#gordoncampbell — Public Fediverse posts
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"The fiscal cupboard is bare only in the sense that someone being throttled may experience some difficulty in breathing. It is a deliberately inflicted condition."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/10/gordon-campbell-on-this-weeks-prefu-outpouring-of-wishful-thinking/
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"The fiscal cupboard is bare only in the sense that someone being throttled may experience some difficulty in breathing. It is a deliberately inflicted condition."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/10/gordon-campbell-on-this-weeks-prefu-outpouring-of-wishful-thinking/
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"The fiscal cupboard is bare only in the sense that someone being throttled may experience some difficulty in breathing. It is a deliberately inflicted condition."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/10/gordon-campbell-on-this-weeks-prefu-outpouring-of-wishful-thinking/
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"Alas, it would seem that Labour concluded long ago that it was going to lose this year’s election, and Chris Hipkins has proven to be the ideal man for the job."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
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"Alas, it would seem that Labour concluded long ago that it was going to lose this year’s election, and Chris Hipkins has proven to be the ideal man for the job."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
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"Alas, it would seem that Labour concluded long ago that it was going to lose this year’s election, and Chris Hipkins has proven to be the ideal man for the job."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
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"Even when Labour does come up with good policy – and its proposal to force the supermarket duopoly to separate their wholesale and retail arms is the best way of fostering genuine price competition – it has done so belatedly."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/09/gordon-campbell-on-the-ongoing-relevance-of-jim-anderton/
That's not a bad policy though. A rare case where Labour's policy is better the Greens' on the same issue. But there's a catch ...
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"Even when Labour does come up with good policy – and its proposal to force the supermarket duopoly to separate their wholesale and retail arms is the best way of fostering genuine price competition – it has done so belatedly."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/09/gordon-campbell-on-the-ongoing-relevance-of-jim-anderton/
That's not a bad policy though. A rare case where Labour's policy is better the Greens' on the same issue. But there's a catch ...
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"Even when Labour does come up with good policy – and its proposal to force the supermarket duopoly to separate their wholesale and retail arms is the best way of fostering genuine price competition – it has done so belatedly."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/09/gordon-campbell-on-the-ongoing-relevance-of-jim-anderton/
That's not a bad policy though. A rare case where Labour's policy is better the Greens' on the same issue. But there's a catch ...
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"If only we cared as much about children living in poverty as we seem to care about the time they’re spending on Tiktok."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/09/gordon-campbell-on-the-politics-of-the-r16-social-media-ban/
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"If only we cared as much about children living in poverty as we seem to care about the time they’re spending on Tiktok."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/09/gordon-campbell-on-the-politics-of-the-r16-social-media-ban/
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"If only we cared as much about children living in poverty as we seem to care about the time they’re spending on Tiktok."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/09/gordon-campbell-on-the-politics-of-the-r16-social-media-ban/
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"Taxaphobia also enables a bait and switch. Over the past fortnight, National has largely succeeded in turning the election campaign into a referendum on the alleged 'tax and spend' policies of its opponents."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
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"Taxaphobia also enables a bait and switch. Over the past fortnight, National has largely succeeded in turning the election campaign into a referendum on the alleged 'tax and spend' policies of its opponents."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
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"Taxaphobia also enables a bait and switch. Over the past fortnight, National has largely succeeded in turning the election campaign into a referendum on the alleged 'tax and spend' policies of its opponents."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
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"That said, there would also be some wealthy winners from any tax reforms based on an LVT. The researcher/academic Dr Harpreet Singh has recently argued that some of Opportunity’s donors would see their wealth remain relatively untouched by any directional shift in the tax burden based on an LVT."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Now this is a much stronger argument, although as Campbell admits a few paragraphs back ...
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"That said, there would also be some wealthy winners from any tax reforms based on an LVT. The researcher/academic Dr Harpreet Singh has recently argued that some of Opportunity’s donors would see their wealth remain relatively untouched by any directional shift in the tax burden based on an LVT."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Now this is a much stronger argument, although as Campbell admits a few paragraphs back ...
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"That said, there would also be some wealthy winners from any tax reforms based on an LVT. The researcher/academic Dr Harpreet Singh has recently argued that some of Opportunity’s donors would see their wealth remain relatively untouched by any directional shift in the tax burden based on an LVT."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Now this is a much stronger argument, although as Campbell admits a few paragraphs back ...
