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Public Address 30/3/6 - Crazy Talk In A Deep Voice

Thursday, 30 March 2006, 10:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Well I'd be lying if I said that a bunch of skinny white guys doing the haka at the drop of the hat wasn't a good thing. In the grand scheme of things mainstream New Zealanders becoming more Polynesian is a very good outcome... More >>

Public Address 29/03/06 - Big Housekeeping

Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 1:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

After yesterday's revelations, I feel time has come for me to reveal my own past. Yes, people, 23 years ago, I lived in a house that harboured socialists, anarchists, feminists, lesbians, hippies, greenies, punks, junkies, prostitutes, musicians, poets, ... More >>

Public Address 28/03/06 - Anyone More Normal?

Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 11:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

There's plenty on the wires to be going on with as regards the weekend's Act Party conference; and not just the part about attracting no votes at all in the latest One News poll, or even the broadside about muckraking from party founder Roger Douglas... More >>

Public Address 27/3/6 - A Clayton's Bill Of Rights

Monday, 27 March 2006, 12:10 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

The New Zealand Bill of Rights can be a dangerous subject. As constitutional lawyer (and former Prime Minister) Geoffrey Palmer has observed: "Extremely eccentric people seem to gravitate to constitutional issues and lavish their attention upon them." ... More >>

Public Address 24/03/06 - Gossip And Espionage

Friday, 24 March 2006, 2:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Has TV3 felt the pain of Catholic anger after all? And will the Church of Scientology be next? Rick Friesen insisted yesterday that the broadcaster's apology and undertaking not to screen the 'Bloody Mary' episode of South Park again was not was about ratings ... More >>

Public Address 23/03/06 - Crash!

Thursday, 23 March 2006, 12:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

The arrogance of the Labour government was laid bare last night after it was revealed that the Prime Minister shamelessly allowed her official car to be hit from behind and shunted into another car on Auckland's Ponsonby Road... More >>

Public Address 21/03/06 - Gone By Lunchtime

Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 11:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

David Parker's resignation as Attorney General was appropriate - but his subsequent departure from all Cabinet posts would seem to relate more to a desire for comprehensive damage control than a response to the actual offence in question... More >>

Public Address 20/03/06 - Mixed Feelings

Monday, 20 March 2006, 1:37 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Let me define mixed feelings for you. It's sitting on the bank at the Basin Reserve hoping to see Brian Lara regain his magic - but also hoping that he's not so magical as to snatch away a test match that New Zealand will, weather permitting, win to ... More >>

Public Address 17/3/06

Friday, 17 March 2006, 3:47 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

It's a pity the TVNZ reporter who recorded the biffo on Dixon Street between TVNZ and TV3 journos didn't send the footage in to work so that it went in here and came out there... More >>

Public Address 15/03/06 - Strange World

Thursday, 16 March 2006, 11:24 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

The newswires are full of the Israeli raid on the Palestinian prison in Jericho, and its inevitable aftermath. The operation involved the capture of imprisoned PLF figure Ahmed Sa'adat and others thought to be complicit in the assassination of Israeli ... More >>

Public Address 16/3/6 - Kick Her In The Guts, Trev

Thursday, 16 March 2006, 12:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

No New Zealander has made me laugh as much as John Clarke. It might be inaccurate to call him a New Zealander, considering he's been living in Australia almost as long as Germaine Greer and Clive James have been gone from the place, but the man ... More >>

Public Address 14/03/06 - Oh, The Irony

Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 10:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Up to and including the time of the announcement that Fairfax was to acquire the Independent business weekly, there was a perception that the Independent's rival, the National Business Review, was also up for sale, for the right price... More >>

Public Address 13/03/06 - Blur

Monday, 13 March 2006, 1:40 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I've never quite mastered 7am flights. This isn't to say that I actually miss them, or even that I'm not an early riser anyway, just that by the time I'm seated on the plane, I'm usually feeling hungry and stressed and have a thumping headache... More >>

Public Address 09/03/06 - Not Bolted Down

Thursday, 9 March 2006, 12:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I would be surprised if the Commerce Commerce were to, as has been suggested, get in the way of Fairfax's acquisition of Trade Me. Newspaper classifieds and online auctions are not - yet - the same market... More >>

Public Address 07/03/06 - Loads Of It!

Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 11:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Service post: Feel free to vote in the Netguide Web Awards (I guess we'd be in Best Media Site if you felt kindly towards us). And Nic Jones is the runaway leader on the Public Address Virtual Super 14 board - there's as big a gap... More >>

Public Address 06/03/06 - Three Things

Monday, 6 March 2006, 1:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Hey mate. No, not you … him. Yeah, you. Is the most profound and constructive way you can find of expressing your New Zealandness really entering redundant data on your census form? Why not read a New Zealand author? Write something yourself? Go ... More >>

Public Address 03/03/06 - Foul

Friday, 3 March 2006, 2:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

If the DBP affair is about questioning the character of our politicians, it's done its job. The voraciousness, the ruthlessness, the utter indecency with which the character assassination - nay, character lynch-mobbing - campaign has been carried ... More >>

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