"The news that Carter Holt Harvey will be locating a laminated veneer timber mill near Whangarei is great news for Northland, and Whangarei in particular, said Dr Muriel Newman Whangarei MP for ACT New Zealand.

"This project will give a great boost to the economy. Importantly for Northland this project is a major job creator with 220 construction jobs now and 110 full-time jobs when it is in full production."

"It's great to see our region attracting such a major project.

"It is especially pleasing to know that we will be adding value to wood products, rather than exporting the raw material. Added-value exporting holds great future opportunities for New Zealand," said Muriel Newman.

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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>>