Gordon Campbell

Australian leader Julia Gillard is one of those politicians who performs best when her back is against the wall – as she was in January […]

Like one of those inept British generals in World War One, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman is more than willing to declare defeat as victory, ignore […]

As one would expect at the outset of the political year, the recent trio of ‘state of the nation’ addresses have been more about impression […]

At Christmas time, the thoughts of the Remuneration Authority are evidently not with the Child in the manger kind of stuff, but with the somewhat […]

One can only imagine the outcry if a centre left government could manage to meet its goals as economic managers – in this case, to […]

In essence, everyone in New Zealand falls into one of three camps on David Bain, and whether or not he should be paid compensation: (a) […]

Presumably, we are only days away (at most) from learning the contents of the report on the David Bain compensation case prepared by the distinguished […]

New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked […]

Remember how the Key government has justified being so very, very secretive about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) because goodness me, you don’t negotiate these […]

The best way of appreciating Fran O’Sullivan’s attack on Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey in the NZ Herald yesterday is to read it aloud […]

By now, we’ve come to recognize Prime Minister John Key’s typical response to bad news, which is to (a) claim the real figures aren’t in […]

According to one of RNZ’s Morning Report hosts this morning, David Shearer “needs to stamp his authority” on the Labour caucus over the David Cunliffe […]

The conference speech that David Shearer will deliver this weekend is shaping up as one of those Masterchef/New Zealand’s Got Talent events where the nation […]

A week is a long time but, thankfully for governments, the flow of news tends to get broken down into discrete items which can then […]

Was it only four years ago that Barack Obama was first elected? The visibly tired, visibly older man on stage in Chicago yesterday seemed to […]

Gordon Campbell and Alastair Thompson November 7, 2012 Hi there and welcome to Scoop’s election day coverage, in which Al Thompson and I will be […]

While Kate Wilkinson has resigned as Labour Minister, it is clear from the Royal Commission Pike River report that the contributing factors were (a) rooted […]

While the moral epi-centre of Middle Eastern politics continues to be the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, much of the struggle on the ground is still between the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hidden in amongst the usual holiday weekend filler stories – the road toll, the weather, the disgrace of Lance Armstrong etc – was a fascinating […]

So the Act Party and its friends in government have concocted a fresh piece of legislation – aka the Education Amendment Bill 2012 – that […]

If no one owns the water – as then government insists is the case – then what it is doing selling a significant stake in […]