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Lois Muir honoured

18 August 2004 Netball legend Lois Muir, OBE, receives the honour of Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit from Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright at an investiture ceremony at Government House in Wellington today. Her full citation reads: For services to sports administration and netball. Mrs Muir coached the national netball team for 15 years until 1988 and has become an inspiration for women in all sports. She played netball and basketball for Otago and New Zealand. She has served as an administrator on Netball New Zealand, the Hillary Commission, the Sports Foundation, the Masters Games and the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, into which she was inducted in 1993. She is currently coach of the Speights Otago Rebels netball team.

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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>>