The Global Co concept is in danger of completely losing credibility, ACT Rural Affairs Spokesman Owen Jennings said today. Farmers are contacting ACT MP’s to tell us they are losing confidence in their own leadership.

"When is the farmers' vote going to finally take place? Dairy farmers are being kept in the dark. "Global Co executives themselves seem to have little idea of what is going on, and I find that astonishing. Let's look at the timeline of Global Co's official announcements so far:

December 21, 2000: The vote will be at the end of March, 2001 March 7, 2001: The vote will be in early May April 9, 2001: The vote will be in mid May 3 May, 2001: Nobody has a clue when the vote will be held

"Today, farmers are still waiting for that vote to take place. Global Co desperately needs to re-establish credibility. Global Co needs to tell the whole story of their research, warts and all. They need to admit that the two-company future was an option worth pursuing.

"Above all, they need to get their act together," Owen Jennings said.

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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>>