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Public Address 30/08/04 - Counting Up
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:05 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So the games are over for another four years, and just one question remains: who was that bloke who apparently represents us on the IOC, and thus hung the medals on our champions? Has anyone ever seen him before? Was I the only one worried every ... More >>
Public Address 27/08/04 - Hell-Bent For Leather
Friday, 27 August 2004, 2:04 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So, to a crescendo of mixed metaphors and malapropisms from the commentators, the New Zealanders ran in to gold and silver on the Olympic Triathlon. It was prime-time TV, and it was great. Hamish Carter's victory was, of course, all the sweeter in ... More >>
Public Address 26/08/04 - Royal Flush
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 12:18 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The new house needs a new motto, we decided after a frenzied, sweaty month of scrubbing and sanding and painting and plastering. On the previous owner's watch, a sepia-toned Jesus smiled woozily down on the front hall under the catchy Polish phrase ''Boze ... More >>
Public Address 25/08 - The Meat Raffle Of Destiny
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:57 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was keen for Tariana Turia to come on my 95bFM Wire show today to talk about the potential impact of the Destiny New Zealand party on on Maori politics, which, as I noted yesterday, is likely to be more pronounced than it is in the broader political ... More >>
Public Address 24/08/04 - The New Black
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 11:31 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
An attractive Maori woman in her thirties leaps out of a taxi and heads up the street with her son, who is about eight. They're both wearing 'Enough is Enough' t-shirts. She runs as fast as her shoes will permit and he's running as fast as he can to keep... More >>
Public Address 20/08/04 - Resigned To It ...
Friday, 20 August 2004, 10:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
These are thoroughly confusing times. For years we were led to believe by women's magazines that Suzanne Paul was, like, really-really rich. But now we learn she's having to the flog the silverware to find a paltry $1.2 million... More >>
Public Address 19/08/04 - Crumbs!
Thursday, 19 August 2004, 12:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, that does change things. The best thing John Banks has had going for him in his campaign to be re-elected as Mayor of Auckland has been his rivals. Whatever their legitimate claims on the job, neither Christine Fletcher or Bruce Hucker - ... More >>
Public Address 18/08/04 - Perspectives
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 10:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Nowt from me today (I have a radio show to pull together) but two very fine blogs from the crew for your information and enjoyment. Read 'em both. And wrap up warm in Welly now ... More >>
Public Address 17/08/04 - Trivial Typing Errors
Tuesday, 17 August 2004, 11:49 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of the perils of the line of work into which I have fallen, the media criticism part anyway, is that you won't always meet the standards you recommend to those around you. Thus, my new Wide Area News column in The Listener contains an error and an ... More >>
Public Address 16/08/04 - Funny Turns
Monday, 16 August 2004, 3:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The One News Colmar Brunton poll will have been the one that Labour was sweating on. Through some vagary of polling method, it is traditionally the unkindest poll for the centre-left. It was also the poll that confirmed the Brash backlash earlier ... More >>
Public Address 13/08/04 - Southern Boogie
Friday, 13 August 2004, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So I'm in the crowd, the D4 are firing out maximum rock 'n' roll, it's getting past midnight, and I'm thinking, first thing in the morning I have my US visa interview, and then I'm interviewing Murray Deaker... More >>
Public Address 12/08/04 - Lurid
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 12:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I had already figured that the jury in the David McNee case probably wouldn't be able to agree that there was murderous intent in the hail of blows that killed him, and so it transpired... More >>
Public Address 11/08/04 - Going Boom
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 12:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Once again, the economic indicators continue to confound widespread predictions of gloom: this time, with some fairly outstanding employment figures. Unemployment, down to 4%, is the lowest it's been in 17 years, and the second lowest in the OECD... More >>
Public Address 10/08/04 - Shadows
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 11:56 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A shadow National Party cabinet in which the Finance minister doesn't warrant a front-bench place? We do live in strange times. National is billing yesterday's reshuffle of responsibilities as a pointer to "the likely shape of a National Government Cabinet ... More >>
Public Address 09/08/03 - S*x And Terror
Monday, 9 August 2004, 2:34 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There was never a terror threat against the All Blacks. Indeed, it's far from certain there was ever a specific "threat" against their next playing venue, Johannesburg's Ellis Park. What can confidently be said is that it would be nice to know exactly ... More >>
Public Address 06/08/04 - Uncharitable
Friday, 6 August 2004, 2:42 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Student politics, as we all know, is a strange business. But it got more curious this week with the election, by a margin of a couple of hundred votes, of Greg Langton as president of the Auckland University Students Association... More >>
Public Address 05/08/04 - City Lives
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 11:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Knowing John Banks, he probably was thinking of George W. Bush when he invited his enemies to "bring it on" this week. But at least Bush had men with guns for enemies. The mayor of Auckland was declaring his war with Transit New Zealand... More >>
Public Address 03/08/04 - Pink Frost
Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 2:56 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It takes about 55 minutes to travel by train from Wellington station to Paraparaumu, and I passed the time on Saturday by dipping again into Michael King's Tread Softly For You Tread On My Life... http://publicaddress.net/default,1378.sm More >>
Public Address 02/08/04 - A Better Day, Perhaps
Monday, 2 August 2004, 3:39 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yes, it'll take another two years at least to conclude negotiations, and as long as the rich countries can wangle to properly implement, but the outcome of the Geneva WTO round - which finally puts agricultural export subsidies on the block - is both ... More >>
Public Address 30/07/04 - I, Bloke
Friday, 30 July 2004, 1:45 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm a heteros*xual male, me. And the last time I saw some, my blood was definitely red. I'm proud of it - to the extent that one can can feel pride in an accident of birth - and very definitely comfortable with it... More >>
