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Gordon Campbell on Ted Thomas and the Lombard case
Friday, 8 November 2013, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
It will not be until December, when the article on the Lombard case by retired judge Ted Thomas is finally published, that anyone one can assess whether Thomas is correct to conclude that the convictions of Sir Douglas Graham, Bill Jeffries and the other ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour Party annual conference
Monday, 4 November 2013, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
It seems to be a basic law of political thermodynamics that centre left parties can only ‘lurch’ or ‘swing’ when they begin to sound more assertive. This lateral motion always takes them further leftwards, allegedly in response to the primal, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the NSA spying scandal
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 11:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Not many winners in the NSA spy scandal, are there? Oh sure, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been reaping some political applause at home for standing up to the Americans - in polls, 62% of Germans approve of her stand - but even that support has been ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Reserve Bank, and Lou Reed's death
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
A curiously meandering interview on RNZ’s Business programme by Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler, this morning. During it, Wheeler shed crocodile tears on behalf of “consumers and investors” being hurt by the interest rate policy of central banks, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Meridian share float, and Anadarko
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
So only 62,000 investors have lined up to buy Meridian, even at the rock bottom price of $1.50 a share. That’s even after the process had been sweetened with a government subsidy - in a style more commonly associated with the likes of Noel Leeming or Harvey ... More >>
Gordon Campbell:America's Cup and convention centre handouts
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
According to Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce, Team New Zealand “is not a job for life” but it certainly seems the next best thing to it. For a sport that prides itself on its entrepreneurial edge, our America’s Cup efforts seem to be ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Police being above the law
Friday, 18 October 2013, 12:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
A lot of the time, policing is a difficult and unpleasant job and when its done well, the Police get little credit for doing it. However, no-one benefits - including the Police who are trying to do the job properly - when bad policing is insulated from ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: What John Banks & Nick Smith have in common
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 11:20 am | Gordon Campbell
The defence that John Banks has been offering to the charges of electoral fraud - that he didn’t read the document he signed, and therefore lacked the necessary criminal intent - is a fairly standard example of political business as usual. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Len Brown, trust, and Simon Bridges
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 11:25 am | Gordon Campbell
Leaving aside the tawdry details of Auckland mayor Len Brown’s extramarital affair, the oddest feature is the timing of the revelations. By Brown’s own account to John Campbell last night, the affair ended mid year, just before the election campaign ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US meltdown and welfare reform
Monday, 14 October 2013, 1:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
It seems incredible that a tiny faction of the Republican opposition in the US Senate can hold to ransom the entire country - and the global economy - unless their demands to re-write US law are met. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Cunliffe's speech, and the Lundy decision
Thursday, 10 October 2013, 11:38 am | Gordon Campbell
The style of David Cunliffe’s speech to the Council of Trade Unions conference yesterday was almost as important as the content. Plainly, Labour now has a leader able to deliver a message consistent with the party’s core values, in a clear and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on that alluringly elusive TPP trade deal
Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
How is this for a ‘cart before the horse’ notion of democracy, as practiced by the Key government? From the NZ Herald this morning: [Prime Minister John Key] is also indicating he wants a deal done as soon as possible so he can publicly discuss ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the media’s duty to evaluate the TPP
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
One downside of so called ‘objectivity’ is that it can turn the media into a simple megaphone for those in power - especially in situations where the media chooses to effectively abandon its role in evaluating the information it is being fed. The ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the shutdown of the US government
Friday, 4 October 2013, 12:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
Surely, isn’t it time for the Republican Party to be designated as a terrorist organisation? Their current shutdown of the federal government has been bad enough, but the jihad these fanatics have chosen to wage against the Obama administration ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key at the UN, and Breaking Bad
Monday, 30 September 2013, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Prime Minister John Key’s speech to the United Nations was aimed mainly at the audience back home, in a plucky, we’re punching above our weight sense. There’s us on the world stage, telling them what for. The content was unlikely to come as ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on muzzling the Ruataniwha dam evidence
Friday, 27 September 2013, 10:11 am | Gordon Campbell
In case anyone still questions the value of our public investment in state radio, the revelations about the Ruataniwha dam project - which began with an RNZ report into the suppression of Department of Conservation criticism - should be laying any ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour reshuffle
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Like a dog with a bone, the media can’t seem to let a good angle about the Labour team reshuffle die without a fight. It has to be a story of blood and vengeance, whatever the evidence to the contrary. In fact, you could make the exact reverse ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Nick Smith saga and the America’s Cup
Friday, 20 September 2013, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s attempts by Conservation Minister Nick Smith to nitpick his way out of the Ruataniwha scandal seem to have reached a stalemate. Smith continues to claim that he can credibly state he was unaware on September 17 of the existence of DOC’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Nick Smith undermining river quality
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 11:06 am | Gordon Campbell
The Ruataniwha dam proposed for Hawke’s Bay has been controversial on a number of counts, but the issues involved have just cranked up a whole new level. See if you can square these two positions - both of them to do with a critical Department ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the dubious mandate for asset sales
Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
The decision to proceed with the share float of Meridian Energy is outrageous enough, given that a referendum on the entire asset sales programme is pending - and the claims by Prime Minister John Key and SOE Ministers Tony Ryall to have a mandate ... More >>
