1 July 2004

No ‘Hokey Tokey’ Politics With New Zealand First

New Zealand First transport spokesperson Peter Brown says New Zealand First is not going to play “hokey tokey” with transport infrastructure funding and will ensure the Tauranga harbour bridge problem is properly and fairly addressed.

“The Tauranga harbour bridge should be deemed a state highway and as such be funded from the National Land Transport Fund. That’s our view, that’s what the people of Tauranga want and that is what they have paid for already, several times over.

“When we are back after the next election, that is exactly what will happen – no ifs, no buts, no maybes, no backroom deals.

“Tauranga needs a second bridge. It serves the largest export port in the country and Tauranga people are entitled to certainty - not tolls.

“Under New Zealand First, they will get their bridge, paid for from the Transport fund. Hang on, help is on the way,” concluded Peter Brown.

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>>