Gordon Campbell On Nicola Willis’ Perverse Hostility To Working …
WEB1 day ago · It is also healthier. The pandemic kick-started the work- from- home model, and although we like to think and act as if Covid doesn’t exist anymore, the virus hasn’t actually gone away. Last week there were 1,012 reported cases of Covid infection and 13 deaths of people “with Covid” even though the ability to attribute causality for ...
Gordon Campbell On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop …
WEB1 day ago · September 12, 2024 Columns, Gordon Campbell 0. 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 different responses to two strikingly similar problems in two key sectors of the …
Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive
WEB1 day ago · Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive. September 16, 2024 Columns, Gordon Campbell 0. 05 Sept, 2024. 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 a …
Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad …
WEB1 day ago · 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 from October 1st, the expensive cancer drug Keytruda will be made available to eligible people with advanced triple-negative breast cancer, head and neck cancer, colorectal cancer, bladder cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma.
On New Zealand’s Timid Reluctance To Tax The Rich – werewolf
WEB1 day ago · On income alone they would be taxed at 33%. In comparable OECD countries, the headline rates range between 37% and 55%. In addition, while New Zealand (and Belgium) lack a capital gains tax, in those other OECD countries the tax on capital gains ranged between 17% and 42%. For those earning …
Gordon Campbell on trying to pass National on the right
WEBMay 16, 2023 · The belief that Labour can pass National on the right – by spending lavishly on Defence, by boosting Police numbers, by rejecting new taxes of any kind – is not a new idea. Such beliefs have been haunting the Labour Party ever since the early days of the Clark government. Bill Clinton once described this strategy as “triangulation.”.
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s last stand – werewolf
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Gordon Campbell on National’s clueless stance on National Super
WEBDec 15, 2022 · N ational Party leader Christopher Luxon seems to be quite a big fan of the conservative mullet – long on populist posturing at the front, but short on state support at the back. So much so that he intends to raise the eligibility age of national superannuation from 65 to 67. Not that he seems to have any clue – or much interest – in how this change might affect non-rich people.
Gordon Campbell on the fictions about reckless government …
WEBSep 13, 2023 · Y esterday, the Treasury’s pre-election portrait was significantly out of whack with National’s repeated claims of rampant government mis-management of the economy. Instead, it seems that the recession has been averted, inflation is falling, unemployment is rising but still at historically low levels, wages are running ahead of inflation, government debt is still at low levels compared to ...
Gordon Campbell on National’s tax cuts – werewolf
WEBAug 31, 2023 · S ince tax cuts are never a free lunch, collecting the revenue to pay for them was always going to be the credibility test of National’s tax cuts package. For that reason, most people would have assumed Inland Revenue would be included alongside Defence, Corrections, Oranga Tamariki, Te Whatu Ora etc. on the list of government departments and state agencies exempt from having to deliver the ...
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