Gordon Campbell On How “fast Track” Steamrolls The Public Good
New Zealand has a habit of creating official posts – the Overseas Investment Office, the Banking Ombudsman, the Grocery Commissioner – as a sop to […]
August 2024
Gordon Campbell On The Plague Of The Seymourites
What a charlatan David Seymour is. Like one of those American Televangelists he so closely resembles, the enemy of bureaucracy is now building his own […]
Gordon Campbell On Why Workers Get Treated As Disposable
National is SO very opposed to ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill that it is willing to waste time and money on supporting its first reading and […]
Gordon Campbell On ACT’s Takeover Of The Government Agenda
The ACT Party won only 8.6% of the vote last year, so how come it seems to be driving about 75% of the government’s agenda? […]
Gordon Campbell On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor
For the past 50 years, the centre-right has been using beneficiaries as a political punching bag. This was (slightly) more forgivable during the Muldoon era, […]
Gordon Campbell On Making Profits From The Ferries Fiasco
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has taken a ton of flak for not having a Plan B in place before she cancelled Kiwirail’s contract for the […]
Gordon Campbell On Making Profits By Trashing Consumer Protections
In any part of the globe, the research is conclusive that the health benefits to babies from breastfeeding exceed those obtainable from infant formula. Moreover, […]
Gordon Campbell on who’s making gold from the Olympics
When it comes to real Olympic gold, it’s hard to go past the $1.25 billion in advertising revenues that’s been sold off the back of […]
Gordon Campbell on the government crusade to degrade public health
If anything finally convinces voters that the Luxon government is a deadly risk to life and limb, it will be the damage it is doing […]