$50,000 To Environmental Groups But Recreational Fishing Left Out Again

The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that while the Budget will provide $50,000 to help environmental groups recreational fishermen are dumbfounded that despite years of contributing to fishing issues their pleas for financial contribution are again being ignored.

“The only reason money is going to environmental groups is that this is a strategy put forward by the Greens. This meagre political payback for the Green’s political support is one thing but why has recreational fishing which has contributed to fisheries issues for decades been given no government assistance.

“Recreational fishermen have every right to feel outraged at the money going to the Greens whilst nothing is being granted to the New Zealand Recreational Fishing Council whose members gave two years of their personal time to the Soundings Project,” said Mr Peters.

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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>>