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Public Address 21/07/04 - King Of The Zeitgeist
Friday, 22 July 2005, 3:21 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
To the unknown graphic artist: congratulations. You are the King of the Zeitgeist. Your clever visual play on the identity of one of those supposedly implicated in the celebrity drug bust coursed through media organisations, private companies and ... More >>
Public Address 20/07/05 - White Collared
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 3:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
And so the bush telegraph sprang into action. Yesterday's white collar drug bust was a matter - quite fairly at this point - for name suppression all round. But if the gossip is correct, this case is going to sorely test the efficacy of name suppression ... More >>
Public Address 19/07/05 - Sound And Light
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 1:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There are worse ways to spend your Saturday night than standing on a deck in Birkenhead watching lightning fork down to the Sky Tower. How kind it was of nature to put on a sound and light show for people who never quite made it out to the pub... More >>
Public Address 18/07/03 - Two Titanics
Monday, 18 July 2005, 4:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Squirrelled away in a cosy shoebox at Victoria University, Political Scientist Jon Johannson specialises in political psychology and leadership. He has just published a book called "Two Titans", a comparative study of Rob Muldoon and David Lange, and ... More >>
Public Address 15/07/05 - Not Just Cricket
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My 10 year-old hears a lot more than he usually lets on. Earlier this week, we were watching yet another TV item on the Zimbabwe cricket tour, and he piped up: "why can't the government just get on with it and intervene?" He said that, from the way ... More >>
Public Address 14/07/05 - Various Informations
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 11:35 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I had a great Wire show on the b yesterday. I interviewed Scott Ryan, the Australian writer-producer-director-star of a cool little mockumentary called The Magician, in which a Melbourne hitman is tracked by his mate with a camera... More >>
Public Address 13/07/5 - Death & Taxes
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 12:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The old cliché of Death and Taxes have been a real theme for me in the past couple of weeks. Tax, in the sense that I'm nutting out a story on this year's big election issue, while simultaneously ignoring the letters from IRD telling me my tax returns ... More >>
Public Address 12/07/05 - Some Behaviour Issues
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There have been some behaviour issues in the local blogosphere since last Friday. In this thread alone on Labour stalwart Jordan Carter's blog, National Party member (and former office-holder) Tim Barclay claimed that the Labour Party "secretly hopes" ... More >>
Public Address: Not Anywhere Else In The World
Monday, 11 July 2005, 9:15 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I think Ken Livingstone's speech was amazing, and I DO believe it's what most Londoners feel about London. That we (I was born here, though I spent all my childhood and youth in NZ and have now lived here longer than anywhere else) actively like being ... More >>
Public Address 08/07/05 - Bloody Murder
Friday, 8 July 2005, 9:57 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I lived in London in years when several terrorist bombings were carried out by the IRA. It was easy enough to be stoic; the odds weren't so bad. The King's Cross station fire in 1987 was actually worse... More >>
Public Address 7/7/05 - Right Ways Familiar Habits
Thursday, 7 July 2005, 12:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of things I've always loved about being a New Zealander is having to maintain 'the reputation'. After all, reputation is what sustains us when we're overseas. So for example you have to ensure that you work your backside off when you're in ... More >>
Public Address 06/07/05 - Gods And Devils
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 1:31 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Having now seen the part of the 60 Minutes interview that got Labour's Muslim MP Ashraf Choudhary into trouble this week, I have to sympathise with him. He was not asked whether homosexuals and adulterers should be stoned to death; he was invited ... More >>
Public Address 05/07/05 - What People Think
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 1:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So what exactly did yesterday's OECD report say about New Zealand's economic position and prospects. Depends who you ask. In the Dominion Post, Vernon Small's story leads thus: "The economy has won a strong report card from the OECD, which says New Zealand ... More >>
Public Address 04/07/05 - Glory Days
Monday, 4 July 2005, 1:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Wellington Stadium is a marvellous place to watch rugby. It is an arena in a sense that other New Zealand grounds are not, in that its shape and symmetry have the effect of concentrating atmosphere... More >>
Public Address 01/07/05 - Go Team
Friday, 1 July 2005, 3:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I belong to a group in this country that is fast becoming culturally ascendant. In the birth of our identity, 'mainstream' was and still should be, the lamest thing you could ever call anyone. You know who I'm talking about: The Grunge Generation... More >>
Public Address 29/06/05 - A Very Big Day For Me
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 3:34 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
This is a very big day for me. My first book, Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas about ourselves is officially on the shelves. Some of the material will be familiar to Public Address readers, from the web feature that started it all... More >>
Public Address 28/06/05 - Clever, Creepy
Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 1:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On Morning Report yesterday, Don Brash declared that gay people are "clearly not mainstream New Zealanders … they're a very small minority." Pressed on whether they might reasonably aspire to be part of his "mainstream" he eventually quoth "I'm sure ... More >>
Public Address 27/06/05 - Hatchings
Monday, 27 June 2005, 11:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So what will you be spending your tax cuts on? What fabulous holiday do you have planned? Or perhaps you'll be remodelling the kitchen. Maybe a new house? Don Brash might like you to invest it, but of course it's your God-given right to spray it ... More >>
Public Address 24/06/05 - It's Not Alright ...
Friday, 24 June 2005, 3:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The reflexive forgiveness of Telecom over this week's big jumbo outage has obscured some salient points. Although both cable breaks were to the north of Wellington, many people in the city were unable to send emails across town... More >>
Public Address 23/06/05 - The Money
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 1:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If John Key wants to demonstrate that economist Peter Harris is wrong when he says National's tax and spending promises don't add up, he would seem better advised to do so by releasing the numbers than by impugning Harris's credibility... More >>
