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Hard News 23/09/03 - Practices
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
And don't forget that from tomorrow, this will become the Public Address mailing list, not the Hard News mailing list. More >>
Hard News 22/09/03 - Gadgets
Monday, 22 September 2003, 12:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So Adam, who's a dustie, had had the intuition to cut open a bag he'd lifted and save the Sportronic 4 from oblivion. The rotten old batteries were replaced, Simon knocked up an RF lead and - yes! - we had a working model of New Zealand's own games ... More >>
Hard News 19/09/03 - Fried Day
Friday, 19 September 2003, 12:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Who'd be a Californian? Larry King's interview last night with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the man who would be Governor of the golden state, would have filled no sensible person with joy. Arnie, as you might expect, knew his lines well enough... More >>
Hard News 18/09/03 - Magic And Eternity
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 2:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A couple of nice posts from the lads, below. More >>
Hard News 17/09/03 - Trade and TV
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 1:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The New York Times has a backgrounder on Lee Kyung Hae , the Korean farmer who committed suicide last week as a protest against the WTO meeting in Cancun. Lee's action was hailed by Jane Kelsey in one of her newsletters from the meeting... More >>
Hard News 16/09/03 - TV Times
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 9:46 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yesterday, TVNZ announced that The Last Word was no longer. The Pam Corkery-fronted newstalk show would revert to a 30-minute news format and there would be "no further statement" on the matter, from anyone... http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post676 More >>
Hard News 15/09/03 - Sombre Hombre
Monday, 15 September 2003, 12:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Would that we all could go out like Johnny Cash . It almost defies belief that a man who was on hand for the genesis of rock 'n' roll could have spent his last decade making work as moving and relevant as anything he ever did before... More >>
Hard News 10/09/03 - Vices
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 11:10 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What kind of family-friendly party uses its limited political leverage to procure changes in gambling laws that will, without a shadow of a doubt, destroy a few more families? United Future, apparently. The new Gambling Bill, which passed another ... More >>
Hard News 09/08/03 - Transgressions And Trains
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 3:51 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Lock 'im up , demands this morning's Herald editorial on the disgraced TV3 newsreader Darren McDonald, who displayed insufficient "remorse, contrition and acknowledgment of guilt" to be allowed to apply for home detention. McDonald's star appearance on ... More >>
Hard News 08/08/03 - Sealed Section
Monday, 8 September 2003, 12:25 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Having courted a media beat-up with her upcoming book on the on the beauty of young boys, Germaine Greer throws another rock in the pond today with publication of the latest edition of Quarterly Essay ... More >>
Hard News 05/09/03 - Friday Frustrations
Friday, 5 September 2003, 12:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's been pointed out to me that Chad's Skatopia post missed last Friday's email, so I've included it here. More >>
Hard News 04/09/03 - War, Avalanche And Corruption
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 12:15 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm sorry, but this is getting silly. In Parliament yesterday Bill English accused all 35 chief executives of government departments - many of them appointed under the last National government - of corruption... More >>
Hard News 2/8/03: WTF?
Tuesday, 2 September 2003, 12:59 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
What on earth was all that about? The Prime Minister's broadside yesterday at the Green Party - and in particular, its co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons - looks not only unwise, but quite unjustified. Fitzsimmons' offence appears to have been voting with ... More >>
Hard News 01/09/03 - Abroad
Monday, 1 September 2003, 4:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A Question of Faith, Federation Square, Melbourne . A few weeks ago, after my visit to Canberra, I lamented the absence Colin McCahon's "Victory over Death II (I Am)" from the National Gallery of Australia... More >>
Hard News 29/08/03 - Feeling Parekura's Pain
Friday, 29 August 2003, 4:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I feel sorry for Parekura Horomia, whose absence from the house was so prominently noted the week. He has apparently had treatment to relieve fluid retention, dropped five stone in weeks, and suffered a consequent attack of the gout ... More >>
Hard News 28/08/03 - Full Spectrum Coverage
Thursday, 28 August 2003, 1:57 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Media coverage of the Corngate select committee inquiry continues to fascinate - and to offer the Opposition a priceless platform from which to embarrass the government. In Parliament yesterday National's Nick Smith yesterday tabled a December 2000 memo ... More >>
Hard News 26/08/03 - Hard And Soft
Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 12:16 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I despair sometimes, I really do. We heard yesterday from the Corngate select committee inquiry that the Prime Minister consulted her brother-in-law, a crop scientist, when she was first alerted to the possibility of an accidental GM release in November ... More >>
Hard News 25/08/03 - What We Did At The Weekend
Monday, 25 August 2003, 5:20 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Blood, fury and concussion. Terrible injuries. A mob baying for the head of the authorities. And that was just the rugby league. The Warriors won their way through to the NRL finals yesterday, when they conquered the Brisbane Broncos in what I think was the ... More >>
Hard News 22/08/03 - Shakin'
Friday, 22 August 2003, 3:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Nature's grand flourishes are great when no one gets hurt. Thus, we can all feel a bit excited about New Zealand's biggest earthquake in years . It would be a good day, then, to visit one of the veterans of the New Zealand Internet, the Institute ... More >>
Hard News 21/08/03 - Places To Be
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 5:24 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Phew. WTF is up with this Sobig.F worm? I don't think I've ever seen so much virus traffic in a 24-hour spell. The virus gaily spoofs "from" addresses, so there's no way of telling where it actually came from, but at least I know it's not ... More >>
