'P' Research Highlights Labour Failure

Tuesday 5 Oct 2004

Dr Muriel Newman - Press Releases - Crime & Justice

ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today claimed that the recent police-commissioned Massey University research on methamphetamine use had confirmed Labour's dismal failure to arrest the drug epidemic sweeping the country.

"Labour's failure is demonstrated in a lack of police funding to hunt down meth laboratories, a backlog of clan labs awaiting analysis by ESR, and a court system so clogged that offenders are left free to manufacture more `P' while their cases move through the justice system at a snail's pace.

"The fact is that methamphetamines have become a massive problem for New Zealand society. Teachers, employers and police are left to confront the damage cause by this problem - which is raging out of control because of the sheer incompetence of this soft-on-crime Labour Government," 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>>