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"An LVT levied on urban land owned by landlords and property speculators would surely be passed on to tenants in the form of rent increases."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Apparently this is a "centre-left" arguments against Opportunity policy. Inconveniently for Campbell, this is *exactly* the argument the NatACTs raised against Robertson's policy of removing tax deductibility from mortgage interest;
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"An LVT levied on urban land owned by landlords and property speculators would surely be passed on to tenants in the form of rent increases."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Apparently this is a "centre-left" arguments against Opportunity policy. Inconveniently for Campbell, this is *exactly* the argument the NatACTs raised against Robertson's policy of removing tax deductibility from mortgage interest;
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"An LVT levied on urban land owned by landlords and property speculators would surely be passed on to tenants in the form of rent increases."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Apparently this is a "centre-left" arguments against Opportunity policy. Inconveniently for Campbell, this is *exactly* the argument the NatACTs raised against Robertson's policy of removing tax deductibility from mortgage interest;
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On Tom’s Midnight Garden By Philippa Pearce https://www.allforgardening.com/1918726/on-toms-midnight-garden-by-philippa-pearce/ #art #books #ClassicChildren'sBooks #garden #GordonCampbell #Newsworthy #Scoop #TopScoops #YANovel
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On Tom’s Midnight Garden By Philippa Pearce https://www.allforgardening.com/1918726/on-toms-midnight-garden-by-philippa-pearce/ #art #books #ClassicChildren'sBooks #garden #GordonCampbell #Newsworthy #Scoop #TopScoops #YANovel
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"People have also lost the right to cast a special vote for their local MP in the electorate where they normally reside, should they happen on election day to be out of their home electorate – due to being, say, a student temporarily living in another city, or being on holiday, or travelling on business."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-the-centre-rights-attempt-to-steal-the-election/
WTSF?!
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"People have also lost the right to cast a special vote for their local MP in the electorate where they normally reside, should they happen on election day to be out of their home electorate – due to being, say, a student temporarily living in another city, or being on holiday, or travelling on business."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-the-centre-rights-attempt-to-steal-the-election/
WTSF?!
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"People have also lost the right to cast a special vote for their local MP in the electorate where they normally reside, should they happen on election day to be out of their home electorate – due to being, say, a student temporarily living in another city, or being on holiday, or travelling on business."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-the-centre-rights-attempt-to-steal-the-election/
WTSF?!
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"... unless the citizens assembly concept is endowed with veto powers over the actions of the Executive and/or of elected local councils – and that’s unlikely – it would amount to little more than am exhausting PR exercise, given that there would not be a meaningful devolution of power."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-rejection-of-opportunity/
True. To be more than performative, Parliaments must convert citizens' recommendations into legislation they're obliged to pass.
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Coda:
"... unless the citizens assembly concept is endowed with veto powers over the actions of the Executive and/or of elected local councils – and that’s unlikely – it would amount to little more than am exhausting PR exercise, given that there would not be a meaningful devolution of power."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-rejection-of-opportunity/
True. To be more than performative, Parliaments must convert citizens' recommendations into legislation they're obliged to pass.
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Coda:
"... unless the citizens assembly concept is endowed with veto powers over the actions of the Executive and/or of elected local councils – and that’s unlikely – it would amount to little more than am exhausting PR exercise, given that there would not be a meaningful devolution of power."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-rejection-of-opportunity/
True. To be more than performative, Parliaments must convert citizens' recommendations into legislation they're obliged to pass.
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"Given the vast, oceanic depths of Luxon’s unpopularity, traditional National Party voters who can’t stand Winston Peters or David Seymour have been looking at Opportunity. Perhaps they’re seeing a younger version of themselves, one that’s more representative of the conservative values that National used to promote, before it surrendered to the ideologues of the free market."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-rejection-of-opportunity/
Eh? Campbell is losing his touch.
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"Given the vast, oceanic depths of Luxon’s unpopularity, traditional National Party voters who can’t stand Winston Peters or David Seymour have been looking at Opportunity. Perhaps they’re seeing a younger version of themselves, one that’s more representative of the conservative values that National used to promote, before it surrendered to the ideologues of the free market."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-rejection-of-opportunity/
Eh? Campbell is losing his touch.
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"Given the vast, oceanic depths of Luxon’s unpopularity, traditional National Party voters who can’t stand Winston Peters or David Seymour have been looking at Opportunity. Perhaps they’re seeing a younger version of themselves, one that’s more representative of the conservative values that National used to promote, before it surrendered to the ideologues of the free market."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-rejection-of-opportunity/
Eh? Campbell is losing his touch.
