21 June 2001

Closing date for submissions to the Smoke-free Amendment Bill

The Health Select Committee decided yesterday not to set a further closing date for submissions to the Smoke-free Environments (Enhanced Protection) Amendment Bill until Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) No. 48 has been referred to the committee. The current closing date for submissions of 2 July 2001 has been rescinded, but in the meantime the committee will continue to accept submissions on the bill.

Chairperson Judy Keall said that the Health Select Committee wanted to make sure that submitters had plenty of time to make submissions to the SOP as well as to the amendment bill that was already before the committee.

“ When the SOP is referred to the Health Committee we will set a final date for submissions.”

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>>