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Gordon Campbell on Helen Clark’s UN Secretary-General bid
Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Helen Clark’s informal campaign to succeed Ban Ki-Moon as UN Secretary-General is moving into a higher gear. Her June 11 interview on BBC’s Hard Talk programme has been widely seen as a bid for greater exposure, although she was tactfully modest ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s polling and Rio Tinto
Friday, 27 June 2014, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
The latest 3 News poll results has the combined Labour/Green bloc struggling at exactly 40%, still almost ten points behind National’s tally. (The poll recorded a 2.2% drop in Labour’s support to 27.3% and a similar-sized rise for the Greens to 12.7%, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: selective outrage about Al Jazeera jailings
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Yes, the jailing of the three Al Jazeera journalists is an outrage and the judicial process that convicted them was a farce. Reportedly the “evidence” produced by the prosecution that Australian journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Colin Craig’s move in East Coast Bays
Monday, 23 June 2014, 10:22 am | Gordon Campbell
The dancing-at-a-distance relationship between National and Colin Craig’s Conservative Party has just entered a new phase with the announcement that Craig will be contesting the East Coast Bays seat held by Foreign Minister Murray McCully. More >>
Gordon Campbell on David Cunliffe’s latest troubles
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Who knew that David Cunliffe’s speech to last year’s Labour Party conference was not a new beginning, but the last gasp of the credible phase of his leadership? In itself, his 2003 letter to the Immigration Service was innocuous. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s mandatory Kiwisaver plan
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
Labour’s compulsory Kiwisaver plan is its latest love letter to Winston Peters. First came the empty railing against immigration, now the idea of compulsory savings for everyone except those on very low incomes. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Obama’s need to engage with Iran
Monday, 16 June 2014, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Incredibly, the ISIS Sunni rebels who are currently butchering their way through northern Iraq are being financed by Saudi Arabia – supposedly a Western ally – and their advance is being halted by Shia militia who have been armed and trained ... More >>
Gordon Campbell:Sunni extremist state emerging in Iraq/Syria
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Back when they were trying to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration conjured up an entirely fictitious link between al-Qaeda and the Iraq of Saddam Hussein. Well, the Americans are now seeing that fantasy come true. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the John Banks verdict
Friday, 6 June 2014, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
So John Banks has been found guilty of knowingly signing off a fraudulent electoral return. It is an offence that carries a penalty – two years in jail or a $10,000 fine – that should indicate the will of Parliament that such offences be treated ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Greens carbon tax, and setbacks in Syria
Wednesday, 4 June 2014, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
A footnote to begin with, to do with the big story about the carbon tax policy unveiled on the weekend by the Greens. If you want to know where the Greens got the idea…it was almost certainly from the province of British Columbia in Canada, that enacted ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the rise of Laila Harré
Friday, 30 May 2014, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
So much for those – me included – who had viewed the Internet Party as the chaotic, chronically disorganised plaything of Kim Dotcom, and unlikely to last the distance until Election Day. The partnership with the Mana Party (the two parties will share ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the centre left lack of overt solidarity
Tuesday, 27 May 2014, 10:11 am | Gordon Campbell
For those of us who – at the time – argued (vainly) in favour of Labour and the Greens campaigning as a bloc in election year 2014, the weekend’s polls were an example of the political advantages that have gone a-begging. More >>
Gordon Campbell: NZ secretly agrees to extend copyright term
Thursday, 22 May 2014, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
So Labour MP Trevor Mallard has got himself in hot water with Speaker of the House David Carter for tweeting that Mr Speaker seemed to have been acting of late like a Mafia Don running a protection racket on behalf of his colleagues. More >>
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s role in US drone programme
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
So, thanks to our membership of the Five Eyes network, the GCSB spy agency has been supplying information on “persons of interest” in Afghanistan (at least) that may be used for targeting them in US drone strikes. More >>
Gordon Campbell on government’s inadequate housing policy
Monday, 19 May 2014, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
If the government has an Achilles heel going into this election it is in housing policy, where affordability has become a huge problem for a wide swathe of middle income and low income voters. In a classic “let them eat cake” response on RNZ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s ‘let them eat crumbs’ Budget
Friday, 16 May 2014, 5:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
Hate to hurt Bill English’s feelings, but yesterday’s Budget looked like a document the Labour Party might have written – and no, that’s not meant as a compliment. More >>
Gordon Campbell: New Zealand’s role in combatting Boko Haram
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 5:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s street protests in New Zealand main city centres about the kidnap of 276 girls in Nigeria by the fundamentalist group Boko Haram were a reminder of the problems New Zealand has in its stance towards terrorism. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Peters revelations
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 2:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
Once again, Winston Peters has failed to ignite on the launch pad. These days you have to go back almost 20 years - to the heady days of the Winebox - to find a time Peters actually delivered on his promises. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Peters revelations
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 2:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
Once again, Winston Peters has failed to ignite on the launch pad. These days you have to go back almost 20 years - to the heady days of the Winebox - to find a time Peters actually delivered on his promises. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the cash for access scandals
Friday, 9 May 2014, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
If nothing else, the rash of stories about cash-for-access (to the National Party) and cash-for-exit (from New Zealand First) are giving us a clear sense of the current market value of our democracy. It opens up all sorts of possibilities. If $300,000 ... More >>