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"On publication in 2008, The Hunger Games was accused of being a rip-off of the Japanese action movie Battle Royale, which also features a televised fight to the death among teenage schoolkids . Well, so did the 1987 Schwarzenegger science fiction movie The Running Man, and the 2001 film Section 7."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins/
Really? The Running Man film was based on a novel published in 1982, 17 years before the novel the Battle Royale film was based on. So ...
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"On publication in 2008, The Hunger Games was accused of being a rip-off of the Japanese action movie Battle Royale, which also features a televised fight to the death among teenage schoolkids . Well, so did the 1987 Schwarzenegger science fiction movie The Running Man, and the 2001 film Section 7."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins/
Really? The Running Man film was based on a novel published in 1982, 17 years before the novel the Battle Royale film was based on. So ...
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"On publication in 2008, The Hunger Games was accused of being a rip-off of the Japanese action movie Battle Royale, which also features a televised fight to the death among teenage schoolkids . Well, so did the 1987 Schwarzenegger science fiction movie The Running Man, and the 2001 film Section 7."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/07/gordon-campbell-on-the-hunger-games-by-suzanne-collins/
Really? The Running Man film was based on a novel published in 1982, 17 years before the novel the Battle Royale film was based on. So ...
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"Hopefully someone – maybe Winston Peters? – will raise this issue with Modi when he visits here. Why is India expecting New Zealand firms to invest in India when for the best part of a decade, India’s own corporates have lacked the confidence to invest in their own country? Why is there such a reluctance?"
#GordonCampbell, May, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/05/gordon-campbell-on-labours-vanishing-act/
Imagine Dogwhistle Peters still took politics that seriously. That Winston is long gone, displaced by a sad self-parody.
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"Hopefully someone – maybe Winston Peters? – will raise this issue with Modi when he visits here. Why is India expecting New Zealand firms to invest in India when for the best part of a decade, India’s own corporates have lacked the confidence to invest in their own country? Why is there such a reluctance?"
#GordonCampbell, May, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/05/gordon-campbell-on-labours-vanishing-act/
Imagine Dogwhistle Peters still took politics that seriously. That Winston is long gone, displaced by a sad self-parody.
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"Hopefully someone – maybe Winston Peters? – will raise this issue with Modi when he visits here. Why is India expecting New Zealand firms to invest in India when for the best part of a decade, India’s own corporates have lacked the confidence to invest in their own country? Why is there such a reluctance?"
#GordonCampbell, May, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/05/gordon-campbell-on-labours-vanishing-act/
Imagine Dogwhistle Peters still took politics that seriously. That Winston is long gone, displaced by a sad self-parody.
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A real grab-bag of titles this month. And yes, I am far behind on my Stephen King and SG Jones reading!
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #ndstevenson #stephenking #holly #stephengrahamjones #amyking #olivialaing #albertomanguel #gordoncampbell #elodiedurand #mattdinniman
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A real grab-bag of titles this month. And yes, I am far behind on my Stephen King and SG Jones reading!
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #ndstevenson #stephenking #holly #stephengrahamjones #amyking #olivialaing #albertomanguel #gordoncampbell #elodiedurand #mattdinniman
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A real grab-bag of titles this month. And yes, I am far behind on my Stephen King and SG Jones reading!
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #ndstevenson #stephenking #holly #stephengrahamjones #amyking #olivialaing #albertomanguel #gordoncampbell #elodiedurand #mattdinniman
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A real grab-bag of titles this month. And yes, I am far behind on my Stephen King and SG Jones reading!
