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Public Address 23/03/04 - Out For A Duck
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 9:57 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of the joys of being a self-employed knowledge worker is that when you want to go and do something, you go and do it. So When the ninth South African wicket fell at Eden Park yesterday, Fiona and I decided we'd get down there and witness a historic ... More >>
Public Address 22/03/04 - Non-Trivial
Monday, 22 March 2004, 11:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Looks like it's going to be another interesting round of polls. The odd thing about last night's One News Colmar Brunton poll, which saw National jump to 49% support, is that apart from the obvious - running a stark 10 points behind its rival - it's ... More >>
Public Address 19/03/04 - Petrolheads
Friday, 19 March 2004, 12:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There are many ironies to the Auckland City Council's mad-headed bid to stage the V8 Supercar Championship Series around Victoria Park: not the least of them that a council that has aggressively pursued any kind of noise made in pursuit of culture ... More >>
Public Address 18/03/04 - Party Off, Dudes
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 1:36 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So the Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs meets tomorrow to decide the fate of the legal party pills trade. But if the comments in today's Herald story on the subject are any indication, it would be a little difficult to have great confidence in its ... More >>
Public Address 17/03/04 - Sin 'n' Things
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 3:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Is anyone concerned about our political leaders apparent inability to engage in a sustained debate without getting personal? We've already surrendered each day's parliamentary Question Time to name calling, mindless goading and point scoring. This doesn't seem ... More >>
Public Address 16/3/04 - New Realities, Old Voices
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The right-wing blogosphere is up in arms about the Spanish election result. With Aznar's rejection by an electorate that apparently swung against him in the days following last week's murderous bombings, they believe, the terrorists have won... More >>
Public Address 15/03/04 - Prime Communications
Monday, 15 March 2004, 2:35 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The stories of the so-called Guantanamo Five - the five Britons returned to their home country after two years at Camp X-Ray last week - haven't been big news here, but they make for extremely disturbing reading... More >>
Public Address 12/04/04 - Mysteries
Friday, 12 March 2004, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The more I look at John Banks' massive Eastern Transport Corridor, the more I think that it's not actually going to happen. For a start, it seems less clear with each passing day where the money is going to come from... More >>
Public Address 11/03/04 - Just Thoughts
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 1:08 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It has gone curiously unremarked in the media that the Business Roundtable has warmly praised the submission from the Treaty Tribes Coalition on the foreshore and seabed issue. To its credit, the BRT is being consistent... More >>
Public Address 10/03/04 - We May Have A Fact
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 3:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I find it a little difficult to consider the proposed $4 billion Eastern Transport Corridor for Auckland without wondering what's in it for me, as an Auckland City ratepayer. The project seems likely to deliver vastly increased traffic volumes to ... More >>
Public Address 09/03/04 - Very Wellington
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 1:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We emerge from Wellington Airport into a southerly scooting up from Lyall Bay. The sky is blue and clear above, but the sharp, chill wind is a shock after Auckland's muckier atmosphere. Wellingtonians have been worn down by their weather this summer, ... More >>
Public Address 08/03/04 - Hits And Myths
Monday, 8 March 2004, 4:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Clearly, it is going to be a very long election campaign. Helen Clark has made her "bring it on" speech, Richard Prebble has outlined the case for Act, and Don Brash has sounded the horn of triumph... More >>
Public Address 03/03/04 - Memory
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 11:44 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Since Don Brash's Orewa speech, there has been a lot of huffing and puffing from his supporters about name-calling and playing the man, not the ball, and, y'know, having the debate. They would seem to have hurtled down from the high ground with ... More >>
Public Address 02/03/04 - Comfortable And Proud
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 12:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
About six years ago, I was at an old friend's birthday party in Wellington. Another old buddy excused himself after only an hour. "Gotta go," he explained. "We need to finish some R&D before the boss flies out to LA tomorrow." The boss was Peter ... More >>
Public Address 01/03/04 - Big Monday
Monday, 1 March 2004, 1:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What's it like to be so powerful that you're a threat to your own structural integrity? You could ask Rupeni Caucaunibuca. The Blues' Fijian winger has had mutually exclusive problems in the past: if he trained, he got injured; if he didn't train, he got fat... More >>
Public Address 27/02/04 - Scandals And All
Friday, 27 February 2004, 2:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A Friday treble for you all. Feel free to turn a friend or three onto Public Address today - we're nearly at the end of our first month of official measurement by Red Sheriff, and every new unique user is a good thing. More >>
Public Address 26/02/04 - Shore Thing
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 12:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So the foreshore proposal looks set to go from "people's title managed by the Crown" to "people's title vested in the Crown" - does it make much of a difference? Fundamentally, no. In the court of public opinion, quite possibly... More >>
Public Address 24/02/04 - Fresh Hair
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 11:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So anyway, onto the other issue gripping the nation - shirts off at the vege shop: acceptable conduct or not? Hard News readers have spoken, and getting it off in a retail environment is not on... http://publicaddress.net/default,1033.sm#post1033 More >>
Public Address 23/04/03 - Discussions
Monday, 23 February 2004, 12:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It generally takes something pretty substantial to drag our media around from the day-to-day focus on personalities and press releases and towards coverage of an issue in depth, but our sudden swelling of public feeling on race is clearly such a thing... More >>
Public Address 20/02/04 - Lots Of Good Reading
Friday, 20 February 2004, 3:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What with all the issues and everything, I haven't got around this week to writing something about going to see Evan Dando play on Tuesday night, if only so as to use the headline above... More >>
