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Gordon Campbell on the Christchurch rebuild & SIS politics
Friday, 12 August 2011, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Probably, some will regard the height restriction of seven stories for the rebuild of Christchurch’s central city area as being unnecessarily arbitrary and uniform, and business lobbyists have already told RNZ this morning that the height restriction ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the riots in Britain
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, reaction to the riots in Britain has moved beyond the initial phase of surprise and bewilderment and we’re now firmly into the crackdown phase. More >>
Gordon Campbell: The Right’s Lethal Plan for Global Economy
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 9:49 am | Gordon Campbell
Stock markets jittery, the price of gold heading through the roof... the vandalising of the US economy by the Republican Party is showing every sign of having global repercussions, as last week’s concerns about debt have mutated into this week’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Barack Obama’s debt deal
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
If nothing else, Barack Obama’s tactics during the debt ceiling crisis have clarified how he plans to run for President next year: not as a candidate of the centre left, but as the reasonable, moderate hostage of a deranged Republican Party More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Lieutenant O’Donnell inquiry
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday’s report into the death last year in Afghanistan of Lieutenant Tim O’Donnell has found shortcomings in the training of New Zealand troops (a) with respect to IEDs or Improvised Explosive Devices, (b) with the ability to call in air strikes ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Norway massacre
Monday, 25 July 2011, 9:46 am | Gordon Campbell
As the work of a homegrown right wing dissident, the Norway massacre clearly has more in common with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing carried out by Timothy McVeigh than with the jihadist attacks launched on 9/11. Unfortunately, the lack of any links ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: SAS defence of Afghanistan’s drug barons
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 9:21 am | Gordon Campbell
A typical day at the office for the New Zealand forces in Afghanistan. On one hand, we passed the command of the Bamiyan provincial reconstruction team project over to our Afghan allies, while - on the other – our SAS forces “helped” Afghan ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s tax package (and Rupert Murdoch)
Friday, 15 July 2011, 12:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
For once, the tax package gives Labour a potent set of policies that is consistent with what the party routinely says it stands for, yet so rarely does. Suddenly, Labour appears to be setting the policy debate parameters for this election, a situation ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Don Brash’s race gambit (and Hugh Grant)
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 10:12 am | Gordon Campbell
It must have been a grim moment indeed in the Act Party offices when the Resurrection of Orewa went up on the whiteboard as the last, best chance to revive the party’s fortunes. The prelude hadn’t been too flash, either. Clearly the second coming ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the capital gains tax debate
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The fact that, at last, one of New Zealand’s major parties has embraced the kind of tax on capital gains common in every other developed country on the planet marks a turning point in the country’s economic history. If they were smart, National’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the bailout in Greece
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 11:29 am | Gordon Campbell
Evidently, the recent attempt by EMA boss Alisdair Thompson to justify the gender pay gap has been just the tip of the iceberg. In the Dom-Post yesterday, columnist Richard Long used similarly immutable stereotypes to analyse the Eurozone’s bailout ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: National’s neglect of the armed forces
Friday, 1 July 2011, 12:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
Only a National government could get away with the changes in the New Zealand Defence Force now taking place – ie in the wake of the so called “civilianisation” drive – without a hue and cry about how these outbreaks of rampant ideology and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Te Tai Tokerau result
Monday, 27 June 2011, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
In the wake of his victory in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election, Hone Harawira has run strategic rings around the Maori Party by offering an ostensible olive branch to them to work together for the good of Maori, and having that offer soundly rejected ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the Christchurch deal, and sexist dinosaurs
Friday, 24 June 2011, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, the deal put on the table for Christchurch yesterday by the government has to be only an opening bid, not a final resolution. Those in the red zone areas will have nine months to consider two options – (a) to sell their house and land back ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our alleged Woody Allen syndrome
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Professor Sebastian Edwards has come to New Zealand and told us we have a “Woody Allen” style approach to our economy. http://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/Kiwis-suffer-Woody-Allen-businessdesk-2121768813.html?x=0 Meaning : we Kiwis are all “a bit depressed and neurotic” - when really, everything’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the crisis in Syria
Monday, 20 June 2011, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
In recent weeks the military crackdown by the Assad regime in Syria has become a refugee problem for neighbouring Turkey, and a media nightmare for everyone else. Because the Assad regime has denied access by foreign journalists, the international ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on rebuilding Christchurch - & Murdoch v RWC
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 9:52 am | Gordon Campbell
So the long awaited report on land remediation in Christchurch by the consulting engineers Tonkin and Taylor has been delivered to Prime Minister John Key and Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee – who incredibly, have chosen not to share the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s quakes in Christchurch
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 9:32 am | Gordon Campbell
In the short term, as CERA chief Roger Sutton claimed yesterday, the collapse of some 50 already-damaged buildings in the Christchurch CBD red zone will speed up the rebuilding process. In similarly upbeat vein at yesterday’s post Cabinet press ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the exchange rate, and faux prudery
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Given all the other problems facing the New Zealand economy, the exchange rate is among the least likely to engender much sympathy among the ordinary public. And that’s not simply because the latest spike in the exchange rate was entirely self-inflicted ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on revelations about government borrowing
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
For years, government borrowing has been treated as a sign of irresponsibility, of a country living beyond its means, of the policies of borrow and hope etc etc. In the case of the current government, the level of borrowing – decried only last ... More >>
