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Public Address 20/01/05 - Geeky Stuff And More!
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 11:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Adherents to the Cult of Mac who have visited the fine websites operated by Scoop, The Listener, Street Talk, Rialto and Stuff in the past two or three days may have noticed some odd behaviour... More >>
Public Address 19/1/04 - A Couple For The Road
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 11:02 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Body Shop shaving cream. Body Shop shaving cream. All the way up Rte 91 to Hartford, an hour-long drive in hellishly slushy conditions, I quizzed myself about my partner's beauty products – actually, his only beauty product... More >>
Public Address 18/01/05 - Not Afraid Of The Vote
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 11:29 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A lot has been said in the last week to rekindle the debate on referenda and the Civil Union Bill after a welcome Christmas truce. Colin James published a deliberative piece on the merits of more referenda and the Supreme Court Bill and Civil Union ... More >>
Public Address 17/01/05 - Back From The Rock
Monday, 17 January 2005, 11:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's one of the curiousities of living in Auckland Central that it's possible to take a get-away-from-it-all family holiday in your own electorate. So, secure in the knowledge that Judith Tizard would still be our MP, we headed for Waiheke Island... More >>
Forcible medication and coercive treatment
Monday, 10 January 2005, 12:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Forcible medication and coercive treatment | Jan 09, 2005 12:08 Russell Brown's Hard News United Future MP Marc Alexander appears to have outed his draft law and order policy to the Herald as a way of applying leverage to his United Future party ... More >>
Public Address 30/12/04 - Tsunami
Thursday, 30 December 2004, 11:24 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In approaching a disaster of such unfathomable magnitude as the present one, I guess it's natural to look for your own. There are, as far as I am aware, two published eyewitness accounts of the Asian tsunami by western journalists... More >>
Public Address 24/12/04 - Tired But Happy
Friday, 24 December 2004, 11:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When you've been doing something as long as I've been doing Hard News in its various forms - 13 years, that is - you wonder if you haven't already said everything you want to say about Christmas and the Great New Zealand Summer already... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 23/12/04 - Changes
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 2:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So long, Dick. Hello, Bob. | Dec 23, 2004 11:06 GUEST: James Littlewood in the culture I think the stress of swapping houses is over-rated. I've never lost a spouse, but I've lost a sibling, and you can take it from me that moving house is much, much ... More >>
Public Address 22/12/04 - That Bloke
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 11:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Was that the sound of John Tamihere believing his own hype? In yesterday's Checkpoint interview, Tamihere reacted quite oddly to a fairly benign invitation from Mary Wilson to undertake that he would not in future say one thing and do another... More >>
Public Address 20/12/04 - Spinning And Speedway
Monday, 20 December 2004, 11:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Sunday Star Times quietly retreated yet further from its SIS story yesterday, with a page four story noting that "Peter" - the man who claimed to have bugged iwi computers while masquerading as a maintenance man - had been "challenged to explain ... More >>
Public Address 17/12/04 - Absolute Lashings!
Friday, 17 December 2004, 1:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The burgeoning support for the continuance of Western Springs speedway racing is probably not unconnected with a desire to compensate for the failure of the proposed V8 race in a different part of town to get planning approval... More >>
Public Address 16/12/04 - Argy-Bargy
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 4:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Argy-bargy-whoops-a-daisy | Dec 16, 2004 11:44 Russell Brown's Hard News More >>
Public Address 15/12/04 - Television Comedy
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 12:44 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
"Good evening and haere mai, talofa lava, ni hao, welcome, welcome, welcome to Campbell's Gamble, the show TV3 have given me to stop me going to TVNZ. On tonight's show, Carol Hirschfeld continues her 99-part series about Ahmed Zaoui and it turns out there ... More >>
Public Address 14/12/04 - Advancing Australia
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 10:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
God, I love Australians, but more on that later. For now, still stranger thoughts collide high above the Tasman. The dual sensations of grossly accumulating air miles while remaining static in the aircraft's interior; the chilly, heavily air-conditioned ... More >>
Public Address 13/12/04 - Smells Like ...
Monday, 13 December 2004, 10:58 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
That thing up about body odour being an issue in smokefree pubs: it's for real. In the crowd about three metres back from the stage at the Checks show on Friday night the air was alive with the various aromas of eau de teenage hormone; the sort of ... More >>
Public Address 10/12/04 - Now, Then, Everywhere
Friday, 10 December 2004, 2:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The most extraordinary thing about yesterday's Ahmed Zaoui bail decision is surely the frank disdain expressed by the Supreme Court for the Crown's evidence - or lack thereof - that Zaoui would constitute a danger on the streets of Auckland... More >>
Public Address 09/12/04 - Getting On
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 1:36 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So here we are, finally. The Civil Union Bill will pass its final reading today - by a far more comfortable margin than either last year's prostitution law reform or the homosexual law reform of 1986 - and, assuming something untoward doesn't happen ... More >>
Public Address 08/12/04 - Sharp
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I wouldn't want them to get big-headed, but DogBitingMen does seem to reach places that other blogs don't. Item: Neil Falloon's thinkpiece on Stephen Franks, based on what I am assured is a genuine conversation, comes up with a brilliant, and probably ... More >>
Public Address 07/12/04 - Funny Old Week
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 11:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The prospect of a tunnel under Auckland's Victoria Park - to fix a major motorway choke point without destroying more precious urban green space - is provisionally welcome around these parts. It will cost a small fraction of what the doomed Eastern ... More >>
Public Address 06/12/04 - Journeys Of Mind
Monday, 6 December 2004, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I crane my neck and look down the public gallery. Yes, it really is Brian Tamaki; slick-haired, chewing gum, at the centre of a cohort of burly, self-conscious men. The men on the outside are wearing radio earpieces - ready, presumably, to ward off ... More >>
