Gordon Campbell on cutting labour costs, and Superstorm Sandy's divine message
It is now just over 20 years since the Employment Contracts Act was passed, and 12 years since its main provisions were overturned. Unfortunately, the […]
October 2012
Gordon Campbell on dissing teachers, and the politics of Homeland
For politicians and bureaucrats alike, their readiness to diss the people they rely on to improve education outcomes is a risky leadership tactic. To most […]
Gordon Campbell on Asia’s rival trade deal to the TPPA
One of the interesting things about trade pacts is that while they promote harmony and mutual dependence among the signatories, they’re not regarded quite as […]
Gordon Campbell on the different treatment of tax and welfare cheats
Hidden in amongst the usual holiday weekend filler stories – the road toll, the weather, the disgrace of Lance Armstrong etc – was a fascinating […]
Gordon Campbell on secrecy about charter schools, and Dotcom
So the Act Party and its friends in government have concocted a fresh piece of legislation – aka the Education Amendment Bill 2012 – that […]
Gordon Campbell on the likely Maori Council challenge over water rights
If no one owns the water – as then government insists is the case – then what it is doing selling a significant stake in […]
When Local GPs are a Closed Book
Does the health system know (or care) when people can’t sign up at their local Medical Centre?
When Teaching Becomes Preaching
A fresh campaign to get religious instruction out of state primary schools has reprised a very old debate.
Acting Under Orders
Does John Key know the conditions facing Kiwi workers within US film and TV productions here?
Bureaucratic Blind Alleys
Palestinians escaping Syria find little relief in Lebanon
A Broader Union
Can an iwi-trade union alliance help change the economic equation in favour of workers?
Elric Kane, Master of Horror
An interview with the New Zealand-raised host of Inside Horror
From The Hood : Qui, Jean, Ou Est La Growth?
If Planet Key did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
Punishment Park
Five attractive teenagers, a remote cabin in the woods … What could possibly go wrong?
Café-Nomics in Hard Times
Life behind the café counter, post GFC
The Complicatist : The Spirit of Rockabilly
The sound of white trash contenders, from over 50 years ago…
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 34, September 5, 2012 * * * * *
The September 2012 Edition of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell on the Huawei security scare
On the face of it, it looks very strange that our government should have jumped to comply with American concerns about the Internet business of […]
Gordon Campbell on the Chinese shadow over John Key’s trip to Hollywood
While John Key was in Los Angeles wooing the US studio executives at dinner to bring more film projects to New Zealand, a significant piece […]
Gordon Campbell on the two victories that Mitt Romney needs this week
This week is Mitt Romney’s last chance. And as Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has pointed out so brilliantly, the real debate in Denver today […]
Gordon Campbell on the Kitteridge inquiry into the GCSB
This sounds cosy. The second inquiry to be launched in the past ten days into the GCSB – this time, into its capabilities, performance and […]