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Media Release
Monday 1st November 1999.

Nice Pamphlets—Where’s the Policy?

New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, has congratulated the National Party on producing the most glossy and expensive, but empty, pamphlets in New Zealand’s political history with its ‘Election Blueprint’.

“It’s a bit like the famous Wendy’s advertisements—“where’s the beef?”. There are no initiatives to help our exporters, no new economic direction, only more of the same sugar-coated policies. There is nothing that will even begin to redress the persistent balance of payments deficit.

“New Zealand First says that there are fundamental problems with the way New Zealand’s economy is currently functioning. It is simply not delivering the social objectives that New Zealanders deserve.

“Mrs Shipley and her Treasurer are miles apart. Mrs Shipley is promising tax cuts, both corporate and personal, while Mr English is promising only corporate tax reductions. Treasury argues that one can’t be done without the other.

“New Zealand First will set in place policies aimed at trebling our exports within twenty years. It is only in this growth environment that we can even begin to tackle unemployment and retake our place in the world,” concluded Mr Peters.

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>>