Media Statement Friday, 2 April, 2004

Turner: Defending CYFS a bit Rich

Katherine Rich's opposition to United Future's proposal to restructure CYFS is typical rip-it-down-and-build-nothing National, United Future family affairs spokeswoman Judy Turner said today.

"She has not missed a chance to bag CYFS for months now, and yet she's come up with absolutely nothing. Where is National's solution?" Mrs Turner asked.

"While she and Ruth Dyson are calling each other names over the number of unallocated cases, United Future's proposal would actually address the 99% of those cases deemed to be less urgent. "It's all very well to ask written questions about the number of CYFS cases and then feed the answers to the media, but if she took a moment to read what's happening in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, she might realise restructuring CYFS along the lines we suggest is the way forward."

"The question is can a constructive contribution win out over political ambition?"

Ends.

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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>>