Funding Of Greenies Fisheries Input A Mad Precedent

Monday 21st May 2001

ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide today slammed Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson’s proposal to fund greenie pressure groups out of the Ministry of Fisheries’ budget.

“This is dopey. The greens don’t want to develop a sustainable fishery. They want to shut it down.

“Fisheries management is going to lose this money to political pressure groups. The only reason that Pete Hodgson is going along with this madness is that it’s the price the taxpayer must pay to keep the Greens supporting the government.

“I suppose Pete Hodgson thinks at $50,000 it’s cheap enough. But what’s next? On this logic, the government will soon be funding greenie groups to harangue developers under the Resource Management Act, as if there wasn’t enough damage being done now,” concluded Rodney Hide.

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>>