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Russell Brown Address: "Information Entrepreneurs"
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:11 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
An address by Public Address blogger, Scoop Columnist and media commentator Russell Brown to a libraries research conference in Wellington at the National Library, delivered Saturday September 3rd at 1.15pm. More >>
Public Address 02 & 05/09/05 - Ugly As
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:39 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Last night's Colmar Brunton poll was about as ugly as could be for Labour, which can only hope that it's as much of an outlier as Pete Hodgson says it is. It certainly makes the position of New Zealand First interesting: if Peters does, as suggested... More >>
Public Address 31/08/05 - Imagine!
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
With a full scalp of hair, NZ First MP Craig McNair, aged 29, stands out from the rest of his colleagues. Salient writer Nicola Kean talks to him about family values, social engineering, and being a young man in a old folks' party... More >>
Public Address 30/08/05 - Five New Posts
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So the Maori Trustee Office enjoys a reprieve, apparently. In yesterday's Herald lead story, which was presumably based on somebody's actual statement, the trustee's office was one of those over which Don Brash's "knife" was said to be hovering... More >>
Hard News 29/08/05: Brash & The Roundtable
Monday, 29 August 2005, 10:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The main news angle on the Brash emails must surely be that they apparently came to light as the result of an internal National Party leak. After all, they really only confirm what was widely assumed at the time Brash took the party leadership: ... More >>
Public Address 26/08/05 - The Odds
Friday, 26 August 2005, 1:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Centrebet odds on a Labour victory shortened a little again this morning with the publication of the Herald and NBR polls. At $1.33, Helen Clark's party isn't exactly unbackable, but I'm not sure that $3.00 is enough to make you open your wallet... More >>
Public Address 25/08/05 - Doctors, Boffins, Asians
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 10:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I got a phone call from the National Party earlier today, and I must say, I'm rather flattered. I guess I must be doing something right, or I'm doing everything *spectacularly* wrong! By convention, the Opposition gets to borrow a boffin from Treasury during ... More >>
Public Address 23/08/05 - Whatever
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 10:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I really wish this election hadn't turned into a bidding war. That it has means Labour is heading in a direction with which I'm not entirely comfortable, and National is making spending assumptions I seriously doubt it can meet... More >>
Public Address 22/08/05 - A Don Never Wears Shorts
Monday, 22 August 2005, 3:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Cast your mind back a few seasons in the Sopranos. Did you see the episode where the New York boss remarks to Tony, "A Don never wears shorts." You may not be surprised to learn that this gem was slipped into the script on the advice of People Who Know... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 17/08/05 - Liberated!
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 10:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On Russell Brown's Hard News Today, we post the full recording of David Lange's 1985 Oxford Union debate speech. It's been quite a long road here. Ever since I published the original transcript, readers have been asking after the recording itself and ... More >>
Public Address 12/08: No Debate
Friday, 12 August 2005, 12:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Small children howled as my car sprayed them with gravel on its headlong, desperate dash to Christchurch Airport. Their mothers held them tight, faces frozen in in rictuses of fear, and burly rugby players blanched and sobbed like silly little girls... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 10/08: Nice and Nasty
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 4:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Alternative Nation*7: Visions of Joanne, huh? Graham Reid's many things; Nice and Nasty Russell Brown's Hard News; Now, creationism, and brainwashing? GUEST David Saul, University of Auckland; A slow, hocking sound Living the invasion with Tze ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 09/08: With Grace and Good Humour
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 11:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The final Paul Holmes show on Prime last night led with Nick Smith MP wittering on about dog kennels. An hour later, Campbell Live devoted an entire show to what might be the last televised interview that David Lange will do... More >>
Public Address 04/08/05 - Scandal Sheet!
Thursday, 4 August 2005, 3:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
While volleys fly back and forth over what Lockwood Smith really said to the American senators about the nuclear ships band, I've been surprised that more hasn't been said about the predicament of the MFAT official involved... More >>
Public Address 03/08/05 - Standing Upright
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 2:48 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Jim Traue, one of the authors of Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas about ourselves joined us at the recent launch for the book in Wellington, and made a lively and forthright contribution to a panel discussion on ideas raised in the book... More >>
Public Address 01/08/05 - A Cornucopia Of Comment
Monday, 1 August 2005, 2:05 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Can anybody tell me some more about Telecom's decision to withdraw all its faster JetStream consumer plans - meaning that anyone who wants a 2Mbit service now faces a price rise from $79 a month to a "business" rate of between $249 and $299? I had ... More >>
Public Address 29/7/5 - Stories Now Safe To Tell
Sunday, 31 July 2005, 5:09 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My old friends Children's Hour are back together and playing a gig at the King's Arms tonight, to celebrate the release of Looking for the Sun, a collection of live recordings retrieved and fixed up by Rob Mayes of Failsafe Records... More >>
Public Address 26-28/07/05 – A Triple Dose!
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
NOTE: This issue of Public Address via Scoop is a compendium of three days worth of material. Enjoy. More >>
Public Address 25/07/05 - Bombs And Big Brothers
Monday, 25 July 2005, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
National's new employment policy is out. And it is … put thousands more people on the public payroll! Judith Collins is promising that the last National government's unsuccessful work-for-the-dole programme would be revived as a matter of urgency ... More >>
Public Address 22/07/05 - Confusion
Friday, 22 July 2005, 3:48 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When I heard it was coming yesterday, my impression was that Trevor Mallard had some documentary evidence to back up his claims that that Don Brash and the National Party were in the pocket of American interests; and were, in fact, tailoring policy in ... More >>
