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Gordon Campbell on free contraception for beneficiary poor
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
If one can be grateful for small mercies, at least young women on benefits will not be forced into (a) having compulsory contraceptive implants fitted into their arms or( b) having IUDs installed as a pre-condition for receiving state support for their ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Govt’s self-defeating plan for universities
Monday, 7 May 2012, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Steven Joyce happens to hold a set of portfolios central to the country’s economic planning and future direction. Joyce is the Minister of Economic Development, the Tertiary Education Minister and the Minister of Science and Technology. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Steven Joyce’s student loans debacle
Friday, 4 May 2012, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
O f all the ways of trying to save “up to” $60-70 million – and that’s only if he’s very, very lucky - Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has made a real hash of it. Joyce has decided to change the student loan scheme in a fashion ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Banks’ unpleasant options
Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
A bunker mentality is becoming evident in the Act Party’s response to its current crisis – as in Berlin bunker, 1945. A reluctant admission of just how bad things are is finally seeping in, but that’s still inseparable from a high level of self-pity, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Key. Ethics and Banks
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 1:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
Disclosure rules exist in local body legislation for the public’s benefit, not the benefit of politicians. Yet the explicit message from yesterday’s press post-Cabinet conference was that Prime Minister John Key is willing to condone unethical behaviour, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the John Banks vs Kim Dotcom saga
Monday, 30 April 2012, 10:02 am | Gordon Campbell
Is it too soon to start talking about the curse of the Act Party leadership? The toll at the top is becoming quite alarming….Rodney Hide, Don Brash, and now John Banks is in trouble. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest Hobbit revelations
Friday, 27 April 2012, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
This morning’s release by RNZ of its OIA requests on The Hobbit is not ancient history . More >>
Gordon Campbell on govt's responsibility for Christchurch
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 9:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Like events in some 19th century Russian novel, hardship in Christchurch keeps grinding on, while the powers-that-be appear quite indifferent to the suffering occurring all around them. For months, the shortage of housing and the related escalation in ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The dubious case for the convention centre
Monday, 23 April 2012, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
For now, Labour and the Greens are not opposing the convention centre in Auckland per se , but are asking for the tendering process to be re-opened. That would, at least, enable a more up to date public examination of the business case for the convention ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on where government could be saving millions
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 9:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Ever since the last White Paper in 2010, Defence has been putting its staff through the wringer in a cost reduction exercise so demoralising that aspects of the plan now seem to be in jeopardy. A major part of this plan has involved taking some of ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on public service contracting, and the veto
Thursday, 12 April 2012, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
It is always dangerous to base a story on personal experience… So this is being offered mainly out of curiosity, to see whether anyone out there has had coalface experience of what this anecdote is about. Here goes. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the govt’s new PPP deal in education
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
Supposedly, the big advantage of public/private partnerships is that they will bring the alleged efficiencies of the private sector to projects that involve public money – but here’s the catch. In the PPP deal on education announced yesterday, we’re ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Gerry Brownlee & Christchurch recovery
Thursday, 5 April 2012, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Famously, Winston Churchill once described one of his American political allies as being “the only bull I know who carries his own china shop around with him.” Alas, Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee manages the same trick – hello ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on corporate manslaughter, French elections
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, the Pike River inquiry heard renewed calls for a criminal charge of corporate manslaughter to be put on the books in New Zealand. “Some of the issues canvassed in the evidence [about Pike River] once again raise feeling among the public,” ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on charter schools, and DoL mining backdown
Monday, 2 April 2012, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Years ago and in a more innocent time, whenever advertising agencies wanted to spice up a product for local consumers they would use the word “ American” in the pitch – because back then, the United States was taken to be synonymous with all that ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Supreme Court’s mauling of Obamacare
Friday, 30 March 2012, 10:25 am | Gordon Campbell
It's been 12 years since the last shamelessly partisan verdict by the conservative- dominated US Supreme Court when – after the 2000 election – they gift-wrapped the Presidency and handed it to George W. Bush. Yet this week’s oral hearings by ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Chinese cyber security threat
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
On paper, the decisions to partner with the Chinese firm Huawei in the roll out of ultra fast broadband (and rural broadband) in New Zealand were taken locally, by the Enable Networks in Christchurch, and by WEL Networks in the Waikato. Yet could ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on The Hunger Games, and body image
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Earlier this year, Next magazine published a scary survey on the body image of young New Zealand women, a story that prompted Labour MP Sue Moroney to issue a press release in mid February (“ The Beauty Myth Needs Busting Again”) that lamented the lack ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on CEO public sector pay, and North Korea
Monday, 26 March 2012, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
This morning’s NZ Herald story about the massive pay hikes for chief executives in the public service knocks a hole in the rationale for the government’s programme of public sector cutbacks. More >>
Gordon Campbell on McCully’s latest debacle, and fracking
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
So Nick Smith has fallen on his sword, while dutifully covering for John Key’s leadership inadequacies on this issue as he did so. At the outset, Key had tried to sweep the entire affair under the carpet by describing Smith’s main transgression ... More >>
