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Gordon Campbell On The Americanising Of NZ’s Public Health System

March 26, 2025 0

One of the odd aspects of the government’s plan to Americanise the public health system – i.e by making healthcare access more reliant on user […]

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Gordon Campbell on the Royal Commission’s fine-tuning of vaccine mandates and lockdowns

November 28, 2024 0

Let’s hope politicians of all stripes can agree to limit their urge to politicise the Royal Commission of Inquiry findings about the Covid response. Since […]

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Gordon Campbell on the language of healthcare, and Mink DeVille

October 16, 2024 0

So far, the Great Multi-lingual Healthcare Crisis has passed by without any damage to life, or to limbs. To date, no-one appears to have mistaken […]

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Gordon Campbell on Iran killing its rappers, and searching for the invisible Dr. Reti

April 29, 2024 0

As hideous as David Seymour can be, it is worth keeping in mind occasionally that there are even worse political figures (and regimes) out there. […]

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Gordon Campbell on the government’s smokefree laws debacle

December 4, 2023 0

The most charitable explanation for National’s behaviour over the smokefree legislation is that they have dutifully fulfilled the wishes of the Big Tobacco lobby and […]

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Gordon Campbell on why rugby may be a health risk

October 17, 2022 0

While it is old news that the men who play top level rugby union are a heavier (and taller) lot than they used to be, […]

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Gordon Campbell on the MIQ memo and France’s elections

April 20, 2022 0

One word has largely been missing from the coverage of the MoH advice about MIQ: Omicron. The relevant memo was written in November. It was […]

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Gordon Campbell on the perils of declaring premature victory

October 18, 2021 0

Sure enough, Saturday’s Vaxathon was a barrel of fun and a throwback not merely to the Telethons of the past. It also revived memories of […]

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Gordon Campbell on the messaging to the vaccine hesitants

September 3, 2021 0

While the recent surge in vaccinations has been welcome, we’re still in the low hanging fruit phase of the journey towards 80-90% rates of protection. […]

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On Budget 2021’s successes and failures

May 21, 2021 0

In some realms of the centre-right, Budget 2021 has been portrayed as a “peak Labour” exercise in which the government has veered sharply leftwards in […]

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Gordon Campbell on the compelling case for meatless meat

May 12, 2021 0

Talk about living in a bubble. As vegetarianism and veganism become normalised – there are more options on restaurant menus! – it can be easy […]

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Gordon Campbell on the challenges we face in securing Covid-19 vaccines

August 31, 2020 0

The early wave of Covid-19 vaccines appear unlikely to deliver a complete shield against getting the infection, as (say) a measles inoculation comes close to […]

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Gordon Campbell on managing Covid-19 better than the Australians, and the Ellis case

June 22, 2020 0

If anything the Covid-19 outbreaks occurring this week in and around Melbourne are a timely reminder of the bullet we dodged by not having a […]

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Gordon Campbell on the hype around the transTasman bubble, and Microsoft

May 7, 2020 0

Arguably, one of the more irresponsible things the government could do right now would be to throw the doors wide open to non-essential travel next […]

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Living by the Code

Cushla McKinney February 1, 2010 0

The mixed blessings of commercial gene testing

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