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Public Address 29/07/04 - Spooky Extremes
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 4:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
National MP Nick Smith has promised an end to the "spiritual nonsense" he says is being forced on New Zealanders by Christian churches. He says his party will end "bizarre" restraints on legitimate commercial activity on such days as "Good" Friday... More >>
Public Address 28/07/04 - Responses
Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 1:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The brilliant Michael Wolff has a great essay on "Kerry's Karl Rove" - senior campaign adviser Bob Shrum - in the current issue of Vanity Fair. Wolff was unable to secure an interview with Shrum, but he draws a fascinating and convincing picture of the ... More >>
Public Address 27/07/04 - Fresh
Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 1:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I like the look of the New Zealand Institute, if only because we do need some fresh intellectual energy. Face it: if you don't know what Roger Kerr or the EPMU are going to say about anything by now you haven't been paying attention for the last 15... More >>
Public Address 23/07/04 - T'ings & Times
Friday, 23 July 2004, 1:19 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
With the 9/11 commission report offering, as these things tend to, a little something for everyone, the public and commentators will presumably be urged by the White House to move on from all the unpleasantness... More >>
Public Address 22/07/04 - Loco Moto
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 6:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's hard not to feel that the time was when a Prime Minister speeding to make a crucial rugby test match might have been hailed as a true New Zealander. In 2004, it becomes another do-we-really-not-have-anything-better-to-worry-about flurry of ... More >>
Public Address 20/07/04 - Glass Houses
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 3:39 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I finally got around to downloading and watching watching Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend. I had planned to take up the offer of a ticket for tonight's New Zealand cinematic premiere, but I can't go... More >>
Public Address 19/07/04 - Considerations
Monday, 19 July 2004, 12:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Feeling the pull of the obligation to do 'academic'-type things I went to a public lecture the other day to hear some geezers talk about ''community building''. More >>
Public Address 16/07/04 - Take That!
Friday, 16 July 2004, 5:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
No, it won't have done Helen Clark any political harm domestically to have been able to lay down the law to the Israeli government on live TV last night. The sentencing just before 6pm of the two Israeli agents on charges of fraudulently attempting to ... More >>
Public Address 14/07/04 - Happy Returns
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 4:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Auckland Zoo was brilliant yesterday. The welcome winter sun seemed to have stirred every bird and beastie into action. The emus, with their big, amber eyes, stuck their beaks over the barriers at small children; the kaka in the aviary swooped down and ... More >>
Public Address 15/07/04 - Large Fee
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 4:19 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On the one hand, it seems playing video games might actually be good for your kids (phew!) as this story and this story reveal, but on the other, they're going to need specs to play them, which should at least keep one sector of... More >>
Public Address 13/07/04 - News & Schnurgle
Tuesday, 13 July 2004, 4:47 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Righto: APN has signed off on plans for its new Sunday newspaper, which will publish out of the New Zealand Herald's offices but can't hire any Herald staff. It will launch in September. Former INL people Rick Neville and former Sunday Star Times ... More >>
Public Address 12/07/04 - Respect And Reason
Monday, 12 July 2004, 1:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I never met T P McLean, but I long admired him for his ability to bring style and grace to sports journalism, for his vision of why sport ("the study of the human being under stress") was a worthy topic for literary exercise, and for the fact that ... More >>
Public Address 09/07/04 - The Week That Was
Friday, 9 July 2004, 3:47 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Oh good, more sport for the weekend. So call me a victim of the capitalist culture industry's deadening of civil dissent through mindless spectacle. You wouldn't be the first. Don't care. I'm allowed to be anaesthetised sometimes, aren't I?... More >>
Public Address 08/07/04 - Two Guests
Thursday, 8 July 2004, 4:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The one thing we're all going to have to watch out for is the danger of getting lost in apathy towards the events playing themselves out in the Middle East. I watched 1984 a couple of years back to bring myself up to speed on that old idea of totalitarianism... More >>
Public Address: Houston, We Have A Problem ...
Wednesday, 7 July 2004, 10:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was with the kids at Incredible Science on Monday morning, thus missing Linda Clark's interview with National leader Don Brash about his party's new law and order pitch, but someone has kindly sent me a transcript... More >>
Public Address 06/06/04 - Gossip, Rumour And Fact
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 12:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Whatever the merits of Canwest's New Zealand IPO, it might not be wise to count its acquisition of MTV programming for C4 among them: not when MTV itself may be with us as soon as September... More >>
Public Address 02/07/04 - Friday Special
Friday, 2 July 2004, 4:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's pouring down outside and it really feels like winter. Over the past week or so we've had winds so strong it knocked out my internet connection; hail so hard it sounded like thousands of little balls of ice hitting the roof; and lightning ... More >>
Public Address 01/07/04 - A Bumper Offering
Thursday, 1 July 2004, 1:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Perhaps we will never really know what brought 17 year-old Thomas John Davidson to Auckland's Northwestern motorway at 5.30 last Friday morning, there to be killed, under the Newton Road overpass, by a truck... More >>
Public Address 30/06/04 - Boundless!
Wednesday, 30 June 2004, 12:27 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I can't help but wonder if the current atmosphere of moral panic has arisen partly because people don't have enough else to worry about: certainly not the economy, which is presently spewing out remarkably good news... More >>
Public Address 29/06/04 - Hope
Tuesday, 29 June 2004, 11:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It wasn't the tickertape parade that the war's backers would have hoped for, but we should all hope that the surprise handover of sovereignty in Iraq does actually improve things for Iraqis themselves, even if what emerges looks more like the old ... More >>
