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Gordon Campbell on the Urewera verdicts, and Nick Smith
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
While the Crown regroups and rethinks about a possible retrial of the Urewera four, the country should taking a long, hard look at how the Police and prosecution have performed. Talk of a retrial is out of the question, surely. This is just the Crown ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the local government reforms
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, centre-right governments dislike Big Government only when it isn’t their brand of government. When it is, many of the democratic brakes get removed, quick smart. At heart, the reforms to local government unveiled yesterday see central government ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the speeches by Key and Shearer
Friday, 16 March 2012, 9:28 am | Gordon Campbell
The much touted smackdown between John Key and David Shearer – one gives a major speech at breakfast, the other at lunchtime! – turned out to be one of those occasions where the rivals spent the entire 15 rounds trying not to put their chin where it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on David Cunliffe’s comments on ports
Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Labour’s Economic Development spokesperson David Cunliffe made a useful contribution to the ports of Auckland dispute this morning. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Tinariwen, and the forgotten war in Mali
Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 11:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Sometimes, civil war in Africa can even bring suffering to the well-heeled patrons of the International Festival of the Arts in Wellington. Tinariwen, the Tuareg rock group from Mali, is due to perform at the Arts Festival tonight – which is big ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Defence’s failed “civilianisation”
Friday, 9 March 2012, 9:38 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the tried and true maxims of management is that business hates uncertainty – because, don’t you know, business can’t be done in a climate where the rules keep on changing, and where CEOs lack a firm foundation on which to base their decisions. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Referendum on asset sales
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
The launching of a Citizens Initiated Referendum on the question of the partial asset sales is a useful shot across the bows of the government’s intentions – although even if the required amount of valid signatures are gathered, it will be mid 2013 ... More >>
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 >>
