Response From Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment

Manukau City Manager Colin Dale has received notification of a conclusion from the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment regarding the Pacific Events Centre, which is currently under construction on Great South Road beside Manukau City Centre.

The Commissioner’s Office was asked by a member of the public to examine whether the Council’s processes regarding two section 127 applications pertaining to the Centre warranted further investigation.

Mr Dale has been notified that the Commissioner’s Office found the processes robust, met the requirements of the Resource Management Act and did not put at risk maintenance of the quality of the environment. Accordingly, the Office will take no further action.

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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>>