Councillor Jack Henderson
Deputy Chair, Transport
Auckland Regional Council
Private Bag 92012, Auckland

Auckland is the weed capital of New Zealand, and it is time for householders to make war against weed pests. Weeds like tobacco weed, moth plant, and jasmine are too widespread for any agency to control. Native species are struggling and the city bird population remains low.

Now it is up to individual homeowners and tenants to make an effort for their local environment to identify and remove major plant pests from their back yards.

Regional Council officers have produced excellent booklets on identifying plant pests, plus `Friendly Alternatives’ for people who are interested in replacing plant pests with native bird-friendly species. Call Enviroline on 0800 80 60 40, and talk to your neighbours about working together.

Jack Henderson
Auckland Regional Councillor

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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>>