Advertisements attacking the Alliance and Labour in Sunday newspapers are paid for by the National Party, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.

He says National is too cowardly to stand by its own smears.

‘National has nothing positive to say. It has no vision for the future. It has no ideas to clean up the mess it has created. All it can do is smear and run dishonest ads about other parties.

‘National is so shame-faced about its scurrilous ads that it won't even put its own logo on them.

‘If National ran honest ads they would say 'millionaires will pay more tax and ordinary New Zealanders will get better health care, better education, secure superannuation and more jobs.

‘Jim Anderton said the Alliance could run advertisements along the same lines which would say:

Vote National and virtually every public hospital will be sold or closed.

Vote National and your superannuation will be cut, just like it was last year.

Vote National and the roads will be sold to overseas owners.

Vote National and tertiary fees will double.

Vote National and you'll be forced to eat genetically modified food.

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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>>