Fri, 6 Jul 2001

Apple-growers could avoid unnecessary agony and expensive litigation if ENZA's two commercial shareholders would answer orchardists' questions and sit around the table to resolve the current dilemma, ACT MP Owen Jennings says.

"While some finer points of the argument are complex and may need to be resolved legally, there's no reason why the parties can't meet in a spirit of goodwill and resolve the issues to everyone's advantage," Mr Jennings said.

"The only missing ingredient is the goodwill of the two commercial players, GPG and FR and Partners. I encourage them to make every effort to find a negotiated outcome as soon as possible.

"Orcharding families are under huge stress and need to know as quickly as possible what the outcome of such discussions would be. The only human and decent response for the two commercial players is to begin talking directly to all the affected parties."

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>>