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Public Address 22/06/05 - Bits And Pieces
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 11:12 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Don Brash is officially a global warming sceptic. He wants proof that climate change is happening and that it is driven by human activity. Perhaps he should do some more reading, and try and think past September... More >>
Public Address 21/06/05 - The Dance Of Secrets
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 11:58 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Poll Dancer returns from holiday-mode to look at the Extra-Special Secret Surprise that Labour is preparing for the National Party conference this weekend. And is Cullen trying to throw this election or what? The tax debate, conspiracy theories and fiscal ... More >>
Public Address 20/06/05 - Mondays
Monday, 20 June 2005, 11:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Another round of political polling has delivered essentially the same message as the last: Labour and National are neck-and-neck, and the momentum is with National. Last night's One News Colmar Brunton poll had National edging ahead 43-41; this morning's ... More >>
Public Address 17/06/05 - Grrr ...
Friday, 17 June 2005, 1:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
And so out come the climate change deniers, with the news that the official numbers on our Kyoto Protocol obligations have been revised and, rather than possibly being due a credit of $500 million when things are settled up in 2012, we are more likely ... More >>
Public Address 15/06/05 - Hot!
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 4:31 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, the government needed Graham Kelly like it needed a hole in the head. The comments by the former left-wing Labour MP for Mana as High Commissioner to Canada have left it yet again on the defensive, and with no really good options either way... More >>
Public Address 14/06/05 – Verdict
Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 11:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Michael Jackson has been found not guilty of a set of child molestation charges, and perhaps that was inevitable, given the huge doubt exposed in his trial as to the character of the accuser's mother in particular... More >>
Public Address 13/06/05 - Characters
Monday, 13 June 2005, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was driving on Saturday to buy Tze Ming lunch, by way of reward for that great post, listening to Winston Peters being interviewed at length on National Radio. I realised that what he almost always does is to characterise, rather than describe, ... More >>
Public Address 10/06/05 - What Are They Smoking?
Friday, 10 June 2005, 2:12 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
For sure, yesterday's poverty data were rushed out from the Social Report not due to land until next month. Along with the leaflet that arrived in our letterbox this week ("The 2005 Budget: securing your future … You're better off with Labour") they ... More >>
Public Address 09/06/05 - Po-Faced Outrage
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 5:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A sitting MP gives an explanation to the House which is at perpendicular variance with accounts of his potentially improper conduct provided to journalists by three members of the public. He seems destined to appear before the privileges committee ... More >>
Public Address 08/06/05 - Banana Battle
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 2:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
'Whither the New Zealand Chinese community?' people were asking. 'How oh how shall we navigate the perilous and two-faced seas of political identity?' But the most important question was ultimately this: 'Where are all the hot Chinese guys at?'... More >>
Public Address 07/06/05 - Lounge Weekend
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 1:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I spent my long weekend watching rugby, reading, making comfort food - roast organic chicken, smoked fish pie and spaghetti bolognaise on successive evenings - and trying not to drink too much wine. I really had planned to at least get out to the Banana ... More >>
Public Address 03/06/05 - Very Much On
Friday, 3 June 2005, 11:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I though this might happen: today's NBR Philips Fox poll has National on 38% support, a point ahead of Labour on 37, on a margin of error of 3.6%. Two polls last week had Labour ahead by seven and four points respectively, but fighting the trend... More >>
Public Address 02/06/05 - Perverse
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 12:13 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A few people have asked for a copy of my recent Mediawatch comment on the Internet peering controversy. Given that the old Mediawatch site is frozen pending a transfer to a new home on the revamped Radio New Zealand site, I thought it would be useful ... More >>
Public Address 01/06/05 - D'oh!
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 2:50 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Michael Cullen apparently surprised a few gallery reporters yesterday morning by laying into TV3, claiming that one of its reporters had posed as a former Bayfield High student on the Internet in search of historical scuttlebutt on David Benson ... More >>
Public Address 31/05/05 - Good Times And Violence
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 1:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Were you expecting me to say something about the New Zealand First immigration policy? Do I really have to? Can't I just crawl inside a bowl of noodles and not come out until all the old ladies who hate me die off?... More >>
Public Address 30/05/05 - Treading Carefully
Monday, 30 May 2005, 5:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When I wrote Friday's blog I didn't expect to be leading Nine to Noon today on the strength of it. But I guess if you say something once, you should be prepared to say it again... More >>
Public Address 27/05/05 – Sick Day, Pay Day
Friday, 27 May 2005, 2:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Was it wise to continue the meningococcal B immunisation programme through the cold and flu season? Anecdotal evidence suggests that adverse responses to the vaccine have been both more significant and more widespread than the Ministry of Health has ... More >>
Public Address 26/05/05 - Hot Shots
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 3:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The health select committee has shot itself in the foot. After sending signals that it would unanimously recommend the removal criminal penalties for the possession of needles used to inject illicit drugs, it has failed to do so, apparently on the ... More >>
Public Address 25/05/05 - Foreign Kool
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 12:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So Winston Peters is promising immigration "hit squads" in the new New Zealand First party policy to be released on Friday. Presumably the phrase "dawn raid" was turned down on the basis that it is now in use by a popular musical entertainment company... More >>
Public Address 24/05/05 - You Had To Be There
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 11:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If the Lions play anything like they did against Argentina this morning, it is going to be a very long tour of New Zealand for them. In scrambling a draw against a largely second-string Pumas side they looked short on pace, cohesion, leadership and commitment... More >>
