BROWN CALLS FOR GREATER CONSULTATION ON AVIATION BILL

“New Zealand First Deputy Leader Peter Brown urges the Minister to put the Civil Aviation Amendment Bill (No.2) on hold to allow meaningful consultation to occur.

“The Bill deals with concerns over air pilots’ medicals and the powers the Director of Civil Aviation Authority has in such regard.

“It is clear that adequate consultation has not been conducted. New Zealand First will not support the Bill as it stands as it fails to fairly and adequately deal with the concerns being raised, said Mr Brown.

“If the Government was to allow genuine consultation I am sure that an amended bill would gain wider parliamentary support”, concluded Mr Brown.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>