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Public Address 23/03/05 - One Way
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:56 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If you boil down 'race relations' in Australia it pretty much starts to look like a simple divide between two types of policy approach, the "We're all Aussies" and the "Inter-Ethnic Ghetto Chaos Hell of Terrorist Apartheid"... More >>
Public Address 22/03/05 - Front Page Next Day
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:24 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So how was, ermmm, Licencegate for you? It won't be the story of the year, but the investigation on which TV3's Campbell Live based its debut programme was competent and at times even stylish. And at least there was an investigation, albeit one pinched ... More >>
Public Address 21/03/05 - Going Live
Monday, 21 March 2005, 12:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The rumour is that Campbell Live has a killer story lined up for its launch programme on TV3 tonight - which is, of course, exactly the sort of rumour you'd want to be circulating at this juncture... More >>
Public Address 18/03/05 - The Expat Files 1
Friday, 18 March 2005, 3:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I figured I'd get plenty of responses when I invited comment on the Herald's expat story and the issues it raised - but I don't think I expected responses in such length and depth. It's a pleasure to share this, the first tranche of emails, in the order ... More >>
Public Address 18/03/05 - Speaking Freely
Friday, 18 March 2005, 12:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If the current select committee inquiry into the desirability of a "hate speech" law was intended merely to take the public temperature on the issue, then the submissions suggest that the mood is distinctly chilly... More >>
Public Address 17/03/05 - Responses
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 12:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My man Zach has kindly excerpted the two main interviews from yesterday's 95bFM Wire show: the first is with the author of the Weekend Herald's expat stories, Simon Collins, who had some interesting things to say - not least in noting that the proportion ... More >>
Public Address 16/03/05 - Good Lives
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 2:42 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
How apt that the day I quote the Mercer quality of life survey, the 2005 rankings should be published. Auckland and Sydney have maintained last year's scores, but been nudged down from fifth equal place to eighth equal by Munich and Dusseldorf, ... More >>
Public Address 15/03/05 - Leave The Chip Behind
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 1:10 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Weekend Herald's Saturday lead, 'Quarter of NZ's brightest are gone', should not have surprised anyone, although it was salutary to see the numbers. Nearly half a million people born in New Zealand are living in other OECD countries, and 24.2% ... More >>
Public Address 14/03/05 - City Life
Monday, 14 March 2005, 12:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Usually I don't bother responding to those who bait me about my hometown, they are usually parochial yokels whose opinions about Auckland are based on something they saw on the news. Traffic and crime for the most part... http://publicaddress.net/default,1935.sm More >>
Public Address 11/03/05 - A Mighty Wind
Friday, 11 March 2005, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I lived on the West Coast for several years as a kid, and came away with a great regard for the power of nature there. From our house, you could see muscular, miles-high cumulonimbus clouds marching in from the Tasman... More >>
Public Address 10/03/05 - Yet Again
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 4:37 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Winston Peters' attack on Jim Peron yesterday appears to be just one more in a string of incidents in which Peters has made extraordinary allegations against members of the public, under the protection of Parliamentary privilege, with the intention of ... More >>
Public Address 09/03/05 - Sky Jinks
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 12:56 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
With the rest of the TV industry abuzz - and possibly alarmed - at the news that Sky Television is gearing up to launch a free-to-air channel, recent information from Nelson reader Brian Wakely would seem extremely relevant... More >>
Public Address 08/03/05 - Critters
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:53 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I don't think I ever realised how snobbish Melbournians were towards Brisbane until I spent a little time here. All in all it's not too bad a place really. What I had expected from seeing a few locals heading this way on the same flight from Cairns ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS - Exceedingly!
Monday, 7 March 2005, 12:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Exceeding well over? Russell Brown's Hard News If the Herald on Sunday can't find a better lead story than yesterday's, it should … try harder. Under the heading '$50,000 a day: the princely sum you're paying for Charles' NZ visit', the paper declared ... More >>
Public Address Is There...
Friday, 4 March 2005, 12:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Come. Feel the noise - Graham Reid's many things A question: is female org*sm the satisfied whimper at the end, or the 40 minutes of moaning and groaning which my neighbour does loudly at 2am? Or at 6am. Living in a block of townhouses brings with ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS The Historian As Prophet
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 7:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Historian as Prophet | Mar 03, 2005 09:20 Sir Keith Sinclair, Auckland, 1963 The University of Auckland Winter Lecture series of 1963 took the theme of The Future of New Zealand. The seven lectures in the series were subsequently published as The ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS The Gnarlier Questions
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 2:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The gnarlier questions - The select committee recommendations on the Relationships (Statutory References) Bill ought to mollify the concerns of most critics - and if it doesn't, it would be fair to wonder what their motives are in the first place... ... More >>
Russell Brown's Public Address is There...
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 4:21 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Jordan Carter took the trouble to retype the results of the BRC political poll highlighted on page, er, five of the Sunday Star Times. Why did he retype? Because he's on an Xtra connection and can't reach Stuff any more... More >>
Russell Brown's Public Address Is There...
Monday, 28 February 2005, 11:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
PUBLIC ADDRESS: The End of February - Days in the sunshine capital Russell Brown's Hard News Get a few locals on the turps in Nelson and they will tell you that wages there are too low, relative to living costs; local government lacks vision; and the ... More >>
Russell Brown's Public Address is There...
Friday, 25 February 2005, 5:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Big Long Rant - Russell Brown's Hard News Time magazine's "blog of the year", Power Line, called former US president Jimmy Carter a traitor recently - and then issued a "clarification" which essentially made it clear that the authors ... More >>
