20 May 2004

Borrow For Roading Not Bureaucracy

New Zealand First Transport Spokesperson, Peter Brown, says the Government should be borrowing money for roading , not reintroducing a bond scheme to fund infrastructure.

“There is an old saying ‘keep things simple’ and this should apply to roading in this country,” he said.

“The Government should identify exactly what is required in terms of roading, which is far more than is embraced in the Transit 10 Year Plan.

“We should determine the cost as accurately as possible, which I suspect is far more than Transit have identified. We should borrow money to assist roading in a reasonable timeframe.

“The Government should also be giving the money back that is collected from the petrol motorist, which currently goes into the Crown Account. This should be used to repay interest on money borrowed,” concluded Mr Brown.

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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>>