23 June 2004

Hon Matt Robson MP, Progressive Deputy Leader

Hide’s “responsible” makeover vanishes

Mr Rodney Hide, with his usual lack of concern for natural justice and accuracy, has used a leaked internal report from Tainui to make definitive statements about unproven allegations of double dipping regarding contracts with Corrections.

Mr Hide should note that the report commissioned by Tukuroirangi Morgan,
co-chair of Tainui, is under legal challenge.

“It seems that Mr Hide’s supposed make-over as a responsible party leader has lasted only long enough to shout ‘Fire’ about the latest unproven allegation.

“The country had hoped that the new Act leader would change his spots. But it seems he is incapable of acknowledging the good done by projects that are reducing criminal reoffending,” said the Progressive MP.

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>>