15 September 2004

Chch City Libraries wins inaugural Maori Language Week award

Christchurch City Libraries has won the local body section of the inaugural Maori Language Week awards and was runner-up in the supreme award.

Christchurch City Libraries has a strong commitment to Te Reo Maori. Recent initiatives have included bilingual customer signage (a New Zealand libraries first), outreach programmes and events held during Maori New Year (Matariki) and Maori Language Week.

The awards - organised by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Mâori (the Maori Language Commission), Te Puni Kôkiri and the Human Rights Commission – were created to celebrate and recognise efforts to promote Maori language. They were presented in Wellington last night.

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>>