Joint media release by: Auckland City Council, Auckland Regional Council, Rodney District Council, Franklin District Council, Waitakere City Council, Papakura District Council, Manukau City Council and North Shore City Council

10 September 2004

Local authority elections: Your voting documents will be arriving soon

Voting documents for local authority elections will be sent to all enrolled voters next week, between 17 and 22 September.

Eligible voters who are enrolled on the electoral roll will automatically receive voting documents for the local authority elections.

If people do not receive their voting documents by Wednesday 22 September, they should contact their local council electoral office to make a special vote.

Voting closes at noon on 9 October. As it will be a postal vote, it is recommended that completed voting documents are posted back by 7 October to ensure they arrive in time.

Local authority elections are residents’ and ratepayers’ opportunity to choose the city or district’s mayor and councillors as well as local community board members, Auckland Regional councillors and District Health Board and Licensing Trust representatives.

ENDS

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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>>