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Gordon Campbell on the GCSB Bill protests and the Royal Baby
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Tomorrow, the parliamentary committee that heard submissions on the GCSB Bill will report back. Few will be expecting significant changes to this egregious betrayal of our civil rights and national sovereignty. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Peter Dunne’s illusory gains on GCSB Bill
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
In a week that will see nationwide protests against the GCSB, the politics of the passage of the agency’s governing legislation remain as polarized as ever. Now that Peter Dunne has re-assumed his usual posture as the government’s reliable ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the TPP's risk to national sovereignty
Thursday, 18 July 2013, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the countries who sign up to it, if said corporates happen to feel disadvantaged by any laws or regulations ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the SIS, and Auckland transport
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
At what point did the SIS lose the technological ability to fulfil its statutory duty, which is to detect and to counter threats to our domestic security? Surely, out of its annual budget, the SIS should have been setting aside the funds required ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ‘conscience’ vote on the SkyCity deal
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Gambling, for all the social evils that it can bring in its wake, is a legal activity enjoyed by many. And during night’s debate in Parliament on Te Ururoa Flavell’s Gambling Amendment Bill (a Bill that has been gutted at select committee of all its ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asset sales contortions, GCSB and Jay Z
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Hope you’ve got it straight now. Treasury said $100 million from the Mighty River Power sales proceeds had been earmarked to prop up Solid Energy’s “recovery facilities” – although John Key said it hadn’t been, and that Labour’s Clayton Cosgrove ... More >>
Gordon Campbell:Key’s proud claim to being the village idiot
Friday, 5 July 2013, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly we – and that includes Kim Dotcom - have been giving Prime Minister John Key too much credit. Everyone assumed that a smart guy like Key would know his stuff, and would be in touch with what’s going on. Not the case, Mr Key is insisting. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Dotcom’s contribution to our security laws
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
While Kim Dotcom’s appearance was the highlight of yesterday’s hearings by the Intelligence and Security Committee, his commentary on the GCSB Bill was in sync with the flaws in the draft Bill identified earlier in the afternoon by other submitters, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Kim Dotcom at Parliament tomorrow
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Ironic that in the same week that Kim Dotcom will appear before a Parliamentary committee to defend the right of New Zealanders to live free from surveillance from the GCSB, Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in Russia. (Reportedly, Russian leader Vladimir ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Syria, RNZ and Michael Shannon
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Since the Arab Spring began, the rebellion in Syria has been the only one to evolve into full scale civil war, and still is the only conflict with the potential to shape the politics of the entire Middle East. More >>
Gordon Campbell: everyone's stake in surveillance reduction
Friday, 14 June 2013, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
In a week dominated by surveillance and privacy issues, the Economist has done its level best to rationalize why Barack Obama has chosen to expand the surveillance state . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Speaker’s lifeline to Peter Dunne
Friday, 7 June 2013, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Whatever wiggle room exists under Standing Orders, yesterday’s ruling by Speaker David Carter on the Peter Dunne funding scandal will have done nothing for the tattered reputation of Parliament among the general public. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest Novopay revelations
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 10:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Poor lambs. They were led astray by shockingly poor advice from their officials. All of it was an operational failure within the Education Ministry and the State Services Commission, folks. Yes, according to the Novopay ministerial inquiry, the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on racism, and the Nisbet cartoons
Friday, 31 May 2013, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Interesting how quickly the debate on Al Nisbet’s cartoons has shifted from the actual content – and the implications if, as claimed, Nisbet has said aloud what many other New Zealanders privately think – to the far more comfortable grounds ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on social experiments on education
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
The school closures in Christchurch really are a perfect storm – the most stressed community in New Zealand is being led by the most accident prone Minister in the Key government, into a social experiment on its youngest and most vulnerable, in ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the govt’s latest bout of hippie punching
Monday, 27 May 2013, 11:20 am | Gordon Campbell
On the weekend at one of those gatherings of the National party faithful that seem to occur every other week – as a party the Nats sure do know how to party – Prime Minister John Key unmasked the arch fiend who threatens the New Zealand that we know ... More >>
Campbell:failures of care for those with mental disabilities
Friday, 24 May 2013, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Hard to imagine a more disturbing insight into the treatment of the vulnerable than the Health Ministry report on Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau. The Ministry has found that the country's only kaupapa Maori intellectual disability residential care provider ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Govt tramples on rights of family carers
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Don’t want to be unduly alarmist about this, but we seem to have an outlaw government on our hands – if by that we mean a government willing to suspend the ability of citizens to seek the courts’ protection if and when the government violates freedoms ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the 2013 Budget
Friday, 17 May 2013, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The Budget lockup retains a symbolic value these days, but little more than that. This is the government’s best annual opportunity to bury its usual screw-ups and regale the public with power-pointed examples of its vision, shrewd thrift and judicious ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on stonewalling about the GCSB, and MMP
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
This week has seen two examples of turkeys refusing to vote for an early Christmas – while busily denying the evident self interest involved. First, the GCSB is refusing to identify the 88 people it has illegally spied upon – as revealed in the Kitteridge ... More >>
