WEDNESDAY, 09 MAY 2001

Apple Deregulation a Victory for Common Sense

The Minister of Agriculture is to be commended for taking the overdue step of deregulating the pipfruit industry, ACT Agriculture Spokesman Owen Jennings said today.

“It is a victory for common-sense. ACT has consistently advocated this response and opposed the half-way house deregulation introduced by the National/NZFirst Government in 1997.

“Good ideas usually come to the surface eventually. This was an idea whose time had come.

“While some growers will have reservations and the transition may be difficult, it is in growers’ best interests to have access to competing buyers with different approaches and the pressure to be innovative, low cost and customer responsive,” Owen Jennings said.

ENDS

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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>>