Better News For Wellington Than Stadium Gig

The decision by P&O Nedlloyd to re-centre its operations in Wellington is the best news for Wellington business for a long time, ACT New Zealand Associate Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks said today.

As ACT candidate for Wellington Central, I've been worrying about the focus on picking up subsidised events in competition with other cities - particularly Auckland

"In the long run, no one can win when subsidised `bread and circus' events are the way cities compete for vitality.

"That P&O Nedlloyd wants to run a major shipping operation from Wellington again is the kind of turnaround news that businesspeople will be welcoming," Mr Franks 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>>