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Gordon Campbell on the lack of leadership on refugees
Friday, 4 September 2015, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
John Key still doesn’t get it. At least he’s now talking about raising the UN quota, after – only last Monday - flatly denying that there was any need to do so. Yet even this potential turnaround (the step has yet to be taken ) seems weirdly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on refugees, the flag and Bo Diddley
Wednesday, 2 September 2015, 9:33 am | Gordon Campbell
There’s a simple statistical reason why New Zealand should increase its refugee intake. Our UN quota has remained static – or fallen slightly – over the past 30 years. Over the same period, both our economy and our population has grown substantially ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on NZ’s response to Euope's refugee crisis
Tuesday, 1 September 2015, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The government’s refusal to accept an emergency intake of refugees from the hundreds of thousands now pouring into Europe is pretty shameful. This country makes so much of its Anzac heritage. Yet now, John Key and Tony Abbott are standing side by side ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Children’s Commission report on CYF
Thursday, 27 August 2015, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Accusing the overworked and underfunded staff at Child, Youth and Family of a “ dump and run culture of neglect " is the kind of luxury that a Children’s Commissioner can afford to indulge in from his own comfy perch in the bureaucracy. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the flag campaign
Tuesday, 25 August 2015, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, the public has treated the government’s flag campaign with something between disinterest and disdain. Most New Zealanders have instinctively seen through the marketing hype involved. Basically the flag campaign is a ‘feel good’ bit of ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Donald Trump, and Dr Dre
Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 9:24 am | Gordon Campbell
For the past few months, you, me, and Rupert Murdoch have been waiting for the wheels to fall off the Trump campaign, and for some drab incarnation of business-as-usual (Jeb Bush, Scott Walker) to emerge as the real Republican standard bearer in next ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Tim Groser and the Wrecking Crew
Monday, 17 August 2015, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
At times, a protest march can feel like a futile political tactic, but at least afterwards… Trade Minister Tim Groser can always be relied on to put his foot in his mouth. The weekend’s turnout of thousands – in Auckland in wet weather - ... More >>
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 >>
