Dunne slates ‘gutless’ Transit NZ

United Future leader and Ohariu-Belmont MP, Peter Dunne, today slammed the board and officials of Transit New Zealand for their gutlessness in refusing to front up for a debate on progress, or the lack of it, on the Transmission Gully project.

“A debate had been arranged by Newstalk ZB in Wellington for today, but early this morning, I was told that no-one from Transit was available to talk. The official ridiculous reason given was that Transit is till engaged in doing work on the project and therefore couldn’t comment,” he said.

“The real reason is that Transit doesn’t want to debate the Gully project with politicians in general - and me in particular.

“Transit’s unwillingness to explain to the people of Wellington why it’s dilly-dallying is resulting in frequent traffic and economic disruption to the region is disgraceful and simply demonstrates they’re not up to the job,” said Mr Dunne.

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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>>