ARC chair to debate with RAM

This coming Tuesday evening, ARC chair Gwen Bull will publicly discuss key council issues with RAM - Residents Action Movement.

This will be a gripping encounter between the driving force of the ARC rates rise and the political voice of the Rates Revolt.

Also taking part will be three ARC councillors & three senior ARC staff: * Sandra Coney, ARC councillor for Waitakere. * Brian Smith, ARC councillor for Rodney. * Ian Bradley, ARC councillor for North Shore. * Ewen Hutchinson, director of ARC Secretariat. * Craig Shearer, director of ARC Strategic Policy. * Peter Winder, director of ARC Transport.

WHEN 7.30pm on Tuesday, 6th April

WHERE Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn

OPEN TO MEDIA & PUBLIC

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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>>