Media Statement
For immediate release
Thursday, 17 June, 2004

Baldock: UF backs transport moves

United Future welcomes the Government's review of the transport sector, its transport spokesman, Larry Baldock, said today.

The merger of the LTSA and Transfund, along with the transfer of their policy functions to the Ministry of Transport, is sound policy that will ensure that local resources under the LTSA can be better utilised, and information and skills can be used efficiently sector-wide.

"The lack of co-ordination between various transport agencies and the lack of resources available to the Ministry of Transport were a real problem and posed a serious threat to plans for rebuilding New Zealand's transport infrastructure," Mr Baldock said.

"United Future has and will continue to work with the Government to ensure New Zealand's urgent roading needs are met not just now but on an ongoing basis," he said.

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>>