Friday, 10 December 2004

United Future calls for candidate nominations

The President of United Future, Graeme Reeves, today announced the opening of nominations for the party’s candidates at the next general election.

Nominations will close on 14 February 2005. Electorate candidate selection will be finalised shortly after 1 April 2005.

Mr Reeves said “The list ranking process will begin on 4 April 2005.

“Party members will have the opportunity to take part in the process through regional candidate forums which will be arranged in specific regions around the country during the month of April.

“The party list will be finalised around the middle of next year,” said Mr Reeves.

ENDS

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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>>