Crown Forestry Rental Trust Has Learnt Little

The Crown Forestry Rental Trust appears to have learnt little from the Maori Affairs Select Committee examination into its activities said New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters.

“This huge fund with total capital of $436 million actually only paid claimant beneficiaries less than $5 million in the last financial year.

“The Trust continues to gorge itself on their annual available income having spent on itself just under $11 million, more than twice that paid out to Maori claimants.

“Clearly the Trust does not understand its trust deed and continues to dramatically fail the Maori people and all New Zealanders.

“Obviously the Trust, if it is to continue, needs new leadership at the top,” concluded the Mr Peters.

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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>>