* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 6, DECEMBER 2009 * * * * *
The first December edition of Werewolf published December 6th 2009
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Campbell on the govt’s plans for welfare reform
Gordon Campbell on the government’s plans for welfare reform Click to enlarge At a time of the year when family care and social generosity should […]
Peter Jackson, and the alleged need to keep up with the Australian film industry
Peter Jackson is expected to deliver his ministerial review on the New Zealand Film Commission to Arts Minister Chris Finlayson just before Christmas, and its […]
The Treasury Update, And Calls for Austerity
Any future built on Treasury forecasts is on shaky ground, but lets assume the relative optimism expressed by Treasury in yesterday’s half yearly fiscal update […]
Anne Tolley’s last stand, and those abusive mayoral texts
Education Minister Anne Tolley is painting herself into a dangerous corner by threatening to sack the boards of trustees at any primary schools still refusing […]
Gordon Campbell: Obama's Peace Prize (+ Al Quaeda)
Click for big version Cartoon by Malcolm Evans. For more, see Copenhagen: Cartoon Comment from Malcolm Evans So, Barack Obama was in Oslo yesterday to […]
Gordon Campbell: Risk Free Tax!
On current indications the Buckle Tax review will provide the final draft of their recommendations to the government just before Christmas – to enable it […]
China’s role in our problems with P
Media coverage of the battle against P has tended to focus on the role of Maori gangs in the P trade. Yet most of the […]
Public funding for a Rugby World Cup that few can afford to attend
In any other industry, the taxpayer/ratepayer subsidies being offered to the professional rugby industry for its World Cup event in 2011 would be being slagged […]
Showdown over tax
The Greens’ Russel Norman on why the time for a capital gains tax has now come
Legends of the Lost
Why John Key and the Buckle tax review should continue to ignore Don Brash
Fleeing into Limbo
Stories from the Iraqi diaspora in Lebanon and Syria
From The Hood : Relax, everything’s fine!
We’ll put the world to rights
Travelling Light : Samoa and tourism triste
Altruism and guilt in the sunshine
Climbing the next mountain
New Zealand soccer’s uphill challenge at the World Cup next year
Navigating the Cultural Landscape
Part two of interview with Wellington music legend Disasteradio
Bringing it all back home
A Kiwi helps salvage Britain’s system of justice
Left Coasting : Wars for water
The battle to control California’s water
Classics : Tales from Moominvalley ( 1962) by Tove Jansson
The Moomins, and their gift of tolerance
Star Wearing
Dressing in style on the Galactic outer rim
Talking Sport : King Roger, against the odds
Surprisingly, 2009 was Roger Federer’s year
The Complicatist : Make my week
Getting to grips with TUnEYaRdS
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 5, NOVEMBER 2009 * * * * *
The November edition of Werewolf published November 4th 2009
Margaret Bazley’s attacks on legal aid
The ‘gone by lunchtime’ response to legal aid that the Key government has chosen to adopt in the wake of Margaret Bazley report needs to […]
Phil Goff and the race card
Click to enlarge Playing the race card is one of those claims that is meant to shut down any further debate, and Phil Goff knew […]
Campbell: Using kids as guinea pigs (+ Hone, ETS)
Over the past 30 years, the public has regularly been treated as laboratory rats for this or that ideological hobby horse of government. Crash on […]
Putting the 9/11 Terrorists on Trial
Click to enlarge For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules […]
The selective targeting of Beenie Man
Reportedly, Big Day Out organizers have backed down from their original intention to include the Jamaican dancehall musician Beenie Man in the next BDO festival […]
Obama’s latest surrender to Israel, and drone warfare
President Barack Obama’s single most important foreign policy decision during 2009 has been his recent backdown over requiring Israel to abandon the building of settlements […]
The powers of search and surveillance
Does the Search and Surveillance Bill, as the NZ Herald has recently maintained, really give a web of state agencies ‘sweeping powers to spy, bug […]