Media Statement For immediate release Wednesday, 25 February, 2004

Baldock: No pleasing some folk

Green MP Sue Kedgley's objection to the tagging of the Hector's dolphin does not help with attempts to save the endangered species, United Future environment and conservation spokesman Larry Baldock said today.

"This paranoia about tagging them is hard to comprehend," Mr Baldock said in Parliament today.

"Surely any discomfort and minimal risk to the dolphin is preferable to ending up in a can of tuna," he said.

"Perhaps Ms Kedgley simply has trouble keeping up with the developments of modern science and is unaware of ongoing technological improvements that have made the electronic tags far safer than when they were first introduced.

"The Department of Conservation is having a bad day indeed when even its old allies, Forest and Bird and the Greens, oppose its efforts to save an endangered species," he 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>>