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Public Address 25/05/04 - Big Issues

Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 12:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Plenty of reader responses, then, to yesterday's post picking through the falsehoods and faulty logic of the Sunday Star Times "shock" lead story on the Crimes Amendment (No 2) Bill. With a single exception they have all been roughly as appalled as I ... More >>

Public Address 24/05/04 - Facts Are Out Of Fashion

Monday, 24 May 2004, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

The Crimes Amendment (No 2) Bill aims to clear up our updated and contradictory laws on s*xu*l offending. It introduces a new offence of drug r*pe, markedly toughens the area around predatory behaviour by adults towards children and aims to remove ... More >>

Public Address 21/05/04 - Three Guys

Friday, 21 May 2004, 12:16 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I confess, the spectator appeal of motorsport pretty much eludes me, so I'm not coming to the issue of Auckland's seven-year contract for V8 supercar racing as a fan. But - deja vu all over again - Mayor Banks seems to be writing verbal cheques he'll have ... More >>

Public Address 20/05/04 - Not Unbundling

Thursday, 20 May 2004, 12:02 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

It didn't take a genius to predict that Paul Swain wasn't going to impose local loop unbundling on Telecom. Even if the Telecommunications Commissioner's recommendation had been to unbundle, it might not have happened. But the funny thing is that the ... More >>

Public Address 19/05/04 - Idols And Obligations

Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 12:49 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I've never met Oliver Driver, but I'm liking the cut of his jib. Not only did he have an excellent clown fight on Serial Killers on Friday ("Hey, when you get the chance to smack a clown, you take it."), but he fronted Frontseat on Sunday in a ... More >>

Public Address 18/05/04 - Spoiled For Choice

Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 11:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

So what's the lead in Iraq today? Head of Governing Council assassinated? One not-very-mass WMD turns up? Pentagon denial of New Yorker claim that accountability for prison abuse goes all the way up followed by another investigation that says the same thing? ... More >>

Public Address 17/05/04 - Running On Empty

Monday, 17 May 2004, 1:54 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

Dear Island Life? Where are you? Got any more quizzes planned? How's Mary-Margaret? I'm very well indeed, and thanks for asking. I have this habit of saying "yes" to anyone who asks me to do a job - or at least any job that sounds like fun… More >>

PUBLIC ADDRESS 14/05/04 - Five For Friday!

Friday, 14 May 2004, 12:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

After wondering whether we'd have anything to post today I unexpectedly find us with a Friday feast. You are cordially invited skive off and spend the rest of the day reading blogs. More >>

Public Address 13/05/04 - One Big Blog

Thursday, 13 May 2004, 12:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

So a billion dollars' work has been lopped off Auckland's Eastern Corridor proposal because there's no apparent way of paying for it. It's hard to credit that when John Banks announced the big plan last year he was trumpeting a new harbour tunnel to ... More >>

Public Address 12/05/04 - Idol Thoughts

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 11:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

I was mildly astonished when I saw BMG's Michael Bradshaw inform 17-year-old NZ Idol runner-up Michael Murphy that "you've got a contract with BMG too" and insist on shaking his hand for the camera on Holmes last night... More >>

Public Address 11/05/04 - Things To Know

Tuesday, 11 May 2004, 2:37 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

The last year and a bit of war in Iraq has demonstrated that none of us know as much as we think we do; and that we all tend to fall back (some fall further than others) to simply knowing what we believe... More >>

Public Address 10/05/4 - All The Moves

Monday, 10 May 2004, 1:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

One of the more vexing elements for the government of its troubles in the past week or two is surely that they have helpfully served to obscure the behaviour of senior National MPs as complete doofuses... More >>

Public Address 07/05/04 - Some Week

Friday, 7 May 2004, 2:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

It appears that we may not have seen the half yet of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. The Washington Post has taken possession of more than 1000 disturbing digital images ("a soldier holding a leash tied around a man's neck in an Iraqi prison... More >>

Public Address 06/05/04 - Trouble All Over

Thursday, 6 May 2004, 2:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

So the movement associated with the hikoi has genuine momentum: that's clear. What's less clear is exactly what the marchers want, and whether they all want the same thing. If the belief regarding the key issue (the government's response to the Appeal ... More >>

Public Address 04/05/04 - Mutton Chops & Martinis

Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 2:40 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

For now, my money's on the Daily Mirror's pictures of British soldiers abusing Iraqi POWs being fakes, even if the stories they relate to aren't. The expert analysis of evidence in the pictures, if reported correctly, raises some serious questions... More >>

Public Address 03/05/04 - Messier

Monday, 3 May 2004, 12:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

So, having killed who knows-how-many-hundred Iraqis, created tens of thousands of refugees and flattened whole neighbourhoods, the US military command is now to hand over Fallujah to a group of officers from the Iraqi Army it disbanded only last year... More >>

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