MEDIA RELEASE
12 August 1999

DONALD WRONG AGAIN

"The Green Party co-leader Rod Donald has fabricated the truth and got it wrong again", Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.

Mr Bradford was commenting about statements from Mr Donald concerning the issue of 60 Defence Force staff attending a Masters of Business seminar in Auckland on 1May 22nd.

"On Morning Report this morning Mr Donald asserted that I knew of the spending issue two weeks ago, on July 28. This is an absolute fabrication," Mr Bradford said.

"While the seminar attendance by Government departments, including WINZ and Defence was referred to in the media, the extent of attendance and total costs were not provided to me until this week.

"I have invited Mr Donald to provide me and the media with evidence of his clairvoyance or to issue a retraction and apologise for his deliberate misrepresentation of the facts," Mr Bradford said.

ENDS

© Scoop Media

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>>