Labour Harming Our Economy

ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Immigration Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Labour Government's mis-management of the key immigration portfolio as being responsible for effectively halving New Zealand's net migration numbers.

"Immigration statistics released today have revealed that there has been a drop of 21,000 in net migration numbers from last year," Dr Newman said

"This will have a severe impact on our economy - as already shown with last week's media reports that house prices have stopped growing and are expected to slide - and can be expected to affect the property market to name but one.

"Labour's knee-jerk reaction to political pressure over the number of immigrants settling in New Zealand is inconsistent with sound economic management. By taking a stop-start approach, rather than a considered and consistent one, the Government has made a move that will have huge ramifications on New Zealand's economy," Dr Newman 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>>