Brash takes message to the regions

National Party Leader Don Brash goes on the road tomorrow in the first of a series of regional meetings following his Orewa speech.

The first stop is Rotorua, where he will go on a public walkabout and speak at a meeting to explain National's position to heartland New Zealand.

The road trip follows great public concern about the direction of race relations and the huge public support for National's call for one law for all, an end to race-based funding in education and health, and the Government's hypocrisy over the foreshore and seabed proposals.

It also comes hard on the heels of a TV One - Colmar Brunton public opinion poll released on Saturday night which showed an unprecedented jump in the polls for the National Party, up 17 percentage points since December to 45 points, 7 points ahead of Labour which dropped 7 to 38.

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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>>