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Public Address 19/02/04 - Humans Write
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 11:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Am I the only one watching the story of the 16-year-old Sri Lankan girl with a growing sense of disbelief? For a start, would it kill One News to remind its viewers that she was sent home because, like hundreds of other people every year, she didn't meet ... More >>
Public Address 18/02/04 - Elephant Hippy Pork
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 12:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GUEST Richard Neville - Last week I spoke at the "Gala Dinner" hosted by the Australian Internet Industry Association at Sydney's Luna Park. The speech followed an address given by the Federal Minister of Communications, IT and the Arts, Daryl Williams, ... More >>
Public Address 17/02/04 - Pop Life
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 11:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I wondered how long this would take to happen: Apple iPod music players are to be sold through the Sounds music store chain - with download kiosks planned for later this year. The problem, of course, is that copying a song from a CD you have purchased ... More >>
Public Address 16/02/03 - All Over The Place
Monday, 16 February 2004, 1:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It seems to have escaped some people that NZ Idol isn't a talent quest, it's a TV format. Sure, it's a TV format based on a talent quest, but that's not quite the same thing... More >>
Public Address 13/02/04 - Pop Quiz!
Friday, 13 February 2004, 12:15 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm off to the cricket today, but here are two fine post for your education and amusement. I can't urge you strongly enough to read David's post and take his Treaty pop quiz and tell your friends to do the same. But, hey - that's just me: I tend to prefer ... More >>
Public Address 12/02/04 - Reaching For The Logic
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 12:31 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Gordy doesn't know why I'm "so obsessed with Act" and is taking extreme exception to the phrase "the big fella", which he regards as equally as "thuggish" as "bl*ck fella". I'm not sure if he'd agree with the big people's rights advocate who declared ... More >>
Public Address 11/02/04 - Flushed
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 12:09 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Oh great. The first day back in Parliament and the National Party's new Maori Affairs spokesperson asks if he can call a Maori MP a "bl*ck fella". Ever get the feeling your country is being flushed down the t*ilet? More >>
Public Address 10/02/04 - Better, Faster, Cheaper?
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 11:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So I get some relief on broadband pricing - but only if I drop from full-speed JetStream to a 256k service. As ever, Telecom is inclined to do no more than meet the market. And for so long as the market remains tepid, so will the incumbent's offerings... More >>
Public Address 09/02/04 - Rushes
Monday, 9 February 2004, 11:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Clearly, things got emotional at Waitangi this year, but we'd do well to remember that we have seen far more dramatic events in Waitangi Day's brief history as a national celebration. In 1984, the last commemoration before Treaty claims were seriously ... More >>
Public Address 04/02/04 - D&D Styles
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 10:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
David Slack - Fancy running an online business? Like to become an electronic Arkwright? Very good idea. You can go to the gym while everyone's at work, you can walk down to the beach when your brain slows down, and you can visit the Letterman site any ... More >>
Public Address 03/02/04 - Whoopsies
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 12:54 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Remember the Act Party's holiday horror story about how much more tax money those freeloading Maori receive than they pay? In this week's issue of The Listener Brian Easton forgoes a trip to the beach to stay home and check the Act parliamentary research ... More >>
Public Address 02/02/04 -Storms
Monday, 2 February 2004, 12:41 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
OK, it's an odd little place. Ka Tiritiriotemoana - also known as the Southern Alps - are the eastward backdrop: there are swathes of bush in a thousand shades of green & bronze sweeping down to the settlement, and wide stoney ironsand beaches and ... More >>
Public Address 30/01/04: Jumbo Hutton's Bonus Pack
Friday, 30 January 2004, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Apparently, you need a higher standard of proof to make a radio broadcast than to take a nation to war. I'm not being flippant. That is the clear implication of the findings of the Hutton Inquiry... More >>
Public Address 29/01/04 - How Cool Is This?
Thursday, 29 January 2004, 10:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Two cracking posts today: from the fresh-faced David Slack and the ageing Damian Christie. A post from me would be too much, methinks, so I'll be back tomorrow with musings on Hutton and why Don Brash feels compelled to insult people who have served ... More >>
Public Address 28/01/04 - Art And Politics
Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 1:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So was that the speech of a man who wants to win the next election - or one who doesn't want to lose it too horribly? I ask, because it appears to me that any government that actually sought to implement the full extent of the programme outlined... More >>
Public Address 27/01/04 - Monday Lunch
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 12:27 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If journalists who allowed themselves to be bought food and drink by interested parties were deemed guilty of corruption, there wouldn't be many of us left in the trade. Although I am by no means a champion luncher, I am occasionally fed and watered by ... More >>
Public Address 23/01/04 - Fish And Bird
Friday, 23 January 2004, 12:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, this ought to get entertaining. Winston Peters, whose claims had a great deal to do with the establishment of a select committee inquiry into alleged corruption in allocating scampi quota, allowed himself to be shouted a fish supperby the alleged ... More >>
Public Address 22/01/04 - Foreign Correspondence
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 12:11 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
After Bush's State of the Union speech last year, a couple of correspondents ticked me off for being churlish about the billions promised to fight Aids in Africa. Well, a year later,not a penny of those billions has been allocated - and 2005 Aids funding ... More >>
Public Address 20/01/03 - Interpretations
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 3:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When Muldoon was still Prime Minister, I became a suit in an advertising agency. I would call it an accident, and I'd rate it as one of my more regrettable ones. I had a part-time job in a pub in Wellington and I was getting towards the end of ... More >>
Public Address 19/01/04 - News From The Front
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 9:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I have been to every Big Day Out since it launched in New Zealand in 1994, but I don't think I've ever enjoyed one more than the one that took place on Friday. It was loud, happy, tiring and surprising, and the music was mostly great... More >>
