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Gordon Campbell on National’s election fling with NZ First
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Anyone who felt surprised by yesterday’s announcements about who National sees as being its compatible coalition partners after the last election would have to be either naive, or asleep at the wheel. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Housing as an Election Issue
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
According to a recent international study New Zealand is one of the least affordable places on Earth to own a house, given that the study’s authors estimate that house prices in Auckland are running at roughly 8 times a median income of $75,000. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Dotcom, and recent events at Scoop
Thursday, 16 January 2014, 10:03 am | Gordon Campbell
The apparent resignation of Alistair Thompson from Scoop - there seems to be some dissent as to whether he has resigned or gone on sabbatical - was triggered by the release of information about his involvement with Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the (lack of) incentives for Anadarko
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 11:08 am | Gordon Campbell
Here’s how you’d think the system would work, when it comes down to the environmental impacts of oil and gas exploration. You’d hope and expect that a good carrot and stick regime would be in place, right? Well, the carrots are obvious enough ; the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Act's latest round of leadership ructions
Monday, 13 January 2014, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Call me old fashioned, but the recent versions of the Act Party almost make you feel nostalgic for the days of its youth. Back in the 1990s, Act were happy to be seen as a bunch of Randian enthusiasts brimful of certainty that once New Zealand ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on not letting the year 2014 spoil Christmas
Monday, 23 December 2013, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the pitfalls of instant opinionating is the assumption that politicians know what they’re doing and that the job at hand is to unravel the conspiracies that surely behind the daily litany of brazen pandering. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the new level of film industry incentives
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 11:41 am | Gordon Campbell
If Treasury ideologues had been around back in the day, we would still be waiting for the private sector to build a road and rail system in New Zealand beyond a few cherry-picked main centres important to commerce. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Rebstock investigation of MFAT leaks
Friday, 13 December 2013, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Having spent $510,000 of taxpayer money on her investigation into the extent and source of leaks about the controversial Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade “Change” programme, Paula Rebstock and her team of sleuths might be expected to have come ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: TPP leaks | Our treatment of asylum seekers
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 11:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Even before this week’s leaks via Wikileaks about the current state of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, there were signs the deal was in trouble. As Werewolf has been reporting for months, precious little progress was being made on this deal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on oil drilling permits, and Iris Dement
Friday, 6 December 2013, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, the government unveiled the latest round of oil permits. Five of them are located onshore in Taranaki and the East Coast, but five are located offshore, in the Reinga-Northland, Taranaki, and Great South Canterbury Basins. More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Banks, and blogging’s merits
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
It is hard to feel sorry for John Banks. Sorry, I’ll start that again. It would be easy to feel sorry for John Banks in his current sorry plight...unless and until one re-reads the passage in David Fisher’s excellent book The Secret Life of Kim ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s PISA education rankings
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 11:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Perhaps a bit more scepticism about the PISA results could be healthy. Surely, shouldn’t we should feel misgivings about a test that claims to measure the relative competence of reading writing and maths skills by students within the education systems of the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asset sales, and the Cameron Slater case
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Much of the criticism of the asset sales programme has focussed - quite justifiably - on how it will increase income inequality in this country, with all its social ills. Less evidently, the partial asset sales also doubles down on an earlier exercise ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on new Pope’s criticisms of the free market
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Everyone likes the new Pope, right? Seems a nice guy, a humble man of the people, has a good sense of humour etc etc. A big change in style (at least) from the frosty German who preceded him, however similar their views may still be on abortion and ... More >>
Campbell on NZ’s obligations to victims of climate change
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 11:31 am | Gordon Campbell
When the UN Refugee Convention was passed in 1951, climate change was unimaginable. In those days and in the shadow of WWII, the focus was on establishing the obligations that UN member countries have to protect people fleeing from systematic violations ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on MPs’ pay hikes | JFK conspiracy theories
Friday, 22 November 2013, 12:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
The charade of bogus “independence" by the Remuneration Authority has produced the latest round of backdated Christmas bonuses for MPs, Cabinet Mionisters and the Prime Minister, whose salary will rise from $419,300 to $428,500. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Failure of regulatory oversight of Anadarko
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
The controversial Texas oil company Anadarko are due to commence exploration drilling off the coast of Raglan this week. Now, you would think that any public concerns about its activities - say for example, over the adequacy of the company’s response ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the “mandate” for the Air NZ selldown
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
The last time Air New Zealand got into serious trouble was through its investment in Ansett Australia during the late 1990s - an investment touted by one Air New Zealand executive at the time as offering “a unique opportunity to substantially enhance ... More >>
Werewolf Edition #44 : Referendum On A Robbery
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 8:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Hi and welcome to the 44th edition of Werewolf. Our cover story this month has been timed to co-incide with the looming Citizens Initiated Referendum on the government's asset sales programme . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the preventable injuries from quad bikes
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Another coronial inquiry into a series of deaths from quad bikes, another call for better safety protection measures to be put in place: he coroner’s recommendations included: dropping of the term "all-terrain vehicle" and using quad bikes to refer ... More >>
