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Gordon Campbell on Rabuka’s possible return in Fiji

May 12, 2022 0

Fiji signed onto China’s Belt and Road initiative in 2018, along with a separate agreement on economic co-operation and aid. Yet it took the recent […]

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Gordon Campbell on the youth crime furore

May 9, 2022 0

So far, the excited media response to the spike in “ram-raid” incidents is being countered by evidence that in reality, youth crime is steeply in […]

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Gordon Campbell on abortion rights

May 5, 2022 0

So a Supreme Court stacked with ideologues selected by Donald Trump is about to make an ideological decision to ban the legal right of American […]

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Gordon Campbell on the impotence of onlookers

March 4, 2022 0

Against its will, the world has become conditioned to driving by acts of genocide and peering at them through the window with alarm – before […]

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Gordon Campbell on the protests, Putin’s Pyrrhic victory, plus a playlist

March 2, 2022 0

The protest encampment at Parliament long ago ceased to have any rational purpose beyond perpetuating its own existence. Social media has already condemned the way […]

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Gordon Campbell on freedom, and government mandates

February 16, 2022 0

The Omicron surge to 1160 cases a day will inevitably motivate the public to reduce all occasions of risk wherever possible, whether those venues have […]

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Gordon Campbell on why compromise isn’t an option

February 14, 2022 0

Gosh, as one academic advocated on RNZ this morning, why don’t some politicians just go out and meet the protesters, listen to them, and suggest […]

A convoy of vehicles block an intersection near New Zealand's Parliament in Wellington Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Hundreds of people protesting vaccine and mask mandates drove in convoy to New Zealand's capital on Tuesday and converged outside Parliament as lawmakers reconvened after a summer break. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Gordon Campbell on the Police tactics at Parliament

February 11, 2022 0

Canada is better known for being the home of relentlessly nice people. Yet its trucking protests have become an unlikely model for social disruption, as […]

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Gordon Campbell on last night’s political poll, and Lata Mangeshkar

February 8, 2022 0

Great poll results last night for the centre left. The Newshub/Reid Research poll had Labour up by 1.6 points to 44.3%. Taken together with the […]

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Gordon Campbell on the elusive charms of Christopher Luxon

December 2, 2021 0

Well, the first 36 hours of viewing the Christopher Luxon selfie were always going to be the best, before the repetitions set in. We get […]

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Gordon Campbell on Omicron, and the Bridges/Luxon dilemma

November 29, 2021 0

At this early stage, the Omicron variant seems to be more infectious, and more able to bypass the protection offered by vaccines and by the […]

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Gordon Campbell on National’s less than stellar choices

November 26, 2021 0

Amid all the jostling in the National caucus ranks, spare a thought for Andrew Bayly. Who? Well might you ask. Plucked from obscurity by Judith […]

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Gordon Campbell on the demotion of Simon Bridges

November 25, 2021 0

So Simon Bridges has been bounced from the front bench and stripped of his shadow portfolio responsibilities for the crudely “inappropriate” comments that he allegedly […]

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Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s big parliamentary air kiss to China

May 6, 2021 0

In order to obtain support from the two major parties, Act Party deputy leader Brooke Van Velden twice had to soften the language of her […]

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Gordon Campbell on four-year terms of Parliament, and on how the US courts are dismantling democracy

October 5, 2020 0

Last week, the issue of four-year parliamentary terms surfaced again. Infuriatingly, it is being discussed purely in terms of its convenience for political parties. They’d […]

Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters during his press conference, after it was announced nurses are to go on strike on Thursday, at the Beehive, Wellington. 10 July, 2018. New Zealand Herald Photograph by Mark Mitchell

Gordon Campbell on the “ Where’s Winston?” question

April 30, 2020 0

Deputy PM Winston Peters has kept a low profile over the last month or so, partly because he belongs in the category of people most […]

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Gordon Campbell on reforming Parliament’s toxic culture, and the Christian right

Gordon Campbell May 22, 2019 0

Long ago, politics was defined as a blood sport, and many MPs feel pretty chuffed about their take-no-prisoners approach…

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Gordon Campbell on whether the Pope of Parliament can ever be anything other than a Catholic

Gordon Campbell December 6, 2018 0

’Tis the season of goodwill towards all humankind… except it would seem, towards the Speaker of Parliament.

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