National looks forward to Charities Bill re-write

“It was only a question of when Parliament time was going to be wasted fixing Labour‘s fundamentally flawed Charities Bill,” says National Internal Affairs spokesman Lindsay Tisch, welcoming an apparent back down today.

“We’re delighted that the Government has finally woken up to the injustice that this piece of legislation would have created for our charities.

“It’s better that we get this right the first time, rather than have to come back to fix unexpected consequences in a few months.

“It’s significant that Michael Cullen now agrees with National that this legislation was ‘too heavy-handed’.

“National, which values the work of charities in our communities, will be just as vigilant when the re-written legislation is introduced to Parliament later this year,” says Mr Tisch.

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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>>