On banning 18-19 year olds from bars (& cigarette tax)
Girl Talk. See: Gordon Campbell IV’s Girl Talk, About Copyright In what passes for a public debate here about the flow of young New Zealanders […]
April 2010
On RWC fever, and Obama’s Supreme Court choice
RNZ this morning carried the news that “new research” now shows that the Rugby World Cup would add an estimated $535 million to the nation’s […]
On our unhealthy fixation with Gallipoli
Image: Selwyn Manning: ANZAC Day 2008 Dawns in NZ At the post-Cabinet press conference last Monday, Prime Minister John Key had to field a range […]
On Paula Bennett’s decidedly strange welfare panel
Last week when Social Development Minister Paula Bennett named the working group on welfare reform, she also cited in a footnote two experts that the […]
On getting a fair deal for our oil and mining resources
As the deadline approaches for public submissions on the government’s plans to open up sensitive conservation areas to mining, the likely economic returns to New […]
Gordon Campbell On Welfare Insurance
The new working group on welfare reform to be headed by former Commerce Commission head Paula Rebstock will be looking at schemes of unemployment insurance […]
On New Zealand's Anti-Nuclear Posturing
Click for big version New Zealand’s national identity is very much based on our sense of virtuous purity – and the feeling that we can […]
On the Whanau Ora scheme
At the unveiling of Whanau Ora, the government scrapped a key feature that its expert Task Force had deemed to be ‘pivotal’ – namely, that […]
On the child abuse scandal within the Catholic Church
At the school I attended as a child, any and all queries by parents about the standard of teaching or the content of the syllabus […]
Do the Right Thing
Everywhere else, countries recognise the need to exempt food from GST
Hating Obama, Scorning Rudd
Why have they become so unpopular so quickly ?
Womad under pressure
Can the world music festival survive in its current format and location?
Loss Leader
Is Doug McKay really the leader that Auckland needs?
Classics: Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
Looking out for number one
Left Coasting: Una casa dividida
Searching for common ground among California’s Latino/Chicano/Mexicano voters
Milestone Movies: The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Relationships still feel like this, 40 years on…
From the Hood: Boraxing poetical
Odes for the malodorous
The Complicatist: In praise of Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
I saw you staring into space
Travelling Light: Into the Ruined City
In Agdam, the past is the only thing present
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #5… by Leo Hupert
Newave ! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 9, MARCH 2009 * * * * *
The March Edition of Werewolf.