Minister seeks candidates for Conservation Boards

Forty-six vacancies on NZ’s 14 regional conservation boards have been advertised this weekend by the Hon Chris Carter, Minister of Conservation.

“I am keen to receive nominations for people with a strong background and genuine interest in conservation wishing to contribute to conservation management in New Zealand,” Mr Carter said today.

“You won’t get rich being on a conservation board but it is a unique opportunity to participate in local conservation planning and policy development affecting the management of public conservation areas.”

Nominations close on 30 April 2004.

Further information and nomination forms can be obtained from DOC Conservancy offices throughout New Zealand, or on http://www.conservationboards.org.nz

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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>>