Media statement
For immediate release

Tuesday, 29 June 2004

United Future issues advertising costs

United Future leader Peter Dunne said today the Parliamentary wing of the party had spent about 11.5% of its Parliamentary Services 2003/04 funding allocation on newspaper and other advertising, bringing issues of concern to the voting public.

“United Future received slightly over a million dollars this year for servicing the Parliamentary activities of the party and we have spent just over $100,000 on advertising,” he said.

“All our advertising material is checked by Parliamentary Services before it is published to ensure it is within the rules governing the use of this money,” he 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.

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