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Gordon Campbell on the Maori “separatism” bogey
Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Leadership requires the leader to set aside self-interest. It is a concept that sometimes seems quite alien to Prime Minister John Key – who has reached instinctively for the most inflammatory card in the race relations deck – “separatism” – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on reluctance to help the Kurds against IS
Monday, 9 February 2015, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
The boundary line between our troops having (a) an ‘advise and assist’ role in Iraq and (b) an actual combat role – which Prime Minister John Key insists they will not have – would seem sheer wishful thinking. The Canadian special forces ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on govt's narrow conception of Waitangi Day
Thursday, 5 February 2015, 10:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Come Waitangi Day each year, Treaty settlements have become a de facto scorecard for New Zealand’s progress in race relations. It is not a good measure. That kind of approach not only places the sources of disadvantage in the past and the onus ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on a desperate health system merger
Wednesday, 4 February 2015, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
The economic version of the sound of one hand clapping is a “market” with only one provider – and that is exactly what the three DHBs in the Wellington region now seem about to create, as they chase after cost saving “efficiencies” in laboratory ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the freeing of journalist Peter Greste
Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
W ell, so much for all that enthusiasm about free speech in France. A couple of weeks ago, a 16 year old student was taken into police custody in Nantes for posting on Facebook a cartoon ironically commenting on one of Charlie Hebdo’s more notorious ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Russel Norman resignation
Monday, 2 February 2015, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
While not the decisive factor, last year’s election result must have made it easier for Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman to finally call it a day. After three years of solid campaigning on social justice, economic and environmental issues – and amidst ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Eleanor Catton rumpus
Thursday, 29 January 2015, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
If anyone was in doubt about the accuracy of the comments made in India by Eleanor Catton, the reaction from some quarters here at home has gone a long way to proving her point. By ‘some quarters’, I mean (a) RadioLive host Sean Plunket who called ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Sabin case, and pressures on Greece
Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Brain fades are one thing, but the brain freeze that seems to have beset the Prime Minister over the Mike Sabin affair is an even more worrying affliction. Sabin is a National MP, and the current chairman of Parliament’s law and order committee. More >>
Gordon Campbell on tomorrow’s speeches by Key and Little
Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
The Key government has already kicked off the political year on a stridently ideological note, with Environment Minister Nick Smith choosing to lay all manner of sins at the door of the Resource Management Act. Tomorrow, the government will wheeling out ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Saudi Arabia and Islamic State
Friday, 23 January 2015, 9:27 am | Gordon Campbell
So the US has been holding talks in London this week with its 21 coalition allies , on how best to co-ordinate the military response against Islamic State. Oddly enough, New Zealand has not been attending the conference even though we seem well down the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Greek election, and EU turmoil
Thursday, 22 January 2015, 9:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The election in Greece on Sunday – and the likely triumph of the left wing Syriza Party – will be only the first of three hammer blows this year to the European Union and its politics of austerity. Spain too will be holding a general election ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key and David Cameron
Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
This week, Prime Minister John Key was reportedly invited to join a private birthday celebration for the young daughter of British PM David Cameron. They’re that close, the Keys and the Camerons. For years now, David Cameron has been the closest available ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Ian Fletcher resignation & GCSB's new role
Thursday, 15 January 2015, 9:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Like most events in security intelligence, the resignation for “family reasons” of GCSB boss Ian Fletcher has got (a) a simple straightforward explanation and (b) a complex, conspiratorial one. It may well be that after being shoulder-tapped in ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Charlie Hebdo killings and response
Monday, 12 January 2015, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that the Kouachi brothers have made their Butch-and-Sundance dash for martyrdom, and now that the millions have marched in Paris and elsewhere to defend the Republic…. the events of the past week remain no closer to any comforting resolution. Some have ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the dumping of bad news at Christmas
Monday, 22 December 2014, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
If the government really did have good tidings of great joy you can bet it wouldn’t be strewing them about at Christmas time – which is, traditionally, the dumping ground for terrible news that the government fervently hopes the public will be too ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Pakistan schoolchildren killings
Thursday, 18 December 2014, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
The slaughter of the children in Pakistan is incomprehensibly awful. On the side, it has thrown a spotlight onto something that’s become a pop cultural meme. Fans of the Homeland TV series will be well aware of the collusion between sections of ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Sydney siege, and DHB budget cuts
Tuesday, 16 December 2014, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Whenever the authorities bring a siege situation to an end, there will be criticism if – as has happened in Sydney – any hostages are seriously hurt, or killed. The rationale for the Police decision to storm the café in Sydney will emerge later ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on income inequality, and Christmas songs
Friday, 12 December 2014, 4:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
As 2014 grinds to a close, we probably didn’t need one more reminder of this government’s ability to stare reality in the face and declare black to be a very fine shade of white. As you’re probably aware, the OECD has just released a research report that ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: hurdles to an extradition treaty with China
Tuesday, 9 December 2014, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
So China’s President Xi wants New Zealand to help them to extradite ‘corrupt’ Chinese officials who have fled here with their ill-gotten gains. Hey, who isn’t against corruption? Prejudge the question in that fashion and you automatically end ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on oil prices, and the Eric Garner killing
Friday, 5 December 2014, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
While Labour and National fiddle around with the powers of the security services – and warrantless surveillance is still an outrage even if it lasts for only 24 hours, Andrew Little - the big international story this week has been the plunge ... More >>
