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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 >>
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 >>
