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The Black Caps are to play a test match against Afghanistan between September 9-13, in India. So far, the biggest news story about this fixture has been the exclusion of…

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Gordon Campbell On The Mindset Driving The Crisis In Public Health

Gordon Campbell

As far as the rest of the country is concerned,Wellington rarely has a Goldilocks moment. Central government is either too involved in telling people what to do, or not involved…

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Gordon Campbell on why political consensus is SO divisive

Gordon Campbell

Around the halls of Parliament in Wellington, displays of bi-partisan agreement are reserved for wars, sporting triumphs or the deaths of monarchs. That’s why the coalition government’s sudden enthusiasm for…

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Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad Faith

Gordon Campbell

Like the arms race, the funding of new cancer drugs is an endless upwards spiral. First though, let’s have the good news. Yesterday, the Phamac office in Wellington announced that…

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Gordon Campbell On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine On The Treaty

Gordon Campbell

This past week has seen Wellington’s ruling coalition of chaos in fully dysfunctional mode. In the last six days, the ACT Party and New Zealand First have had two strikingly…

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Gordon Campbell on ACT’s plans to strip away the rights of gig economy workers

Gordon Campbell

Common sense tells us that power in the workplace is not evenly divided. That’s one reason why the ability to bargain collectively is such an important safeguard for workers. It…

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Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s timid reluctance to tax the rich

Gordon Campbell

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where…

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on Nicola Willis’ perverse hostility to working from home

Gordon Campbell

Vaccine work mandates, no. Work-in-the-office mandates? Hell yes, Finance Minister Nicola Willis is all for them. Given half the chance, she believes, “some people but not all” will just skive…

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on the government’s bizarre hostility to a capital gains tax

Gordon Campbell

Oyez oyez, CEO Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in New Zealand has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Actually, this is not a daring new…

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Gordon Campbell on the Dunedin hospital fiasco

Gordon Campbell

The word “blow-out” is such a politically loaded term. It carries a strong whiff of extravagance and incompetence. In fact, and with public health budgets in particular, going “over budget”…

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Gordon Campbell on the perils of Israel’s war fever

Gordon Campbell

Israel seems on the brink of achieving the war with Iran that Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying all year to provoke. Until now, Iran had not taken the bait. It…

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