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Public Address 23/02/05 - Tangerine Craziness
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 9:05 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It looked as if the Dalai Lama had hung his washing out, all over the park. Row after row of saffron fabric flapped gently under the cold blue sky. Glimpsed at a distance through the trees, or marching across the horizon, they looked like monks walking ... More >>
Public Address 22/02/05 - Paris Hilton Too!
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 3:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Why didn't they think to fit a kill-switch to the Brash droid before they sent it in? Now that the droid has gone rogue and is eating the electoral support of its designers, Mad Doctor Prebble has been forced to try and hack the system so that ... More >>
Public Address 21/02/05 - Serious And Trivial
Monday, 21 February 2005, 6:55 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
''Right - now drink p*ss.'' As famous parting comments in journalism go, John Campbell's words as he fished out his glass of champagne from the desk where he had just read his last 3 News bulletin weren't likely to be inscribed in any learned text, but ... More >>
Public Address 17/02/05 - Proper Opposition
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 12:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It has been heartwarming - well, for everyone but the government - to see some quality Opposition politics emerge, most notably in the work of Bill English. English has not blathered meaninglessly about "political correctness" or the "Sisterhood"... More >>
Public Address 16/02/05 - Only Words
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 2:18 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I had been hoping to regale you with tales of a wonderful weekend spent diving and driving. My dive-buddy cousin has finally recovered from a serious bout of pneumonia – which has left both of us grounded – so we were planning to head to Goat Island ... More >>
Public Address 15/02/05 - After Spongebob And More
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 3:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The youth of the nation tumbled into my inbox like a great, anguished wave yesterday. Disturbed, confused and alienated by the brief gay snog in a public health cartoon condom ad, they were also spilling over with gratitude to National's Murray McCully ... More >>
Public Address 14/2/5 - Sleepless Angry Hysterical
Monday, 14 February 2005, 3:50 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It was the older boy's birthday yesterday, and, as was his wish, we took a crew to Goat Island Marine Reserve and spent the day swimming with the fishes. We cut the cake up on the grassy slopes and sang him happy birthday... More >>
Public Address 11/03/05 - The Other Scandal
Friday, 11 February 2005, 12:09 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The only good thing that can be said about the skimming and scamming we now know to have taken place within the UN Oil for Food programme is that the UN has commissioned what appears to be a genuinely independent inquiry... More >>
Public Address 09/02/05 - Just A Location
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was obliged to swot up on the brief visit to these shores of Cherie Blair for my Breakfast slot this morning. I quite quickly realised that New Zealand has been no more than a fleeting location for a story that wasn't really about us at all... More >>
Public Address 8/2/5: Talkback Radio With Pictures
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 12:09 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I confess, I briefly wondered whether I had chanced upon a stray episode of Eating Media Lunch during the first item of the debut airing of Prime TV's Paul Holmes vehicle, Paul Homes. The eponymous host linked live to reporter Solina Theron for a report ... More >>
Public Address 07/02/05 - Great Ideas
Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:36 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Good evening gentlemen, it is a pleasure to return to Owhuku. A year ago, I argued that all New Zealanders should have the same rights, regardless of race, creed, religion or hairstyle. This year, I am here to outline another threat to hard-working New ... More >>
Public Address 04/03/05 - Fog Of Summer
Friday, 4 February 2005, 4:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Readers outside Auckland may have taken the icons of weeping grey cloud which have signified Auckland's week on the MetService site as an indication that the weather has, in fact, been cr*p... More >>
Public Address 03/02/05 - Thrills And Drills
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 1:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Righto: I defy any member of the Mac faithful not to get in a lather about this. It turns out that Mac-hacker Scott Knaster has, for 21 years, been holding on to a Betamax videotape of the event at which Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh... More >>
Public Address 02/02/05 - Olden Days
Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 2:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Does Don Brash actually want women to vote National? Yesterday, he demoted Katherine Rich - when he didn't really need to - to give himself an all-male front bench. He later declared he wasn't going to have a woman there just to satisfy "political correctness"... More >>
Public Address 01/02/05 - New Chapters
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 1:43 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In a story characterised by false endings, the weekend's election in Iraq signals, at the least, a new chapter - for the simple reason that, unlike the invasion, overthrow and occupation; unlike the capture or killing of the old regime's suspects, of Saddam's ... More >>
Public Address 28/01/05 - Ask Ms Manners
Friday, 28 January 2005, 2:04 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A bill in the government's programme of proposed legislation has already won widespread public support despite drawing fire from civil liberties groups. The Urban Protocols (And Safety Standards) Bill is intended to make for better living environments and ... More >>
Public Address 27/01/05 - The Best Minds
Thursday, 27 January 2005, 12:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
TVNZ's Sofia Wenborn was in touch yesterday regarding my comments on Close Up and its poll. She notes that the programmes won its timeslot with a "significantly higher" share than the equivalent Holmes show last year... More >>
Public Address 26/01/05 - Brashing
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 2:08 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
''Gosh,'' said Susan Wood, always keen to interpret a phone-in poll for the masses. ''Perhaps Don Brash has got it right again.'' Or perhaps not. Certainly, 88% of the people who called in on Close Up's poll last night declared that he was ''on the ... More >>
Public Address - Redefining Worthless Opinion
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 12:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Deborah Coddington's Herald on Sunday column continues to redefine the concept of worthless opinion. Last weekend's was particularly woeful. It opens with her usual hyberbolic flourish: More >>
Public Address 24/01/05 - Debrief
Monday, 24 January 2005, 12:24 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was a Big Day Out medical statistic. At about 6pm, I was having a rest in the bar and I remarked to my buddy John Russell that I had developed a little headache in the course of the past five hours, and I hoped it wouldn't get any worse... More >>
