Gordon Campbell On Sickness Leave, And On Our Muted Call On Statehood For Palestine
Sickness doesn’t work part-time, which is one of the design flaws in the government plans to amend the Holidays Act. Once the revamped Employment Leave […]
Gordon Campbell On Our Recognition Of Palestine, And Those $70 Million Concert Subsidies
ByThankfully, the end is in sight for the government’s dance of the seven veils over recognising the state of Palestine, and for Labour’s rampant indecision [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Phillips Kids And Why It’s OK To Not Mourn Charlie Kirk
ByNo bread, all circuses. Allegedly, the cupboard is bare when it comes to putting extra money on the table to offer nurses, teachers and junior [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Playing Performative Politics While The Economy (And The Public Health System) Burns
ByAs the old saying goes, “With your eyes, you enter the world. But with your ears, the world enters you.” This may explain why hearing [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Decline Of Winston Peters, And The Attacks On Helen Clark
ByAs 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 [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why Data Centres Are Not Your (Or The Planet’s) Friend
ByIt sounds too good to be true. A giant multinational mothership – Amazon Web Services aka AWS – it supposedly intent on spending $7.5 billion [...] Read More »
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 »