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Public Address 02/11/04 - It's A Riot
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 11:54 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Last night's Close-Up at 7 special on 1984's Aotea Square riot might well have been a wee bit of a promo for Dave Dobbyn's forthcoming national tour with Brooke Fraser, and its previously unseen footage didn't amount to much... More >>
Public Address 01/12/04 - All The Fun ...
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 10:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The fallout from yesterday's ''civil unions on a knife-edge'' story in the Herald has been interesting. At least two of the apparent flip-floppers - Don Brash and Tariana Turia - went on the radio to confirm their changes of mind, but reports of ... More >>
Public Address 30/11/04 - Real Conscience
Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 12:16 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
With various lobby groups pouring on the last-minute moral panic, it appears that the vote on Thursday's second reading of the Civil Union Bill might be a little tighter than anticipated. Surprisingly, this morning's Herald story lists Don Brash and Pansy ... More >>
Public Address 29/11/04 - On Fire
Monday, 29 November 2004, 12:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Blowing up the PA system is the stuff of ordinary legend in garage rock. It takes a special talent to set the PA on fire by playing through it. And that, friends, is what the D4 managed at the King's Arms on Friday night... More >>
Public Address 26/11/04 - Four-Piece Pack
Friday, 26 November 2004, 12:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What odds then, on the government actually presenting any evidence now that Ahmed Zaoui has been granted his bail hearing by the Supreme Court? It would be ironic if a man's two years of internment ended because no case was made against bail... More >>
Public Address 25/11/04 - Not Just Cricket
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 2:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
And so the fencing begins. Helen Clark announces an inquiry into claims that the SIS illegally spied on Maori groups and individuals - and then implies that the Sunday Star Times should surrender its sources to the inquiry... More >>
Public Address 24/11/04 - Man Of Mystery?
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
PUBLIC ADDRESS 24/11/04 - Man of Mystery? Man of Mystery? | Nov 24, 2004 10:16 Russell Brown's Hard News More >>
Public Address 23/11/04 - Mo' Moral Values
Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 12:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The US election exit poll results that found ''moral values'' was the key issue in the minds of Republican voters have been shouted down by all sorts of people who found them inconvenient - but the first post-election Pew survey has reached almost ... More >>
Public Address 22/11/04 - Ancestors Of The Mind
Monday, 22 November 2004, 11:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's easy to forget that today's debates about culture and identity are not all new, and that the thinking of years past can be usefully applied today. I was alerted to Jim Traue's 1990 pamphlet Ancestors of the Mind by a friend who had had it ''kicking ... More >>
Public Address 19/11/04 - Fridayed
Friday, 19 November 2004, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I have a tendency to overcommit, which is why I spent this morning finishing a slightly-past-deadline Wide Area News column for the Listener (on the clever Cunliffes and IdolBlog), and why the sun is passing over the yard-arm as I begin today's post... More >>
Public Address 18/11/04 - Sando To Amsterdam
Thursday, 18 November 2004, 4:53 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What, exactly, was Trevor Mallard thinking when he told a group of businesspeople that it was a pity the Supreme Court had not been appointed on merit? Did he think it wouldn't get out - which would be naïve - or did he intend it to get out... More >>
Public Address 17/11/04 - Have A Go
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 12:06 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I can't help but think that the National Party's refusal to participate in the government's constitutional review indicates a fatal lack of confidence. Even if everything Don Brash said about the review yesterday is true - that it is a political move aimed ... More >>
Public Address 16/11/04 - Dorothy!
Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 1:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Dorothy G. Dean of Bluff has died, but not, she would have expected, gone to Heaven. I was saddened last night to hear that my favourite correspondent, a 74 year-old, self-described ''liberal, staunch Labour feminist sceptic atheist'' had suddenly ... More >>
Public Address 15/11/04 - Another Night
Monday, 15 November 2004, 3:12 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Warmest congratulations to Bizgirl for taking out the Best Personal Blog category at Friday Night's NetGuide Web Awards. I discovered only a day or so previous that I actually knew Bizgirl, only as a bloke, and was thus on the night in a position ... More >>
Public Address 11&12/11/04 - Madness And Drama
Friday, 12 November 2004, 11:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When a Ministry of Research, Science and Technology discussion paper earlier this year recommended that the government provide at least part of the funding for a gigabit-speed Advanced Network, it seemed hopeful news indeed... More >>
Public Address 08/11/04 - Rage, Hubbub & Adoration
Monday, 8 November 2004, 6:09 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
America has re-elected its president. Well, as Forrest Gump said, that's all I have to say about that. Other than this. When it all went down television's Jane Young breathlessly informed us the election proved America was a deeply conservative country... More >>
Public Address 05/11/04 - Fretful As Ever
Friday, 5 November 2004, 3:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
As part of my new programme of post-election emotional maintenance, I got irie last night, put on Deja Voodoo nice and loud and cleaned up the kitchen. And I got to thinking about how an economic split between the red and blue states might measure ... More >>
Public Address 04/11/04 - Get Yer Evangelicals Out
Thursday, 4 November 2004, 12:16 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Clearly, Karl Rove got his four million evangelical Christians. That is the number reckoned to have stayed away from the polls in 2000, and, by coincidence, almost exactly Bush's margin in the popular vote in 2004... More >>
Public Address 03/11/04 - Coverage
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 11:16 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was scrambling to finish yesterday's post when it was suggested that I jump in a taxi and get myself down to the Hilton for Paul Holmes' press conference. Only Holmes could presume to upstage the most important US Presidential election in a ... More >>
Public Address 02/11/04 - It's The Science, Stupid
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 12:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It will come as no surprise that, like most of the rest of the world, I am saying a secular prayer that John Kerry wins the US Presidential election. But some readers might be surprised to know that what really turns my stomach about the Bush administration ... More >>
