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Public Address 04/10/05 - Memories And A New Motor

Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 12:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

There's not really any need for me to weigh in at length on the Salient business, what with the mobilisation of the Former Student Media Blog Mafia. You can read Tze Ming (whatever happened to that cultural ban on not cheeking one's elders, eh?), ... More >>

Public Address 03/10/05 - Special Friends

Monday, 3 October 2005, 1:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

In a nutshell: National performed dismally in the special votes but not quite badly enough to shed two seats rather than one. As it was, the Maori Party picked up enough on the party vote to reduce the overhang by one seat, at National's expense... More >>

PUBLIC ADDRESS - Traditional and Pragmatic

Friday, 30 September 2005, 1:45 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Simon Pound conducted an excellent interview on The Wire with National Party historian Barry Gustafson, regarding the moderate pushback within the party: NATFORT and all that. More >>

PUBLIC ADDRESS – Mega Serene Sep 29, 2005

Thursday, 29 September 2005, 2:51 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

fireflyfans.net and browncoats.com are counting down to the release of Serenity (and they have different countdowns, btw) but who cares? I've seen it! Hah! The line was very long at the megascreen in the Village Force cinema complex, hereafter known ... More >>

PUBLIC ADDRESS 28/9/05: Routing Around

Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 2:55 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Quite some years ago, John Gilmore declared that "The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it." In the broader sense, he meant that that any blockage will be bypassed. So come on down, then, the New Zealand Herald GreaseMonkey Script... More >>

PUBLIC ADDRESS 27/09/05: Back the Future?

Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 1:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

NATFORT - Nationals for the Treaty - might just turn out to be a naïve venture from the fringes of its party, or it might be the tip of a broad-based attempt to get National back on track. Either way it's an implicit challenge to the present leadership. ... More >>

Public Address 23/09/05 - Misconstrued & Moving On

Friday, 23 September 2005, 11:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

NBR has finally surrendered one of the least defensible elements of its ropey assault on Dick Hubbard last year, by stating on its front page that his statement in a TV interview was "misconstrued and that he did not intend to represent that his company ... More >>

Public Address 22/09/05 - Not Such A Smart Move

Thursday, 22 September 2005, 12:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

The Herald has gone premium and the people are not happy. Several grumpy readers have contacted me about the New Zealand Herald's introduction yesterday of its new content policies. Opinion pieces are now "premium content" and to read them online ... More >>

Public Address: My Part In Philip Field's Downfall

Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 12:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Yellow Peril returns to Tilegate: Why? 1. Seeing bloggers use 'Taito' as Phillip Field's first name (it's a matai title guys) is driving me crazy. 2. My growing suspicion that I personally declined Sunan Siriwan refugee status to start with..... More >>

Public Address 20/09/05 - Voters And Victors

Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 3:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

A good part of looking like a winner is acting like a winner, and as John Armstrong says today, Helen Clark is wasting no time doing that. Lots of handshakes and hongi, and a very clear intention to project a sense of business being carried on... More >>

Public Address 19/09/05 - Party-Hopping

Monday, 19 September 2005, 2:38 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I've had my share of sand kicked in my face, but I've come throoouuughhhh (and we're gonna go on and on and on...)" The Karaoke Party HQ clustered around the TV as Helen Clark approached the podium, our only non-negotiable policy being to provide a mainstream ... More >>

Public Address 16/09/05 - Anything Could Happen

Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

New Zealand has been a good place these past six years. There are the hard numbers: the lowest unemployment in the OECD and, for part of that time, the highest economic growth. The New Zealand stock market has boomed while others have gone south... More >>

Public Address 15/9 - The Opposite Of Cold Showers

Thursday, 15 September 2005, 10:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

It is not only godless co-habiters like myself and my ladyfriend who have been "married" in the course of National's nationwide letter-drop. I can exclusively reveal that at least four l*sbian couples have found themselves united under one surname, and ... More >>

Public Address 14/09/05 - Hitching Sinners

Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 10:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

This election has brought me into a mild epistemological crisis. What has really shocked me, after seeing into the hivemind of our polity, is that nobody really knows what's going on. It's not that anyone is particularly incompetent, it's just that ... More >>

Public Address 13/09/03 - Numbers And Stuff

Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 12:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Spring showed up yesterday. I took a break and lay on the grass above Pt Chevalier beach, reading Keith Sinclair's autobiography, Halfway Round the Harbour; aptly, the chapter about growing up on "the Point". It's good that small boys can still ... More >>

Public Address 12/09/05 - Gadzooks!

Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I have previously noted an association between the Sunday Star Times and the abuse of statistics. Well, look what the frog has got. The small sample size and Friday-night-only calling aren't the only odd things about the Fairfax poll that had National seven ... More >>

Public Address 09/09/05 - Friday Variety

Friday, 9 September 2005, 11:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

David Herkt's 50th birthday party at Hydrant was worth missing the leaders' debate for. Everyone was nice and the music was a fabulous four-decade sweep of formative tunes. I met Anna Hoffman, and Zero from the Suburban Reptiles... More >>

Public Address 08/09/05 - Interesting Day

Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

On Monday, David Slack noted that the odds-setters at Centrebet were sitting tight and waiting for a big bang in the election campaign. I wonder if yesterday was it. There was, of course, the TV3 poll, which suggested a staggering turnaround in party ... More >>

Hard News 7/9/05: This just in ...

Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 4:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I don't normally post twice in a day, but I've just had two callers to my 95bFM show - one a workmate, the other an estranged family member - emphatically inform me that members of the Exclusive Brethren have been putting up National Party billboards ... More >>

Public Address 07/09/05 - What A Cult!

Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:38 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

So the anti-Green and Labour smear pamphlets turn out to be the handiwork of the Exclusive Brethren? Freaky. There's no evidence that National even knew about the Brethren campaign, but it will not exactly welcome the news that its campaign on ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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