Rangatahi Day in Parliament

Christchurch City Council chambers are providing the venue for a Rangatahi Leadership Day in Parliament tomorrow for youth to learn and practice leadership skills.

Rangatahi Day in Parliament is a Kaitataki A Rohe Maori Women’s Welfare League initiative hosted by Te Waipounamu Maori Women’s Welfare League.

Rangatahi Leadership Day in Parliament aims to promote and encourage rangatahi in leadership roles within a mock parliament setting.

14 secondary school students from six local high schools have already been organized into two parties, each with its own adult mentors to support them. They have prepared for the day by developing procedures for running tomorrow’s mock parliament. The key topic for the parliamentary debate is race relations.

ENDS

© Scoop Media

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>>