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Gordon Campbell on taking the fall for Anne Tolley
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 9:21 am | Gordon Campbell
Anyone looking for a textbook case of the apparent politicisation of the public service need look no further than the case of former Northland kura principal Debroah Anne Mutu, who became a potential embarrassment for then-Education Minister Anne Tolley, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the guy who REALLY is running North Korea
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Years ago and while still a cub reporter, I had to accompany Muhammad Ali, Bundini Brown and rest of the Ali retinue on a week long tour of speaking engagements and exhibition fights in New Zealand. It was only on the last day of the tour that I ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Cunliffe’s likely role (and France)
Monday, 19 December 2011, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Later this afternoon, we’ll find out just how the new Labour leader David Shearer has managed the difficult task of rewarding his faction while bringing some of his opponents back into the tent. Since David Parker is almost certain to get the new ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Peter Dunne’s casting vote on asset sales
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 9:50 am | Gordon Campbell
As the late Roger Kerr pointed out in 2005 , Peter Dunne went into the election that year advocating the 40% selldown of the government’s stake in most SOEs. So Dunne can hardly be accused of not being a consistent advocate of the partial privatisation ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour leadership change
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 12:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
So it is to be David Shearer as leader, and Grant Robertson as deputy. With David Cunliffe, there were always two concerns. One, whether the wider public would warm to Cunliffe’s combatively intellectual style, and secondly whether his caucus would ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the coalition agreements
Monday, 12 December 2011, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that the three deals done to maintain the National-led coalition are all on the table, its pretty clear how shabby these arrangements really are. United Future for instance has won the promise to “investigate free annual health checks for over ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Peter Jackson and the West Memphis Three
Friday, 9 December 2011, 10:55 am | Gordon Campbell
At first glance, the news earlier this week that Peter Jackson has just completed a documentary on the West Memphis Three case might seem somewhat odd. After all, the three Paradise Lost documentaries made by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky on ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on income inequality
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
The OECD report this week that has found New Zealand to have one of the fastest growing income gaps in the entire OECD will come as no surprise. More >>
Gordon Campbell on charter schools
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
Since its inception. Act has been the party of American Crackpot Theories, so we should probably be thankful that the coalition agreement between Act Party leader John Banks and the Key government didn’t include a constitutional right to bear ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Labour Party leadership race
Monday, 5 December 2011, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Newness is in the air, in every sight and every sound. Both candidates seeking to become Labour’s next leader have been citing the need for change, and claiming they’re the right broom for the job – whether it require a change of direction, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the upcoming Cabinet re-shuffle
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 9:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Prime Minister John Key has indicated that a Cabinet re-shuffle is on the cards. In all likelihood that re-shuffle won’t be moving Bill English, Tim Groser, Murray McCully, Paula Bennett, Chris Finlayson, Nick Smith, Peter Dunne or Tony Ryall from ... More >>
On David Shearer, and the Maori Party
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Of the three Davids contesting the Labour leadership, David Shearer’s main appeal is as the anti-candidate, the guy who aspires to the top job after a career of high achievement outside Parliament. He’s similar in that respect, to you-know-who. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the challenges facing Labour’s new leader
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 9:20 am | Gordon Campbell
While some are urging Labour to take its own good time over deciding on a new leadership team, there is little reason to think that a delay would be productive, and not merely an occasion for more sniping and bloodletting instead. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the election outcomes
Monday, 28 November 2011, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, at least the election has pinpointed the site of Labour’s Last Stand – on Saturday night, south Auckland was almost the only place in the country where Labour grew its party vote. Elsewhere, and in former Labour strongholds like West ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Information Shearing
Friday, 25 November 2011, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
On (a) asset sales, (b) the Epsom tape and (c) the employment (non) effects of raising the minimum wage, the Key government did not release information – including Treasury advice and research paid for by the taxpayer – highly relevant to the main issues ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: financial analysts jump ship on asset sales
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 9:50 am | Gordon Campbell
Barring a miracle, John Key will be getting the green light in 48 hours time to sell off a 49% stake in several of our most valuable state assets. In recent weeks, the issue has come down to a fairly simple question – would we lose money or save money ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on child poverty
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
What Bryan Bruce’s brilliant TV3 documentary demonstrated was that the diseases of poverty are preventable. Moreover Bruce showed them to be the products of a market ideology that has failed most New Zealanders, and is now blighting the lives of hundreds ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on last night’s TV3 debate
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 9:22 am | Gordon Campbell
Phil Goff’s won last night’s TV3 leaders’ debate handily, such that it seemed as if John Key has already decided that Goff is no longer the main thing standing between him and comprehensive victory. The rise of Winston Peters, and the parlous ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Greens’ end game this week
Monday, 21 November 2011, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Into the home stretch, and National is moving the campaign focus from one diversion (the Epsom tape) to the big kahuna of political distractions, Winston Peters. National is plainly worried that some of its own supporters who object to asset sales may ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on politicians and privacy
Friday, 18 November 2011, 9:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Eight days before an election. The Police are poised to search major newsrooms to try and validate the government’s determination to conceal (at least until election day) the evidence that the Great Leader is saying one thing in public and something ... More >>
