31 December 2004

Mick Shanahan BA, LLB, OBE,. Pioneering law practitioner, 40 years of legal services at Waitakere. Honorary solicitor of the Auckland Swimming Association and NZ Masters Swimming Association, inducted into the Waitakere Business Hall of Fame. Died, aged 82 years.

New Year’s Honours - Waitakere

New Zealand’s list of New Year Honours is headed by Waitakere MP, the Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt, Speaker of the House, for services to Parliament. Mr Hunt receives The Order of New Zealand (ONZ), and as a Member of the Order, becomes one of only 20 living people who share that honour.

Professor Richard (Dick) Bellamy has long championed conservation efforts at Bethells-Te Henga and O’Neills beaches. He is now a Companion of the Order for his services to science and education.

Gary Vernon Taylor JP of Waitakere, (former ARA Chairman and Chairman of the Environmental Defence Society) has received the Queen’s Service Order for community service.

Elizabeth Ann Malo and Matakite Rangi Malo, both of Waitakere, have each received the Queen’s Service Medal for community service.

Kenneth Victor Catt of Waitakere (Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society) has received the Queen’s Service Medal for public services.

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>>