 August 2015, 10:16 am | Gordon Campbell
Japan has made it clear it thinks New Zealand was the key major stumbling block to a successful conclusion of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Alas, New Zealand proved to be the axle-breaking bump in the road that nobody saw until it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the economic bad news
Wednesday, 5 August 2015, 10:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Traditionally, voters regard National as a more competent manager of the economy. It is the sole upside of crony capitalism: surely these guys must know what their mates in business want and need. These last few months though, have put that faith ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on opposing investor-state dispute measures
Monday, 3 August 2015, 11:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Even in this dark hour for the TPP, the secrecy farce continues. On RNZ this morning, Trade Minister Tim Groser said he looks forward to the day when he can take the covers off , and show New Zealand what a good deal we’ve won. Oh, good grief. What is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Tim Groser missing in action on the TPP
Friday, 31 July 2015, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
While rapid change is always possibl e in trade talks as they approach the deadline, lets assume that the offers on the table for dairy at the TPP talks in Maui won’t improve much beyond the “appallingly bad” level currently being lamented by New ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on D-Day for dairy at the TPP
Thursday, 30 July 2015, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
While New Zealand may feel flattered at being called “the Saudi Arabia of milk” it would be more accurate to regard us as the suicide bombers of free trade. Ever since the Uruguay Round kicked off in the 1980s New Zealand has set a socially self ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the PM’s TPP concessions on medicines
Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 2:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
So, on the eve of the last round of talks meant to finalise the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, Prime Minister John Key has conceded that yes New Zealand will probably have to pay more for medicines under the TPP . More >>
Gordon Campbell on 90s retro proposals for our health system
Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Reviews are under way that could transform the New Zealand health system into our very own version of the Eurozone, whereby DHBs that fail to meet their budgets will be treated like Greece, and punished accordingly. As we learned yesterday , the reviews ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the dogged reluctance to condemn Serco
Friday, 24 July 2015, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
The refusal by Minister Sam Lotu-Liga to hold Serco accountable for the company’s failings in prison management is bad enough. Basically, this ingrained reluctance is an echo of the government’s wider failure to heed the dangers that are inherent ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on new bureaucratic tests for solo parents
Thursday, 23 July 2015, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
Offhand, its hard to think of a more cynical example of political opportunism than the requirement that solo parents will now need to re-apply for their benefits each year. This new rule is being enforced in the full knowledge that a significant number ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Key talking up our - and China's - economy
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 10:16 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on John Key trying to talk up our - and China’s – ailing economy More >>
Gordon Campbell on dairy, anti-Chinese sentiment, Pluto
Friday, 17 July 2015, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Where now for dairy farmers? On RNZ this morning, Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce was portraying the carnage of plunging global dairy prices, declining Fonterra payouts and bank foreclosures as merely a product of the normal business ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Iran’s phantom nukes, and nuking Greece
Wednesday, 15 July 2015, 9:50 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the deal over Iran’s phantom nukes, and nuking Greece’s future More >>
Gordon Campbell on Treasury’s plans for Kiwirail
Friday, 10 July 2015, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Is there any more terrifying phrase in the English language than “Treasury recommends”? The latest idiotic idea to emerge from the Treasury – lets close down Kiwirail – deserves to be filed away alongside previous gems such as “ Treasury push for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on where Greece goes from here
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
As one candid British commentator tried to come to grips with why his confident prediction of a “Yes” vote in Greece has failed so resoundingly, he said that he’d made that prediction from his own viewpoint – as someone with savings to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Tiwai Point, and saying “No” in Greece
Thursday, 2 July 2015, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Its hard to see how Rio Tinto’s one month delay in announcing its intentions about the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is a good sign for (a) the jobs of the workers affected or (b) for the New Zealand taxpayer. Either Rio Tinto is angling for another ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the crisis in Greece
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Greece, as the cradle of democracy, is getting no brownie points for actually practicing it. The decision by the Greek government to go back to the people for a mandate for the bailout terms being proposed by the Eurozone seems entirely appropriate. Syriza ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on climate change protest, and Iraq training
Friday, 26 June 2015, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
For sheer style, humour and content fit for purpose, it would be hard to beat yesterday’s Greenpeace protest at Parliament. The fact that the hanging of functioning solar panels from Parliament Buildings caused such spluttering outrage among fogeys old ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on telling the poor to ask for more
Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
The government’s “let them ask for more” response to the dilapidated, cold and unhealthy conditions faced by many families in state housing can only be put down to two things – utter cluelessness, or total cynicism. This week, Prime Minister ... More >>
