Today's resignation talk by Don Brash sends a very clear message to the National Party, says Progressive leader, Jim Anderton.

"Don Brash twice stood for election to Parliament in the 1980s in the very safe National-held seat of East Coast Bays. He was rejected both times because his impractical, extremist views turned off too many voters.

"Don Brash's commitments to sell Kiwibank, to take away working parents' Four Weeks Annual Leave holiday entitlements and his opposition to government and industry partnership to promote jobs and growth in the regions, are the type of rigid commitments that will sink National next year," the Progressive leader said.

"National's task after the 2005 election will be to make sure that its next leader is in touch with the values and aspirations of most Kiwis," Jim Anderton 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.

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>>