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Gordon Campbell on disenfranchising prisoners
Friday, 10 December 2010, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on disenfranchising prisoners, and Desperate Housewives as a Saudi tool of oppression More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Wongs, and more on Police pursuits
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Sammy Wong may not have told Lockwood Smith’s appointed Parliamentary Services investigator all of the relevant truth relating to one of Wong’s taxpayer subsidized trips to China in 2005. Wong told the investigation that the purpose of the trip ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Police pursuit deaths; Catch 22 SIS changes
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
At his post Cabinet press conference yesterday, Prime Minister John Key confirmed that 18 people had died in police pursuits this year; So the SIS are to get new powers to hack computers and intercept texts. All in order to better protect our national ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Treasury’s hostility to film tax breaks
Friday, 3 December 2010, 11:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Treasury ‘s religious objection to tax breaks and the left wing’s objection to paying subsidies to US multinationals like Warners have converged in their joint hostility to the Large Budget Screen Production Grants Scheme. The tax breaks for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Wikileaks window on US diplomacy
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 11:10 am | Gordon Campbell
By far the most interesting aspect of the Wikileaks bundle released so far though, has been the pattern of behaviour that has been revealed Yes, US diplomacy during the Bush era did fit the stereotype of the blundering global bully dimly aware, if ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Pike River inquiry
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 10:32 am | Gordon Campbell
The Royal Commission of inquiry into Pike River disaster has an open slate to identify the cause of the tragedy at this one mine, and the safety conditions in general for underground mining in New Zealand. In practice, the core questions will be as simple ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Welfare Working Group
Friday, 26 November 2010, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
So…. the overall lack of jobs in the current economy for the 338,000 people of working age on benefits is brushed aside with the non sequitur that some employers have been having problems in the past in finding people to fill some ‘entry level’ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Mana by election results
Monday, 22 November 2010, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Winnie Laban won for Labour by 6155, in a 2008 general election turnout of 82.88%. In proportion, that would translate to a Labour majority of 4199. Instead, Kris Faafoi won the seat by only 1,080 votes on the night. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the travel perks, and Ireland
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
On RNZ this morning, Speaker of the House Lockwood Smith took us back down memory lane to a bygone era when MPs lived in log cabins and traveled by horse and buggy around their vast domains, while members of their extended family licked the stamps ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Key’s illusory free trade gains
Monday, 15 November 2010, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
John Key’s tendency to govern by photo opportunity took a drastic new turn on the weekend. As Radio New Zealand reported this morning, the New Zealand PM emerged from the APEC meeting in Yokohama touting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact as ... More >>
On Key’s hopes for trade progress at APEC (and P)
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Later this week, Prime Minister John Key heads off to the APEC conference in Yokohama, where his hosts seem to be living through some very interesting times. Japan’s feeble recovery is being hurt by the weak US dollar on one hand, and also by China’s ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Hillary Clinton visit
Friday, 5 November 2010, 9:52 am | Gordon Campbell
Only diplomats and Jesuits can probably tell the difference between previous US Secretary of State Colin Powell calling New Zealand a ‘very, very, very good friend’, and the “Wellington Declaration” agreement between the two countries signed yesterday ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Obama’s wake-up call
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Judging by yesterday’s results, the only thing Americans hate more than Big Government is Big Government that doesn’t protect them in times of economic adversity. Four years ago, the unemployment rate was below five per cent. Now, it is just below ten ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: White Paper puts us back in ANZUS
Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
The purpose of a Defence White Paper is to inform the public about how the government plans to arm and use the armed forces to enhance our security and strategic interests – while at the same time, telling our allies and neighbours (friendly or otherwise) ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US midterms
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
On the eve of the inevitable catastrophe for the Democrats in the US midterm elections, Barack Obama is getting all sorts of advice about how to rebuild his party during the two years left to his first (and only?) term. More >>
Gordon Campbell on The Hobbit finale
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 9:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Great. The Hobbit stays here. Everyone’s happy about that – you, me, John Key, Robyn Malcolm…we’re all so very happy, at least until we look at what the government has given away. Sir Peter Jackson is happy because he is spared from living in Ireland ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Latest stage of The Hobbit drama
Friday, 22 October 2010, 9:55 am | Gordon Campbell
So, according to Sir Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens all that Warners are asking for in an uncertain world is certainty. A surety that no sudden outburst of labour unrest will plague The Hobbit in the coming eighteen months. More >>
Gordon Campbell on The Hobbit countdown to D-Day
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
At his post Cabinet press conference last week, Prime Minister John Key was asked (by me) whether the government- convened talks to keep The Hobbit in this country had included the possibility of raising the level of film production subsidies available ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Bogus victory on price increases
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 11:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Out in the real world, it is hard to see why anyone would want to take credit for the current state of the economy. Economic growth is barely registering a pulse, and unemployment is forecast to stay above 5% for the foreseeable. Government policy ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on aged care, local v central Govt
Friday, 15 October 2010, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
The Greens/Labour Party investigation of conditions in the aged care sector in New Zealand paints a hair-raising picture of this country’s quality of care for the elderly. More >>
