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Public Address 01/11/04 - Getting Closer
Monday, 1 November 2004, 12:09 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Craig Unger's book House of Bush, House of Saud has made a compelling link between the first families of two nations. But to what effect? I interviewed Unger three weeks ago for the New Zealand Herald, but space constraints and other events meant ... More >>
Public Address 29/10/04 - Blogging It All
Friday, 29 October 2004, 12:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
John Tamihere is reportedly being advised by "senior Labour figures" to pay back part of the $195,000 payment he received from the Waiparera Trust "as a way of salvaging his career". Am I alone in not being particularly fussed about this particular element ... More >>
Public Address 28/10/04 - The Number Is Three
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 11:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'll forgo the hurly-burly and the link-o-rama today in favour of three personal statements from three very different individuals. The first is a friend of a friend who took a Discount Taxi in Auckland on Saturday... More >>
Public Address 27/10/04 - Sweet And Sad
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 2:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Hope to be taking home a new iMac G5 before Christmas? Don't leave the shop without a Firewire cable - not if you're a current MacOS X user anyway. I uplifted my machine from Magnum Mac's first shipment of 17 (yes, being a journalist helps) on Friday ... More >>
Public Address 26/10/04 - Nightmare Scenario Et Al
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 12:36 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The disappearance of 350 tonnes of specialist high explosive that at the time of last year's invasion of Iraq was under IAEA lockdown appears to be a case not only of grotesque incompetence by the occupying powers, but of a sustained cover-up... More >>
Public Address 22/10/04 - Freaky Friday
Friday, 22 October 2004, 1:53 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Herald this morning says a drop in lab busts indicates that the P epidemic has peaked - while Stuff is saying that amphetamine use is increasingly being picked up in workplace drug tests... More >>
Public Address 21/10/04 - Be Our Guest, Mr Zaoui
Thursday, 21 October 2004, 12:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Scribe has gone gold in Australia. The 'Not Many'/'Stand Up' single has reached the 35,000 sales gold mark, and his debut album, The Crusader will probably soon join it in gold status. This is a remarkable achievement, not least in that both sides ... More >>
Public Address 20/10/04 - After Corngate
Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 12:39 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I agree with Nicky Hager: it isn't correct to say that the Corngate select committee report released yesterday leaves us none the wiser about the events of late 2000 and early 2001. On the contrary, as he pointed out yesterday on Checkpoint, it advances ... More >>
Public Address 19/10/04 - Trust?
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 11:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Assuming it was accurate, last night's 3 News report on the Waiparera Trust seems to indicate that somebody stole money from the trust in 1999. There can be no other gloss put on the revelations of invoices from bogus companies and matching cheques ... More >>
Public Address 18/10/04 - Debates And Dopes
Monday, 18 October 2004, 12:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I've been fascinated by the controversy over John Kerry's mention of Dick Cheney's l*sbian daughter, Mary, during the third presidential debate. In answering a question about whether homosexuality was a choice or not, after Bush had claimed that he didn't ... More >>
Public Address 15/10/04 - This Is A Good Day
Friday, 15 October 2004, 10:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
This is a good day. Why? Because our new feature, Great New Zealand Argument, launches with what I'm pretty sure is the first published transcript of David Lange's 1985 Oxford Union debate speech... More >>
Public Address 14/10/04 - Curiousity!
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 1:47 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In this time of peace and reconciliation in local body Auckland, it would seem a little tacky to be in possession of the infamous Hubbard-NBR PDFs, wouldn't it? Yet if you go to Aaron Bhatnagar's blog, click on the link marked My personal photos, ... More >>
Public Address 13/10/04 - Weird Wars
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 12:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The news that during the occupation that followed the war to stop weapons technology falling into the wrong hands, equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons have been steadily vanishing would seem to be taking irony just a ... More >>
Public Address 12/10/04 - Town, Country & Culture
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 11:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Auckland elections: Hurry up and wait. I wasn't going to write about the Auckland mayoral election because … Well frankly, why would you bother? People have said it was the dirtiest campaign in years, I just thought it downright depressing... More >>
Public Address 11/10/04 - Toast
Monday, 11 October 2004, 2:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Eastern motorway - whichever of the multiple versions you're talking about - is toast. There can hardly have been an Aucklander who didn't know it was an issue when he or she voted in the local body elections, and to take anything other than ... More >>
Public Address 08/10/04 - 'Nuff Blogs!
Friday, 8 October 2004, 1:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
As the light now falling on the grim history of bullying and abuse at the Waiouru cadet school finds its most grim artefact yet - allegations of pack rape - we should bear in mind that it is a mark of our times that these stories can finally... More >>
Public Address 07/10/04 - Hospo Gossip
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 12:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Noelle McCarthy did a couple of great interviews on Tuesday's Wire on 95bFM on the matter of the Restaurant Association's plan to introduce drug-testing for hospitality industry workers. First up was Alistair Duncan of the Union of Food Handlers, who ... More >>
Public Address 06/10/04 - Alternative Reality News
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 12:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Donald Rumsfeld says he has not seen "any strong, hard evidence" linking the old Iraqi regime and al Qaeda. Hardly surprising: no one has. Then he has to rush out a damage-control statement in which he claims to have been "regrettably misunderstood." ... More >>
Public Address 05/10/04 - Glam And Not
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 11:06 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I got around to the service station about 7am on Sunday, to pick up some copies of the Herald on Sunday, to discuss a couple of hours later on Mediawatch. And my response on seeing it was, is that it?... More >>
Public Address 04/10/04 - Look Over There
Monday, 4 October 2004, 12:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Maybe it's high time we came up with a new word for the kind of politics espoused by our good friend Mr Peters. 'Wedge' seems to be the word of choice these days, but it just doesn't really encapsulate the deliberate division he aims for with mindless ... More >>
