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Public Address 01/10/04 - Shilly-Shallying
Friday, 1 October 2004, 1:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I feel that I should offer some stern consideration to the government's continuing ugliness in the matter of Ahmed Zaoui, or Trevor Mallard's attempt to pretend that over-long school powhiri are a pressing issue … But it's been a long week and I lack ... More >>
Public Address 30/09/04 - Tiny Triumphs + Catchup
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 1:37 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
to a ski trip the regular Public Address service has experienced an interruption over the past week. This edition – including today's offerings – catches up with the messages you will have missed. More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS The envelope, please ...
Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So, how to vote in the local body elections? I'm not averse on principle to sending the odd vote to a CitRat candidate - the late Phil Warren always got a tick from me - but I'm blowed if I can see one I'd want to back from this year's Citizens & ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS Sep 27, 2004 - Hitting the fan
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 10:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, you know things have become a tad frisky when you're having Titewhai Harawira mediating for you, don't you? But even if John Banks, Dick Hubbard and Christine Fletcher can agree to henceforth play nice, it can hardly change the fact that this ... More >>
Public Address 22/09/04 - The Pain
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 12:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Nick Smith has an interesting story in this week's Listener on forensic psychiatrist Yolande Lucire. It's just a shame that she's completely full of sh*t. Lucire holds that what we know as repetitive strain injury is really a form of workplace hysteria, ... More >>
Public Address 21/09/04 - First Responders
Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 11:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
You might be thinking that the right time to write a letter to the editor of a newspaper would be after you'd read the newspaper in question. Get with the programme, Sparky. In the cyber-age, you can start writing your letters to the editor before the thing's ... More >>
Public Address 20/09/04 - Hubbard et al
Monday, 20 September 2004, 10:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I dropped into Magazzino on Friday to pick up a copy of the National Business Review so I could read its Dick Hubbard hatchet job in its entirety. All five pages of it. But unfortunately, there were no NBRs... More >>
Public Address 17/09/04 - Pleas, Please
Friday, 17 September 2004, 1:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Phillip Layton Edwards, having been convicted of manslaughter rather than the murder of David McNee, has now been sentenced to nine years' jail, with the (relatively unlikely) possibility of parole after four and a half years... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 16/09/04 - Get Me Out Of Here!
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 1:17 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Clearly, this is the right time for New Zealand's lightly-armed engineering corp to be gotten the hell out of Iraq. Although the Minister of Defence is, inevitably, offering a benign explanation - the troops have simply reached the end of their year-long ... More >>
Public Address 15/09/04 - Energy And Freedom
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 12:15 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A couple of guest posts today. I would recommend putting some time aside to read Dave McArthur's essay, which advances the view that we're steadily moving further away from what a modern electricity network ought to be. More >>
Public Address 14/09/04 - Major Barney
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 11:46 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
John Barnett has come out swinging on the New Zealand Idol funding issue in a comment piece on the OnFilm website. Critics of New Zealand On Air's $450,000 grant/loan/equity investment in New Zealand's adoption of the Idol franchise... More >>
Public Address 13/09/04 - Hello Goodbye
Monday, 13 September 2004, 12:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The flap over the forged-or-not memos that reflect badly on Bush's National Guard service - and, more particularly, indicate that he has previously lied about same - is beyond bizarre. If the CBS papers are fakes, who's the source? It's really impossible ... More >>
Public Address 10/09/04 - Rock Against Blowhards
Friday, 10 September 2004, 1:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Much as everyone enjoys beating up on TVNZ, it's only fair to extend the warmest praise for the current Saturday night 'NZ Festival' season on TV One. Sheilas, which revisited a group of local proto-feminists from the late 1960s and early 70s, and ... More >>
Public Address 09/09/04 - The Idol Crisis & More
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 12:39 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
At election time in a modern economy such as ours, the USA's multi-trillion dollar projected fiscal deficits would be a massive, screaming, huge issue. Although the incumbent might seek to play down such a fiscal crisis, you'd expect someone to enter ... More >>
Public Address 08/09/04 - Innocents II
Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 10:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It would seem some other blog has linked to Monday's post, because yesterday afternoon I got a sudden rush of emails whose collective message might be paraphrased as "YOU ARE A FRIEND OF THE CHILD-MURDERING TERRORISTS! AN APOLOGIST FOR AL-QAEDA! YOU HATE ... More >>
Public Address 07/09/04: Locked Up And Glassy-Eyed
Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 12:54 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Our prisons are full and frontline police are having to act as jailers. It appears that the four new prisons we're currently building will provide insufficient capacity. Well, that's what you get when you alter the system so as to lock up even more people... More >>
Public Address 06/09/04 - The Innocents
Monday, 6 September 2004, 12:02 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Beslan massacre has unfolded before all our eyes, and we have all thought "how could they kill children like this?" It was ghastly. But what do we then think about the fact that, according to Genocide Watch, Russian forces have slaughtered 50,000 ... More >>
Public Address 03/09/04 - Local, National, Global!
Friday, 3 September 2004, 12:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It seems that this blog has crept - or possibly stomped - into the consciousness of a number of candidates for the local body elections. The mayoral commentaries are still getting hits, and several candidates have seen fit to email me with comments... More >>
Public Address 02/09/04 - Principles
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 12:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So Downing Street has quietly told John Kerry it hopes he wins November's US presidential election. It's hardly surprising. With the exception of Israel, Australia and Italy, there probably isn't a sovereign government in the world that feels any different... More >>
Public Address 31/08/04 - The Race
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:26 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
And so, unsurprisingly, Dick Hubbard vaults to a lead over John Banks in the Auckland mayoral race by doing little more than putting his hand up. Labour - which, just quietly, was never very passionate about Bruce Hucker in the first place - gives ... More >>
