The eagerly awaited, much vaunted report on compliance costs is a sham said ACT Industry and Regional Development Spokesman Owen Jennings.

"The Emperor has been caught with not even a thread of usefulness. So much for the Coalition's new found affection for business.

"The wealth producers of the nation weighted down with heavy handed compliance costs can give up waiting. This is too hard for Mr Swain. His anti business colleagues have dug their toes in and he has nothing to offer.

"If the Minister had a shred of decency he would resign. He offered much and has delivered nothing but hot air.

"It will take an ACT in government to deal with such costly, frustrating law as the Resource Management Act," 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>>