Gordon Campbell On The Decline Of Winston Peters, And The Attacks On Helen Clark
As usual, last weekend’s New Zealand First conference in Palmerston North was very much about the Dear Leader. Alas, and like many other gentlemen of […]
Gordon Campbell On Why The Government Isn’t Fixing The Cost Of Living Crisis
ByThese are the perennial political questions that every incumbent government has to face. Do people feel better/wealthier/more secure now than they were three years ago? [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On ACT’s Fake Defence Of Equality
ByFor people blessed with privilege, their head start becomes so normalised that the advantages of wealth, better education, good housing, better healthcare, white skin and [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On A Troubling Innovation In Healthcare, And Moral Inertia Over Gaza
ByIn China during the Cultural Revolution, “barefoot doctors” would be trained in the basics of healthcare, and then sent off to work in rural areas [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Teachers, Ferries And The Really Wasteful Spending
ByIn the context of yesterday’s teachers strike, Judith Collins claimed that teachers with ten years of experience “can” (not “do”) earn $147,000 a year. In [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Health Narrowly Conceived, And Ukraine’s Latest Impasse
ByImagine an assessment of public health delivery that -for starters – ignored the adequacy of current funding and staffing levels, or the extent of unmet [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Lack Of Spine In New Zealand’s Foreign Policy On Gaza
ByThe word “Gaza” is taking on similar connotations to what the word “ Auschwitz” meant to a previous generation. It signifies a deliberate and systematic [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Labour’s Soft Support In The Polls
ByCurrently, Labour is a receptacle for the widespread public dis-illusionment with the Luxon administration. However, this week’s poll results– which would deliver a hung Parliament [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On A Clueless Government Running A Jobless Economy
ByOne of the whoppers told regularly by Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon is that National inherited a terrible, no good economy from Labour, with rampant [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On New Zealand’s Role In The New ANZUS Remake
ByWant Donald Trump to lower the tariffs on your exports to US markets? Easy. Offer him money. Lots of it. As the New York Times [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Perils Of Trading With Trump
ByLuxon did protest too much on the weekend. Sure, the credulous party faithful were willing to believe him as he continued to lay the blame [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Dubious Rationales For The Waikato Medical School
ByReportedly, a large amount of the cost of creating and running the new $235 million medical school at Waikato University will be financed by philanthropic [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On National’s Bid To Steal Future Elections
ByOther countries are expanding the ability of their citizens to vote. In Britain (from which New Zealand has long taken its constitutional cues) the franchise [...] Read More »