Just what Christchurch residents think about the work of the City Council is contained in the annual Citizens’ Survey.

The results will be released at a special media conference on Wednesday 20 June at the Civic Offices, Tuam Street, at 10.30am.

The results will include the beginning of work that is looking at social indicators.
More than 100 questions were asked in the survey of Christchurch residents in the past few months.

Questions cover attitudes to central city revitalisation, safety in the city, consultation with the City Council, parking matters, and whether residents think they are getting value for their rates.

- The conference will be in Conference Room D, fourth floor, Civic Offices, Tuam Street, at 10.30am.

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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>>