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #ndstevenson #stephenking #holly #stephengrahamjones #amyking #olivialaing #albertomanguel #gordoncampbell #elodiedurand #mattdinniman
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"Time and again though, our Pacific neighbours have told New Zealand that the imminent threat they face is from climate change, not from China. If Willis belonged to a serious government, she would be more inclined to be “sending billions of dollars offshore” to mitigate the effects of climate change, rather than in prepping for war with our main trading partner."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"Time and again though, our Pacific neighbours have told New Zealand that the imminent threat they face is from climate change, not from China. If Willis belonged to a serious government, she would be more inclined to be “sending billions of dollars offshore” to mitigate the effects of climate change, rather than in prepping for war with our main trading partner."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"Time and again though, our Pacific neighbours have told New Zealand that the imminent threat they face is from climate change, not from China. If Willis belonged to a serious government, she would be more inclined to be “sending billions of dollars offshore” to mitigate the effects of climate change, rather than in prepping for war with our main trading partner."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"There have been other benefits for Portugal from de-criminalisation. Thanks largely to officially supported needle swaps, confirmed HIV cases fell from 1,287 in 2001 to just 16 in 2019."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm
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"There have been other benefits for Portugal from de-criminalisation. Thanks largely to officially supported needle swaps, confirmed HIV cases fell from 1,287 in 2001 to just 16 in 2019."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm
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"There have been other benefits for Portugal from de-criminalisation. Thanks largely to officially supported needle swaps, confirmed HIV cases fell from 1,287 in 2001 to just 16 in 2019."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm
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"For gangs, the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975) has been one of the best recruiting tools they’ve ever had. Criminalisation of a raft of illicit drugs not only provides them with a wildly lucrative black market.
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Once users are prosecuted and get sent to jail, gangs offer not only a vital form of self-preservation on the inside, but are (often) the only willing employer waiting on the outside."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm
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"For gangs, the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975) has been one of the best recruiting tools they’ve ever had. Criminalisation of a raft of illicit drugs not only provides them with a wildly lucrative black market.
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Once users are prosecuted and get sent to jail, gangs offer not only a vital form of self-preservation on the inside, but are (often) the only willing employer waiting on the outside."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm
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"For gangs, the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975) has been one of the best recruiting tools they’ve ever had. Criminalisation of a raft of illicit drugs not only provides them with a wildly lucrative black market.
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Once users are prosecuted and get sent to jail, gangs offer not only a vital form of self-preservation on the inside, but are (often) the only willing employer waiting on the outside."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm
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"It probably goes without saying that Luxon’s asset sales plan is a throwback to the 1980s, and to the privatisation excesses of the fourth Labour government that continue to cripple our economy ... Talking of which, we sold Air New Zealand and then had to buy it back when the private sector ran it into the ground. Christopher Luxon used to run the same airline. He knows the history of failure behind what he is proposing."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00026/on-asset-sales-and-targeting-the-homeless.htm
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"It probably goes without saying that Luxon’s asset sales plan is a throwback to the 1980s, and to the privatisation excesses of the fourth Labour government that continue to cripple our economy ... Talking of which, we sold Air New Zealand and then had to buy it back when the private sector ran it into the ground. Christopher Luxon used to run the same airline. He knows the history of failure behind what he is proposing."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00026/on-asset-sales-and-targeting-the-homeless.htm
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"It probably goes without saying that Luxon’s asset sales plan is a throwback to the 1980s, and to the privatisation excesses of the fourth Labour government that continue to cripple our economy ... Talking of which, we sold Air New Zealand and then had to buy it back when the private sector ran it into the ground. Christopher Luxon used to run the same airline. He knows the history of failure behind what he is proposing."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00026/on-asset-sales-and-targeting-the-homeless.htm
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"The marker dominance of the banking cartel and the supermarket duopoly have been left untouched. Far less attention though, has been given to what has been taken away. Routinely, all three coalition parties rail against Big Government. It is part of their political DNA. In reality however, the centralised power of the corporate state has vastly increased under this government."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"The marker dominance of the banking cartel and the supermarket duopoly have been left untouched. Far less attention though, has been given to what has been taken away. Routinely, all three coalition parties rail against Big Government. It is part of their political DNA. In reality however, the centralised power of the corporate state has vastly increased under this government."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"The marker dominance of the banking cartel and the supermarket duopoly have been left untouched. Far less attention though, has been given to what has been taken away. Routinely, all three coalition parties rail against Big Government. It is part of their political DNA. In reality however, the centralised power of the corporate state has vastly increased under this government."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"So far, the oil proceeds have not led to significant diversification of the Timorese economy, or to much in the way of private sector development. Successive Timor-Leste governments have pinned their hopes on the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas field — estimated to have a potential worth of over US$33 billion— as the country’s economic saviour."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"So far, the oil proceeds have not led to significant diversification of the Timorese economy, or to much in the way of private sector development. Successive Timor-Leste governments have pinned their hopes on the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas field — estimated to have a potential worth of over US$33 billion— as the country’s economic saviour."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"So far, the oil proceeds have not led to significant diversification of the Timorese economy, or to much in the way of private sector development. Successive Timor-Leste governments have pinned their hopes on the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas field — estimated to have a potential worth of over US$33 billion— as the country’s economic saviour."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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