Labour Leader Helen Clark said today that the best way of ensuring a change of government at the next election was for voters to support parties who are committed to change.

"A vote for Labour is a vote for a change in government. A vote for New Zealand First is a vote for confusion.

"In the last twenty-four hours the leader of New Zealand First has performed another dance of the seven veils.

"New Zealand First is by no means committed to the change in government which a clear majority of New Zealanders have consistently indicated they want.

"Few New Zealanders now relish the prospect of a hamstrung minority government dependent on the votes of a rag-tag mob of supporters. The shambles that has created in this Parliamentary term has not been edifying," Helen Clark 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>>