The Green Party is holding its principal election campaign launches from Monday to Wednesday next week.

The national campaign launch will be held at the Auckland Marine Rescue Centre, Solent St (off Tamaki Drive, opposite Parnell Baths) at 2pm on Monday, October 25 (Labour Day). The party plans to have its top 10 list candidates at the launch.

The key Coromandel electorate launch will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday with two-days of activity, which will include four of its top list candidates in the electorate: Coromandel contender Jeanette Fitzsimons MP, Rod Donald MP, organic farmer and Greens agriculture spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street and safe food campaigner and party health spokesperson Sue Kedgley.

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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>>