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Gordon Campbell on the future funding of Olympics sport
Monday, 13 August 2012, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
So the Olympics has come and gone amid the usual “ hese were the best Games ever” accolades that seem the automatic verdict issued every four years, with Atlanta in 1996 being the exception that proves the rule. How did New Zealand do? More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s recent mid-flight turbulence
Thursday, 9 August 2012, 10:16 am | Gordon Campbell
It has been quite a week for Labour, on three counts at least. First came the signs in the polls that the recent slide in support for the Key government – which had raised Labour hopes that the second term blues would become an avalanche leading ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on waste involved in staying in Afghanistan
Monday, 6 August 2012, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
In the wake of the weekend’s deadly attack on New Zealand forces in Afghanistan, the interesting aspect of the political response has been the across-the-board acceptance (from the Greens as well) that this attack should not change the timetable for withdrawal. More >>
Gordon Campbell on successes of student strikers in Quebec
Friday, 3 August 2012, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
If anyone is still wondering what happened to the energies and the organising principles that drove the Occupy movement – or if they’re merely wanting to be re-assured that neo-liberalism can be successfully resisted – they should be looking at the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National's reversion to type on gender
Friday, 27 July 2012, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
Surprisingly to some, Labour women’s affairs spokesperson Sue Moroney is showing a genuine ability to get up the nose of the government, as she goes about wiping the floor with Women’s Affairs Minister Jo Goodhew. This began long before National’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: US conservatives show how to respond to TPP
Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
It isn’t often that we see how the United States feels when it sees itself on the receiving end of a secretive international treaty process – you know, one akin to the Trans Pacific Partnership process that alarms many New Zealanders. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the media’s sales job on asset sales
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 11:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, what an exciting weekend it must have been for the nation’s media. After a 2012 full, thus far, of gaffes, resignations, dodgy dealings at ACC and widely unpopular policies from the government, our press elite went into the National Party ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the media’s sales job on asset sales
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 11:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, what an exciting weekend it must have been for the nation’s media. After a 2012 full, thus far, of gaffes, resignations, dodgy dealings at ACC and widely unpopular policies from the government, our press elite went into the National Party ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the death of Alexander Cockburn
Monday, 23 July 2012, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
Alexander Cockburn would probably be amused and annoyed that his death in Germany at the weekend will attract a mere fraction of the accolades heaped on his one-time colleague Christopher Hitchens six months ago. But then, amused outrage was Cockburn's ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: KiwiRail’s outsourcing bungle with Chinese
Friday, 20 July 2012, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
So the brake pads on every single one of the 500 freight wagons delivered to KiwiRail by its favoured Chinese supplier have had to be replaced. When fully loaded, they evidently couldn’t stop in a safe period of time. Wow. What was in the contracts ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on disinterest in violence against women
Wednesday, 18 July 2012, 10:47 am | Gordon Campbell
I t seems a simple enough concept; counselling is meant to help victims to recover from their experience. The conditions for getting access to counselling are not supposed to leave the claimant feeling so re-traumatised that they give up and go without ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the $200m bill for roading consultants
Monday, 16 July 2012, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
In this time of fiscal austerity, some people are being asked to be more austere than others. Thus, the news on RNZ this morning that transport consultants have been paid over $200 million since 2009 for investigation and design work on five of New ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Tariana Turia faces a Katie Holmes moment
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
The Maori Party’s relationship with National is looking more and more like that of a battered spouse, a pitiable creature who will swallow any indignity in return for the few crumbs of what the relationships once promised to offer. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the job losses at KiwiRail
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
So KiwiRail is about to cut up to 220 jobs by October, and SOE Minister Tony Ryall has refused to front up to explain what is going on here. After declining an interview request from RNZ this morning, Ryall’s office issued a limp one line statement, ... More >>
Campbell: Private sector delivery an inter-generational scam
Friday, 6 July 2012, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Public private partnerships (PPPs) are still being envisaged by the Key government’s as its favoured method for financing new schools, motorways etc, but the experience in Britain with such schemes continues to be really disturbing. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the lack of context in our news bulletins
Thursday, 5 July 2012, 9:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Television news is notorious for having no memory, and little room for history or context. The average news bulletin consists of a series of talking heads standing in front of the latest footage of weeping crime victims/storms/plane crashes/war ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on drug testing for those on benefits
Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
During the past month, how many people working in the Parliamentary precinct might have engaged in recreational drug use that impaired their performance on the job? In the same period, has any MP ever consumed alcohol to a point where they would ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Dotcom/Obamacare rulings & Star Trek
Friday, 29 June 2012, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
A good morning for the rule of law. The High Court here finds the search of Kim Dotcom’s house to have been illegal and ditto for the seizure of his belongings. While in the US, the Supreme Court reined in its self-destructive tendency to rule along politically ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the government’s new social targets
Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 9:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Imagine this wacky, unbelievable scenario. Prime Minister John Key announces that for too long, too many people earning over $100,000 have been paying too little tax, and he’s going to do something about it. From now on, he wants to see IRD boosting ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the incentive payments at ACC
Friday, 22 June 2012, 9:49 am | Gordon Campbell
The chances of achieving culture change at the Accident Compansation Corporation would seem to be almost zero if those in charge of the organisation cannot see that when you create a system of paying staff a bonus to cull ACC claimants, then this ... More >>
