Media Release
17 June 2004

Health Of People In Apple Moth Spray Zones

“The Government neither knows, nor cares about the health effects of people who live in the parts of Auckland which had $90m worth of Apple Moth Spraying heaped upon them,” said Brent Catchpole, New Zealand First spokesman for Biosecurity today.

Mr Catchpole was following up comments he made on the Apple Moth Spraying issue to Parliament on Wednesday.

Mr Catchpole, told the House, “the programme and the allocation of funds to monitor the health effects on the people residing in the spray zones was woeful, inadequate, and even non-existent for most of the spray period”.

He told the House that “money needed to be spent towards the ongoing checks and impact of the health of people in spray zones”.

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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>>