Friday, 17 December 2004

United Future elects deputy leader

United Future leader, Peter Dunne, has announced that the party’s caucus had met earlier today and elected Whakatane-based MP, Judy Turner, unopposed as the party’s deputy leader.

It had always been intended that once the new caucus members had settled into their Parliamentary roles, one of them would be elected deputy.

“Naturally, I’m delighted my fellow MP’s have placed their trust in me to undertake the task of helping ensure United Future goes into the next election in the best possible shape to increase the number of our MP’s in Parliament so that we can continue to place our moderate, commonsense and family-friendly policies before the public,” said Mrs Turner.

Mr Dunne expressed his pleasure at the election of Mrs Turner, saying her compassionate, friendly nature and hard work on behalf of families are a huge asset to United Future.

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>>