Gordon Campbell On Sacrificing Worker Rights On The Altar Of Commerce
In the interests of efficiency, maybe Brooke van Velden should just outsource her Workplace Relations and Safety Ministry to Business NZ and be done with […]
Gordon Campbell On The Making Of King Donald
After decades of watching the US prop up dictatorships in Central America, South America and the Middle East, there’s a certain irony in seeing authoritarian […]
Gordon Campbell on free speech and anti-Semitism
ByAccording to Workplace Health and Safety Minister Brooke Van Velden, employers are having to endure a “culture of fear” created by Worksafe, which has the [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why The Regulatory Standards Bill Should Be Dumped
ByIf you blinked on a recent Friday afternoon, you might have missed the passing under urgency of the first reading of the Regulatory Standards Bill. [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why Leakers Are Essential To The Public Good
ByFor obvious reasons, people in positions of power tend to treat the leaking of unauthorised information as a very, very bad thing, and – to [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Wealth Taxes And Capital Flight
ByIn the wake of the Greens’ alternative Budget – and the criticism levelled at it – it seems pretty obvious that when it comes to [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Budget 2025
ByUnderwhelming, as promised. All week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis had actively reduced public expectations by saying that her second Budget would not be filled “with [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On NZ’s Silence Over Gaza, And Creeping Health Privatisation
BySince last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed over 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Mock Horror Over Political Profanity
ByHeavens to Betsy. Let me get this right. In her own opinion column, a female journalist (the fearsome Andrea Vance) used a bad word to [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Parental Panic Over Young Kids Online
ByCreating a policy group to investigate a R16 ban on social media provides the government with a perfectly designed soapbox. The findings don’t have to [...] Read More »
On The New Pope, And The Israeli Attack On Peter Davis
ByThe election of any Pope tends to be retro-fitted in ways that make the choice seem inevitable. God’s will, no less. If the new Pope [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Surviving Trump’s Trip To La La Land
ByThe film industry was probably naive to think it would be spared from Donald Trump’s war on globalisation. If you believe Trump, every dollar being [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Aussie Election Aftershocks And Life Lessons
ByWhile Donald Trump is being widely cited as a reason/explanation for Anthony Albanese’s landslide victory on the weekend, that’s like blaming the icing for the [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Aussie Election Finale
ByThe only spectre haunting Anthony Albanese’s government going into Election Day tomorrow will be the way the polls got wrong the likely 2019 election outcome. [...] Read More »