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Gordon Campbell on New Zealand First’s loyalty pledge
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Like King Lear, Winston Peters and his courtiers in New Zealand First have chosen to demand a self-defeating expression of loyalty from prospective NZF candidates. In future, those selected to run for Parliament under the NZF banner will need to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the synthetic drugs ban
Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that synthetic cannabis is no longer legal, we can look back at our history with these products and see it as driven by New Zealand’s inability to implement a sensible drugs policy, overall. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Judith Collins’ rest & recuperation leave
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 10:51 am | Gordon Campbell
So Justice Minister Judith Collins is going to have four or five days off work from her $268,000 a year (plus perks) job; apparently, she feels in need of a breather from the stress of the self-inflicted problems arising from the Oravida scandal. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Williamson’s brand of after-sales services
Friday, 2 May 2014, 4:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
Poor, poor Maurice Williamson. Why is everybody picking on him for simply doing his job...which appears to include ensuring that special treatment is afforded to major donors to the National Party. With that noble aim in mind, Williamson rang up the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the TPP | Lorde whinging about journalism
Thursday, 1 May 2014, 11:30 am | Gordon Campbell
So after all the years of talk about “momentum” and claims that “significant progress” was being made - dutifully reported by the mainstream media - a conclusion to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal seems as far as away as ever. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s new economic plan
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 10:22 am | Gordon Campbell
As Labour’s shadow Finance Minister David Parker pointed out on RNZ this morning, New Zealand has led the way internationally by making the control of inflation the sole focus of its central bank - with the dire result that when property prices go ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Shane Jones departure
Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 3:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
Shane Jones has left Parliament in the manner to which we have become accustomed, with self interest coming in first and second, and with the interests of the Labour Party (under whose banner he served) way, way back down the track. More >>
Gordon Campbell: drone strikes & Judith Collins‘ last stand
Thursday, 17 April 2014, 10:55 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, US drone operators refer to their kills as "bug splat” - mainly because when the carnage is viewed on their screens thousands of kilometres away at home, it looks like an insect strike on a windscreen. The name has even been bestowed on ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the life & ACC work of Sir Owen Woodhouse
Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
With the death of Sir Owen Woodhouse, the founding father of the Accident Compensation Scheme, New Zealand has lost one of the titans of its post-war social policy. In its original incarnation in the early 1970s, ACC had been a globally innovative “no ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on royalty and its tourism spin-offs
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Ultimately the Queen’s longevity has been one of her most significant accomplishments. A transition to Prince Charles while the monarchy was in the pits of public esteem in the mid to late 1990s would have been disastrous for the Royal Firm. More >>
Gordon Campbell: failure to create a Labour/Greens alliance
Thursday, 10 April 2014, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
David Cunliffe won his current job by indicating he would be a Labour leader proud of his party’s left wing traditions. Since then, a question mark has been hanging over how Cunliffe would handle Labour’s relationship with the Greens during the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Narendra Modi, and the elections in India
Wednesday, 9 April 2014, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
On the upside, the gigantic election process that began yesterday in India is the largest exercise in democracy on the planet. Reportedly, a staggering five million people are employed, directly or indirectly, in the election process. More >>
Gordon Campbell on trade unions and Transpower
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
So much for the demonising of trade unions. As the dust setttles on the Global Financial Crisis, some US corporate leaders seem able to read the lessons of history. Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, has credited his company’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on this week’s election in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
In effect, there are three main candidates running in Afghanistan’s presidential election this week: the former diplomat Abdullah Abdullah, the former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani, and Zalmai Rassoul - who was, until last year, Foreign Minister ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ICJ whaling ban and security agencies
Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
The ban on Japan’s whaling programme ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a credit to Australia, who brought the case. Indirectly, it is also a victory for the Sea Shepherd group, whose activism doggedly kept global attention focused ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Mana and Dotcom
Friday, 28 March 2014, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, Mana leader Hone Harawira deserves a lot of credit for the disciplined way he has conducted his discussions with the Internet Party. Harawira has (a) explored whether a basis for co-operation exists (b) sought a bottom line agreement in ruling ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the EU/NZ trade deal
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
So Europe is “considering” whether to launch free trade discussions, with New Zealand; the parties plan to establish a scoping process and will hold talks next year and if all goes well, negotiations will proceed from there. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Crimea, Bennett, Dotcom and uses of history
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
So the US wants Russia to be banished “indefinitely” from the G-8 club for its actions in Crimea. Talk about gall. Astonishing to watch the US lecture Russian leader Vladimir Putin over its breaches of international law in the annexation of Crimea, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: imposing effective sanctions against Putin
Friday, 21 March 2014, 11:08 am | Gordon Campbell
For decades now, there has been a peace dividend from global trade. The more interdependent our economies become, the less likely we are to go to war, as we may have done in times past. Well, the crisis in the Crimea shows one of the downsides of those trade ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s currency deal with China
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
During Prime Minister John Key’s current visit to China, Key and Chinese premier Li Keqiang agreed to a deal that enables direct trading on the Chinese Foreign Exchange between the NZ dollar and the Chinese renimbi (aka yuan). More >>
