Tuesday 5 October 1999

Cullen loses rag with West Coasters

"Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen treated a West Coast delegation to a shocking display of behaviour today, by swearing at them, causing one of the group to cry, and then storming out of the meeting Labour had organised to hear West Coast concerns," says Associate Forestry Minister David Carter.

"A person who cannot control his temper to this extent is certainly not a person who is capable of looking after the purse-strings of New Zealand."

"For the Labour Party to now claim that Michael Cullen left the meeting because he had an urgent plane to catch is just rubbish. Mr Cullen spent the next hour in the debating chamber."

"Only a month ago Michael Cullen was expelled from Parliament for losing his temper."

"This is a man urgently in need of a course in anger management."

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>>