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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 >>
Gordon Campbell on Epsom, and dodgy aspects of asset sales
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Trouble is, if Key really did want to talk about serious matters, the asset sales programme offers him no relief. This is something of a nightmare, too. Or would be, if anyone looked closely at it. To date, the political focus has been on the wisdom ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the tea tape, billboards, minimum wage
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
First the secret cuppa tea tape, then the billboard defacement plot. Just when the election campaign looked like the mainstream media might have to focus on boring old policy, here come the diversions to the rescue. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Banks/Key taping saga
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Bringing in the heavy legal artillery to suppress the contents of the Banks/Key conversation – the Police and/or a court injunction if necessary – may well halt the publication of the contents until after the election, which is probably the intention. Time is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the campaign’s fixation with the future
Monday, 14 November 2011, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Less than two weeks to go. And what is NOT being talked about in this campaign is at least as important as what appears on the daily round of press releases and photo opportunities. Has anyone for instance, heard any policy yet that treats the growth ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the Nats’ agenda for MMP, and Wgtn Central
Friday, 11 November 2011, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the odder subtexts of the campaign is the serial ‘spontaneity’ with which National Party candidates are endorsing the SM (Supplementary Member) system in the MMP referendum. While the political parties have officially claimed they shouldn’t ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on credibility, and irrigation plans
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Last week, Prime Minister John Key made the economic credibility of Labour into a campaign touchstone yet arguably, the Tooth Fairy has as much credibility as the government’s Future Investment Fund. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the only foreign policy in this campaign
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 10:01 am | Gordon Campbell
Ten years ago come Saturday, the Taliban fled Kabul as the US–led forces of Operation Enduring Freedom reached the gates of the Afghan capital. Things have really gone swimmingly since then, haven’t they? Stability, security and independence are as ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on some possible options for the Greens
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 9:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Is it written in the Green Party’s DNA that they will eventually become the nation’s sole centrist party? Events seem to be conspiring to push the Greens in that direction, with all the hellish choices it will entail. Let's assume for instance, that once ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s asset sales debacle
Monday, 7 November 2011, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The concession by Finance Minister Bill English that National may not get the $5-7 billion it expected from its asset sales programme is a hammer blow to the government’s credibility. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the first week of the campaign
Friday, 4 November 2011, 2:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
Labour needed to make inroads early in this campaign. It had to capture voter attention – hey, maybe this could be a real fight after all – and maintain the momentum. Instead, it frittered away the good beginning by Labour leader Phil Goff (on Monday’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Phil Goff’s debacle in Christchurch
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Any points Phil Goff may have won in the television debate a few days ago went west during last night’s public debate in Christchurch – which, as Vernon Small says, had turned into something close to a rout by night’s end. The centre left can feel ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the welfare reform proposals
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember the so called ‘underclass? Remember when John Key in 2007 went walking down McGehan Close in Owairaka, and took 12 year old Aroha Nathan to Waitangi in his Crown limousine? More >>
Gordon Campbell: OnThe TVNZ Key/Goff Debate
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Given a better debate format last night, Key’s wanton rewritings of history might have got picked up. Yet despite having a grand total of seven journalist/commentators/presenters on hand last night, the contributions by these Less Than Magnificent Seven were almost ... More >>
