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Gordon Campbell on the mixed-ownership model
Tuesday, 6 March 2012, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
By focussing on the spectre of foreign ownership, the critics of the partial asset sales process have been inadvertedly helping the government, by deflecting attention from a more urgent issue : the price that ordinary New Zealanders are going to receive ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Rick Santorum
Thursday, 1 March 2012, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, Mitt Romney won narrowly yesterday in Michigan, the family fiefdom that goes back all the way to when his father George ran General Motors and used that platform to became governor of the state. More >>
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s welfare reform announcements
Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
We’ve all become more politically literate the hard way over the last couple of decades. The words “efficient” and “greater efficiency” for instance, has been forced into service so many times that’s they’re now a genuine alarm signal ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Rudd vs Gillard contest
Monday, 27 February 2012, 9:25 am | Gordon Campbell
In its last suicidal spasm this morning, the Australian Labor Party caucus seems certain to choose Julia Gillard to lead it to annihilation at the next election. True to form, Gillard and her supporters have been blaming almost all their failures ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Kiwirail’s Chinese-built wagon problems
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
For many people, Kiwirail’s decision to buy 500 flat top wagons from manufacturers in China instead of building them at Hillside workshops in Dunedin was a classic case of New Zealand chasing short term cost savings from overseas providers at the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the looming “pre-emptive” war on Iran
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Iran’s rulers preside over one of the most thuggish, repressive regimes on the planet, but the West’s apparent readiness to go to war over Iran’s nuclear programme is a hair-raising over-reaction. Somehow, the nuclear club that can regard its own ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Crafar Farms ruling and the China FTA
Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on comparing the Crafar Farms court ruling with the China/NZ Free Trade Agreement More >>
Gordon Campbell on the government’s inertia on housing needs
Monday, 20 February 2012, 9:38 am | Gordon Campbell
The weekend protests about Housing New Zealand’s Tamaki Transformation programme (which aims to relocate residents of 156 state house to make way for a mix of state owned and privately owned housing) are merely the tip of the iceberg of Auckland’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asset sales and the Mallard ticket saga
Friday, 17 February 2012, 9:22 am | Gordon Campbell
Way back at the start of this week, the government was in deep trouble on at least three fronts. First, came the bombshell court ruling that Ministers had been mistakenly advised to accept the Chinese bid for Crafar farms. Secondly, Finance Minister Bill ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Crafar Ruling and Asset Sales
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, even when you’ve got a rubber stamp, the rubber can still fall off the stamp. That’s what happened yesterday to the Overseas Investment Office. Its recommendation to ministers that the government should accept the Chinese bid for the Crafar farms ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the plan to scrap jury trials
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 9:35 am | Gordon Campbell
Chances are, scrapping the system of trial by jury is not the top priority for most New Zealanders. Not many of us woke up this morning and felt dead keen on dumping our centuries-old right to be tried by a jury of our peers, while yearning to adopt ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Syria
Monday, 13 February 2012, 9:29 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, the fighting in Syria has largely been limited to its smaller cities – Homs in particular. Aside from a few isolated incidents the revolt has not yet spread to major cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. All the same, as Syria expert Joshua ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on banks, and Brownlee’s Christchurch sellof
Friday, 10 February 2012, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
The news that the banks in New Zealand have returned to their pre-global recession levels of profit comes as no real surprise. New Zealand banks and their Australian masters have weathered the global financial crisis better than their counterparts ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Maori response to the SOE asset sales
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 9:20 am | Gordon Campbell
The government’s relationship with the Maori Party over the partial selldown of the state’s four energy companies is not yet terminal, but it is looking extremely untidy. Last week’s battle over the government’s attempt to exempt private investors ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the predator society
Friday, 3 February 2012, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
In these last few days before Parliament opens and the cycle of normal political life resumes, significant stories are gaining coverage that they might otherwise struggle to achieve. This morning, they included another example of consumers being ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Mitt Romney’s victory in Florida
Thursday, 2 February 2012, 9:32 am | Gordon Campbell
So Romney now looks a certainty to be the Republican candidate against Barack Obama in November, after yesterday’s win in conservative Florida put paid to the claim that he was not really conservative enough to win the nomination. Sure, he did so ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on today’s protest march in Christchurch
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 9:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Reading meaning into the utterances of Christchurch mayor Bob Parker is always a risky business, but Parker’s comment to the Press the other day that ‘People should be careful what they wish for’ was a fascinating statement in the light ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the arrest of Mourad Dhina
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the arrest of Mourad Dhina, and France’s ongoing problems with the Arab Spring More >>
Gordon Campbell:On Labour’s current rethink of its identity
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 11:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell: On Labour’s current rethink of its identity L abour goes into its two day Taupo retreat today with what has charitably been dubbed a ‘slow and careful journey’ to a new identity under the leadership of David Shearer. Certainly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Kim Dotcom’s bail application
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
The Crown is opposing bail for Megaupload CEO Kit Dotcom on the basis of (a) that he poses a flight risk and (b) he could recommence his operations if released. Neither seem to be very convincing arguments. By its very nature, the extradition battle ... More >>
