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Gordon Campbell on the smelter and its impact on asset sales
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 11:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Mum and Dad investors were supposed to be plain ordinary folks that the government was rewarding with the option of buying ...er, of re-buying a stake in the energy companies they already own. Not any more. Clearly, those ordinary Mums and Dads will ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US injustice that Dotcom faces
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
This month’s Werewolf cover story is about the Kim Dotcom extradition case and is available here, but there’s an interesting footnote…This week, ABC television news in the States ran an AP story about how and why the Eastern Virginia District ... More >>
Will Kim Dotcom get a raw deal at his extradition hearing?
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
The world used to be a simpler, black and white place. The fugitives being sought for extradition used to be alleged bank robbers or murderers or fraudsters where – once the false moustache and dyed hair had been done away with – it was obvious ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on latest falling out among Syria’s rebels
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Routinely, US foreign policy in the Middle East seems to suffer from a karmic backlash. Ten years ago, the Iraq invasion was supposed to produce a democratic state that further isolate Iran’s Shia revolution. Instead, the March 2003 invasion has installed ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Susan Devoy, and the Gillard non-coup
Friday, 22 March 2013, 9:51 am | Gordon Campbell
It is hard to tell which aspect of Susan Devoy becoming Race Relations Commissioner is worse. Was it the selection of someone who plainly has no skills for a job requiring tolerance and empathy – or was it the rationalisation offered by Justice Minister ... More >>
Campbell: The official plan to steal from your bank account
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Put your money in the bank, not under the mattress. That’s always been a mantra, especially for people who don’t want to speculate in property or the sharemarket, and who don’t want to run the risk of putting their savings into shonky finance ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Solid Energy debacle
Friday, 15 March 2013, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
So according to its former chairman John Palmer, Solid Energy could have done nothing about the sudden and dramatic fall in the price of coal. Move on, no one to blame here. It was just like the Christchurch earthquake, an act of nature. Except of course, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the new Pope
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 3:45 pm | Gordon Campbell
The Jorge Mario Bergoglio who became Pope Francis earlier today must be quite accustomed to being the compromise choice, and the least divisive of the options available. He’s certainly been there before. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Papal frontrunner’s views on feminism, LGBT
Friday, 8 March 2013, 10:02 am | Gordon Campbell
Outsiders watching the Catholic Church as it engages in choosing its next leader should be feeling alarmed at the emergence of Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan as the papal frontrunner. Despite the cliché that frontrunners never win the papacy (‘He ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Hugo Chavez, and the TPP
Thursday, 7 March 2013, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Hugo Chavez has been an example of how much a Third World nation can achieve when it takes control of its natural resources from the US and its corporate allies, and uses them to benefit its own people and the region. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the IRD victory against tax avoidance
Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
The double standard on how we treat tax avoidance (leniently) as opposed to how we treat welfare fraud (very harshly) came under the spotlight again yesterday. The good news is that our courts seem to be cracking down on the tax avoidance problem, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on UN hypocrisy towards Richard Prosser
Tuesday, 5 March 2013, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
The United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination described Prosser's comments as "inflammatory" and urged a stronger line from the Government. More >>
Gordon Campbell on what John Key's trip to Latin America
Monday, 4 March 2013, 11:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Let's hope Prime Minister John Key looks and listens during this week’s overseas trip to Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. There’s so much he could learn. In Brazil, Key could benefit from seeing the steps this economic powerhouse is taking ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest spasm of welfare bashing
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Just over a week ago in the United Kingdom, the Guardian ran an article entitled “Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance.” Pretty self explanatory title. The article points out that while people in the UK believe welfare ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Audit Office report on SkyCity deal
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
This is how we do political business in New Zealand. First, Prime Minister John Key told the relevant officials to stop their scoping process for a convention centre in Auckland because a “broad awareness” had arisen in his mind that SkyCity had ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: schools closures, Afghanistan and Hollywood
Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 9:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Isn’t it time we closed down Education Minister Hekia Parata, or at least merged her with Anne Tolley and cut our losses? The timing, speed and substance of yesterday’s interim decisions about school closures were all dubious. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Richard Prosser, and West Papua
Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 11:22 am | Gordon Campbell
Richard Prosser has been slammed for his racism by everyone except his leader. Normally, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is anxiously hyper-sensitive about what the rest of the world might think if, for instance, New Zealand is seen as ‘soft’ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the politics of Papal selection
Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 9:44 am | Gordon Campbell
The very public physical deterioration of his predecessor John Paul II during his final years may well have been a factor in Benedict XVI‘s shock decision to resign. Certainly, the steely temperament and intellectual prowess of the former Cardinal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Key’s offer to take in Aussie boat people
Monday, 11 February 2013, 10:01 am | Gordon Campbell
In the past, successive Labour and National led governments have been happy to use the poisonous term “ queue jumping” to describe people trying to exercise their UN Refugee Convention-based right to reach these shores and claim political asylum. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Steven Joyce in Wonderland, and drones
Friday, 8 February 2013, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Lewis Carroll would have had a fine old time with our job figures, and the anxious debate that has broken out about them. Unemployment is down – that sounds good! – but that’s only because so many have given up hope, which sounds rather bad. More >>
