Media statement
For immediate release
Tuesday, 2 March 2004

UF calls for extension of school review moratorium

United Future today called for the recently-announced five-year moratorium on school reviews to be extended to all schools in New Zealand, including those currently under review.

United Future leader Peter Dunne and education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy said today the moratorium should be extended “in the interests of fairness and to clear the decks surrounding the whole process as it is clearly causing alarm and anguish among parents and many communities across the country.”

“We note the government is attempting to deal with some of this alarm through a mediation process, but we believe it would be better for all concerned to be treated the same and to allow time for more in-depth community consultation and input,” they 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>>