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Gordon Campbell on Iran’s increasing paranoia
Thursday, 2 June 2011, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
A few months ago, Scoop ran several articles about the Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, who was banned last November from making films for 20 years and sentenced to six years in jail. More >>
Gordon Campbell On John Key’s Assault On The Welfare System
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell writes: If John Key is the face of moderation, there’s not much room left on the margins for the extremism of Don Brash. “Moderation” evidently means asset sales, tax breaks for the rich, cuts to government spending, a view that ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Paul Quinn’s rape comments, and health
Friday, 27 May 2011, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that the dust has settled on National MP Paul Quinn’s outrageous comments about women and rape, can we share some of the blame around? Of the four people involved in the discussion only one of them came out entirely with credit. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Budget - And Petrobras
Friday, 20 May 2011, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
While Deficit Phobia provides the rationale for the austerity and privatisation measures contained in this year’s Budget, the government’s stance is a curiously passive one, overall. The largely self-inflicted problems with the revenue base are being ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the lead-up to the Budget
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 10:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Throughout his government’s first term, the role of Prime Minister John Key has been to be the bringer of good news, the guy who carries the ‘times are tough but the future is rosy’ message – while Finance Minister Bill English has been the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on govt’s latest handout to agri-business
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Given the bumper earnings from commodity prices, you might think agriculture would be the last sector in need of a government handout – but no, at yesterday’s post Cabinet press conference, John Key, Nick Smith and David Carter unveiled a series ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the alleged threats to John Key
Friday, 6 May 2011, 9:25 am | Gordon Campbell
The “explanation” by Police Minister Judith Collins for the $800,000 cost blowout in the diplomatic protection squad budget – there have been threats, she says, to the security of the PM – puts a brand new spin on accountability. Countering ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on declaring victory in Afghanistan
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
No doubt, Prime Minister John Key will be waiting on his instructions from Washington and Canberra about the final timetable for the withdrawal of NZ troops from Afghanistan. There are encouraging signs that such a withdrawal may not be long in coming, and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Bin Laden, Petrobras and Jon Stephenson
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 9:44 am | Gordon Campbell
So now that he’s dead, we can bring the troops home now, can’t we? Because the only reason our troops are in Afghanistan is to defeat Al Qaeda and remove the threat it posed to the world, right? That’s been achieved. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Brash coup attempt, and Sean Penn
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 9:28 am | Gordon Campbell
For now, the attempt at a hostile takeover of the Act Party by former National Party leader Don Brash seems to have hit a road block within the Act caucus. Hilary Calvert, John Boscawen and Rodney Hide are apparently against the idea, leaving only Heather ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the oil lobby’s claims about protests
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Nice of petroleum industry lobbyist John Pfahlert to offer to correct “the number of media inaccuracies” that he feels have crept into coverage of the Petrobras protests. Here’s an example of what Pfahlert offers as evidence of media “errors.” More >>
Gordon Campbell: On the government’s lead in the polls
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Competence, of course, is not what is keeping National aloft in the polls. Not when its policy options consist of plans for cutting employment (thus adding to the 160,000 already out of work) and slashing state spending, without having any recipe for actually ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on legal aid, and the Hobbit saga
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
So far, the Key government has reduced the right to a jury trial, extended the powers of search and surveillance by state agencies, restricted the rights against self incrimination, sought the ability to conduct trials in the absence of the accused, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: nation gives plastic waka to Ngati Whatua
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 9:28 am | Gordon Campbell
There’s a something wrong with putting the words ‘giant plastic’ and ‘authentic Maori culture’ in the same sentence, but almost everything about the plastic waka deal signed off by government sounds bizarrely wrong. To start with the obvious – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The new rules for Christchurch’s Recovery
Friday, 1 April 2011, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Last year, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee was endowed with god-like powers to over-ride existing law by the legislation passed in response to the September quake. At the time, there was widespread concern about the unilateral ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Earthquake Welfare and Libya
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
The decision to phase out the government’s support package for Christchurch business seems to have been plucked from the air within ministerial offices in Wellington, and not reached by any process of consultation with the businesses affected. The ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the intervention in Libya
Friday, 25 March 2011, 11:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Was the intervention in Libya justified – and if so, does that mean the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was justified? The conditions laid down by the French for their participation in enforcing a no-fly zone over Libyan air space go some way to answering those questions. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Japan’s nuclear crisis, more welfare rumbli
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
The nuclear crisis in Japan is a textbook example of why government regulation is essential for public safety. According to this New York Times story, the design risks associated with the type of General Electric designed Mark 1 boiling water reactors ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Pike River, shifting RWC games, Libya
Friday, 11 March 2011, 11:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Nearly four months after the Pike River disaster,> the mine’s unpaid contractors are still waiting for the promised government support package to be unveiled. The bills owed to local contractors when the mine exploded amounted to $7 million – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Simon Power resignation
Friday, 4 March 2011, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, the decision by Justice Minister Simon Power to quit politics at the next election has stunned his party, and “flabbergasted” the Prime Minister. The event it most closely resembles is the decision by his friend and former colleague ... More >>
