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Gordon Campbell on evidence NZ more socially just than Aust
Monday, 31 October 2011, 10:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Before this election campaign began, there was a lot of angst about our income gap with Australia. That alone makes this Bertelsmann Foundation report on social justice indicators within the OECD worth reading. What it shows is that on six key indicators ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour plans to raise the retirement age
Friday, 28 October 2011, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Labour’s plan to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 by 2033 (with exemptions for some manual workers) and to gradually lift employer Kiwisaver contributions to 7% over the same period is hardly a revolutionary step. As many have already pointed ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand's and Tunisia's elections
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
As the election campaigns of the major parties kick off, our own Electoral Commission should take inspiration from its counterpart in Tunisia, and in particular from this fantastic piece of street theatre aimed at getting people out to vote. It begins ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Prefu, and attempts to vilify France
Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
No surprise, really, that Treasury’s pre-election economic and fiscal update proved to be such a highly political document. The document gave ample reason for feeling extremely nervous about the economic outlook – global economic unease, downturns ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Occupy Movement
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 9:36 am | Gordon Campbell
For a long time, political demonstrations have been highly impersonal affairs. Almost as sterile and almost as impersonal in fact, as going to a mainstream church on Sunday. In both settings, people join a group of strangers who allegedly believe in the same ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Rugby World Cup Victory
Monday, 24 October 2011, 12:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
This close, nail biting victory – without the triumphalism that the All Blacks running riot over their opponents would have entailed – was the best possible result, politically as well. Defeat would have been intolerable, and would have seen the ... More >>
On the death of Gaddafi, and the Rena spill vs deep sea oil
Friday, 21 October 2011, 10:17 am | Gordon Campbell
The death of Muammar Gaddafi – either from wounds inflicted by a NATO air strike, or (more likely) from summary execution on his way to hospital – cancels the option of an international war crimes trial. Doubtless, such a trial would have given the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on who should pay for the Rena clean-up
Monday, 17 October 2011, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
So Transport Minister Stephen Joyce will be meeting with the Mediterranean Shipping Company, that chartered the Rena from Costamare Inc – with a view to getting them to take some responsibility for how the ship was being operated. Good luck with that. More >>
Scoop Audio: French Ambassador on eve of RWC Semi-Final
Friday, 14 October 2011, 5:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell interviewed the French Ambassador Francis Etienne this morning (October 14) about New Zealand’s relationship with France and the importance of rugby. More >>
Gordon Campbell on RNZ’s banning of Bomber Bradbury
Monday, 10 October 2011, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
The lifelong ban that RNZ has now been imposed of Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury for breaching the state broadcaster’s hallowed standards of balance is outrageous, even if privately, Bomber is probably having a Groucho Marx moment – in that, in ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: why the deal on surveillance is a travesty
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
So a cosy deal has been reached between National and Labour on the shape of the interim legislation governing the Police use of covert video surveillance... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest SAS death in Afghanistan
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
Somehow, the job that we’re doing in Afghanistan is so crucial that it is worth our SAS soldiers dying for – but only until 31st March 2012. Come the dawning of April 1st 2012 that sacrifice will somehow become no longer necessary. (At which ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Act Party’s latest policy contortions
Monday, 26 September 2011, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Last week, Act seemed quite willing to flag its principles when it came to endorsing police coercive powers to carry out covert surveillance of the public in their own homes, and then – only 48 hours later – it chose to adopt a policy stance on ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Barack Obama’s latest bailout of Israel
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 9:20 am | Gordon Campbell
So US President Barack Obama is promising to use a Security Council veto to block any attempt by Palestine to gain UN recognition, and he has told the parties to go back to negotiations – even though Obama knows full well how fruitless that route ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Police surveillance bailout
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
It would be easier to respect the law if – repeatedly – the Police and SIS didn’t seem so willing to break it whenever it suits them, while relying on the politicians to come along and clean up the mess they leave behind. More >>
Gordon Campbell on youth voting and the RWC’s C-List celebs
Monday, 19 September 2011, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
The Greens’ Gareth Hughes has highlighted the apparent lack of interest by the young in this year’s election. Only about 72% of eligible 1824 year olds are enrolled and even further up the age ranklings, less than 80% of 2529 year olds ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: workplace deaths & Italy’s threat to Europe
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
It has been a bad week for those who think that business can be safely left to regulate itself. Workplace safety failures have been revealed in evidence to both the Pike River inquiry, and at the inquest into the coolstore fire near Hamilton in 2008. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Nicky Hager’s new book
Friday, 2 September 2011, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Every New Zealander should read this book. It shows us the workings in current Third World hot spots of the pattern of subservience to Canberra and Washington that the current government is busily resurrecting. And it gives chapter and verse on the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the EQC’s funding woes, and peak oil
Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 10:54 am | Gordon Campbell
So, it seems, the Greens were right all along – a special levy to fund the costs involved with the Christchurch earthquake still makes good sense, if only (this time around) to replenish the funds available to the Earthquake Commission. More >>
Gordon Campbell on sports injury, and the WM3 aftermath
Friday, 26 August 2011, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Imagine if there was a party drug known to kill a number of teenagers around the world each year – and which, over time, had been linked to hundreds of thousands of them being likely to develop Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease later in life. ... More >>
