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Gordon Campbell on our response to Syrian jihadis
Tuesday, 11 February 2014, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
So Prime Minister John Key has removed the passports of a few would-be jihadis from New Zealand wishing to join rebel factions in Syria. In doing so, Key is echoing a concern among several European countries that the civil war in Syria has become ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Obama’s domestic problems with the TPP
Friday, 7 February 2014, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
On Wednesday, I reported on a local analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, which argued, among other things, that the TPP is not primarily a trade deal at all - but more of a package of entitlements for US corporates and financiers. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the alleged gains to NZ from the TPP
Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
The fog of secrecy around the Trans Pacific Partnership has always triggered concern about what New Zealand may be willing to give away in these talks, without any substantive Parliamentary debate of these concessions beforehand. More >>
Gordon Campbell on further changes at Scoop
Monday, 3 February 2014, 12:44 pm | Gordon Campbell
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about the involvement of Alastair Thompson, Scoop’s founding editor, with Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party. The errors of judgement made at the time have been amply canvassed in this column and elsewhere. Those mistakes ... More >>
Campbell on Slater, Lorde and media’s (lack of) boundaries
Friday, 31 January 2014, 4:07 pm | Gordon Campbell
If Cameron Slater was a beached whale, the volunteers likely to show up to help him off the beach would almost certainly be limited to close friends and immediate family, judging by the fallout from his latest escapade. More >>
Gordon Campbell: David Cunliffe's State of the Nation speech
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
In the world of thankless jobs, being the Leader of the Opposition is right up there. It involves being the eternal suitor – always trying to look strikingly different on one hand but credibly reliable on the other, while being unable to make a shred ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Govt’s plans for incentivising teachers
Friday, 24 January 2014, 9:23 am | Gordon Campbell
It may still be only January, but the first of the election year goodies has just been unveiled. Hard to argue with an extra $359 million for teacher pay, spread over four years. No doubt, this helps to explain the guarded optimism with which the PPTA ... More >>
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 >>
