Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Gordon Campbell on whether not believing what the politicians aren’t telling you is any way to run an election
The state of the economy - local and international – is now the dominating issue of the campaign, and that poses credibility problems for all involved. ...
Posted in Articles | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The National Party has billed this tax package release as an “economic management plan,” which could land them in truth-in-advertising trouble with the Consumers Institute. The reality is far more modest. What we got yesterday was a ‘me too / and raise you some’ set of tax breaks that will ...
Posted in Articles | 26 Comments »
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Gordon Campbell previews the Obama/McCain debate
At least the ‘Town Hall’ format for today’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama should play to some of McCain’s folksy strengths - which would be the first good news in a fortnight of terrible setbacks for the Arizona ...
Posted in Articles | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Tax cuts are a flexible piece of political ectoplasm. To those who peddle them, as Paul Krugman once noted, there is hardly an economic ill for which tax cuts are not claimed to be the best possible medicine. Your economy is running a healthy surplus? Tax cuts are needed, ...
Posted in Articles | 8 Comments »
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Images Simon Scott
Click for big version
*****
Hard to credit such a thing from the Green Party, but their television ads were the star turn at the Greens campaign launch at Te Papa yesterday. For years to come, those “Vote For Me” spots with the child on the wharf ...
Posted in Articles | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
The debate about the television debates rages on. In the television election debates this year, it seems that Helen Clark and John Key will only be presented in a one-on- one format by TV3 and TVNZ. In effect, the networks ...
Posted in Articles | 4 Comments »
Parliament Headlines
Headlines
Headlines
Headlines
Headlines
