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On The Government’s Latest Ferries Scam
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 1:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
Has Winston Peters got a ferries deal for you! One of the contract bidders, South Korea’s vast Hyundai-Mipo Dockyard (HMD) held the initial contract for Labour’s iRex ferries, and this has to give HDM a unique ability to dictate the terms of where ... More >>
On The Americanising Of NZ’s Public Health System
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 1:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
One of the odd aspects of the government's plan to Americanise the public health system – i.e by making healthcare access more reliant on user pay charges and private health insurance – is that it is happening in plain sight. More >>
On Israel’s Murderous Relapse, And Peters’ Sad Decline
Monday, 24 March 2025, 1:26 pm | Gordon Campbell
Israel has reverted to slaughtering civilians, starving children and welshing on the terms of the peace deal negotiated earlier this year. The IDF’s current offensive seems to be intended to render Gaza unlivable, preparatory (perhaps) to re-occupation ... More >>
On Winston Peters’ Bad Trip, And The Return Of The PPPs Zombie
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
The epic importance of Winston Peters’ talks in Washington this week doesn’t seem to have culminated in anything more than us expressing our “concern” to the Americans about a series of issues that are already done and dusted. Tariffs? More >>
On Luxon’s Survival Chances, And The India FTA
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Whenever Christopher Luxon drops a classically fatuous clanger or whenever the government has a bad poll – i.e. every week – the talk resumes that he is about to be rolled. This is unlikely for several reasons. For starters, there is no successor. More >>
On Winston Peters’ Battle Against The Phantom Legions Of The Woke
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
In a month’s time, the Right Honourable Winston Peters will be celebrating his 80th birthday. Good for him. On the evidence though, his current war on “wokeness” looks like an old man’s cranky complaint that the ancient virtues of grit and know-how ... More >>
On The Government’s Stubborn Refusal To Invest For Growth
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 11:38 am | Gordon Campbell
As Simplicity economist Shamubeel Eaqub pointed out recently, the coalition government is trying to attract foreign investment here to generate economic growth, while – simultaneously – cutting back drastically on its own investment in our economy. More >>
On Why GP Practices Are In Crisis
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 12:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
Can we please have some context for the government’s hand-on-heart claims of caring about the health and well-being of ordinary “Kiwis”? In the real world, the rising cost of going to the doctor means that many of those “Kiwis” cannot afford to ... More >>
On Why Having Elections Less Often Is A Bad Idea
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 12:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
Are we feeling the country is in such capable hands, that we can afford to take a longer break between elections? Outside the parliamentary bubble and a few corporate boardrooms, surely there are not many people who think that voters have too much More >>
On School Lunches, And The Coalition Government Eating The Young
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 1:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
The school lunches saga gets worse by the day. If ACT leader David Seymour can’t/won’t now admit that this brainchild of his is a total disaster...what more evidence pray, does he need? Do children have to die in the school cafeteria before Seymour will More >>
On Why Our China Panic Is About To Get Expensive
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 12:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
Allegedly, the defence environment has changed, and New Zealand thus needs to spend significantly more on Defence. The rationale is that China (our main trading partner) has been raising its profile in the Pacific, a region hitherto seen to be our own ... More >>
On The Fall And Rise Of Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 9:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Good to see that this year, the New Zealand film societies are celebrating what would have been Sam Peckinpah’s 100th birthday with what they are calling “Peckinpah’s West” – a tribute consisting of screenings of The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett More >>
On Why Europe Is Being Made To Go It Alone
Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 11:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that the US has ripped up the Atlantic alliance, Europe is more vulnerable now than at any time since the mid-1930s. Apparently, Europe and Ukraine itself will not have a seat at the table in the talks between US President Trump and Vladimir ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Why “golden Visas” Are A Losing Bet On Growth
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
For obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to wealthy foreigners. Even selling the right to residency seems a bit dubious. For obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Surviving The 47th US President
Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 1:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Three weeks in, and the 24/7 news cycle is not helping anyone feel calm and informed about the second Trump presidency. After only three weeks, it is already exhausting. The media is being propelled into a sustained state of Attention Deficit Disorder. More >>
On The Government’s Epic Fails In Jobs And Housing
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 12:55 pm | Gordon Campbell
Through its austerity measures, the coalition government has engineered a rise in unemployment in order to reduce inflation while – simultaneously – cracking down harder and harder on the people thrown out of work by its own policies. More >>
Gordon Campbell On Trump’s Tariff Wars
Monday, 3 February 2025, 1:51 pm | Gordon Campbell
Trump being Trump, it won’t come as a shock to find that he regards a strong USD (bolstered by high tariffs on everything made by foreigners) as a sign of America’s virility, and its ability to kick sand in the face of the world. Reality is a tad ... More >>
DeepSeek, And China’s Inexorable Rise
Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 1:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
The week’s big story has been about China’s DeepSeek low-cost AI model. Because DeepSeek requires fewer advanced chips, its advent has had a huge impact on the fortunes of US chip-making giant, Nvidia – which immediately lost $600 billion of its value. More >>
On The Government’s Gaslighting About Growth
Monday, 27 January 2025, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Trump and Luxon have in common a lack of any experience in how to kick-start economic growth, especially in the wake of a recession. Their real expertise lies in deal-making i.e. in the re-packaging of wealth that’s been created by others, and on selling ... More >>
On The Looming Conflicts Within The Trump Presidency
Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
How long is it going to take for the MAGA faithful to realise that those titans of Big Tech and venture capital sitting up close to Donald Trump this week are not their allies, but The Enemy? After all, the MAGA crowd are the angry victims left behind ... More >>
