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Public Address 18/10/06 - Like It's A Bad Word
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2:35 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
On our three-weekly turn on Breakfast today, Deborah Hill Cone raised the matter of the Prime Minister slinging off at "right-wing blogger" Fran O'Sullivan on Newstalk ZB. She said the same thing on bFM this week too... More >>
Public Address 17/10/06 - Tricky Issues
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 12:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
With the latest allegations against Taito Philip Field, Helen Clark had little choice but to invite the police to decide who is telling the truth: her former minister - and currently suspended MP - or the Thai tiler who now says he was promised... More >>
Public Address 16/10/06 - Surplus Love
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Have you ever dreamed of being paid for your blogging? Dream no more; the tantalising details are just a click away. All you have to do is write what you admire about your favourite product or service, and the big corporations will pay you cash money ... More >>
Public Address 13/10/06 - Scramble!
Friday, 13 October 2006, 1:21 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If Kevin Brady was a judge, would he be accused of judicial activism? It seems a fair question, because he has certainly changed the landscape without changing the law. This not to suggest his findings are wrong - I don't claim the legal expertise ... More >>
Public Address 12/10/06 - Truth: More Convenient!
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 5:08 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
When I met John Ong at last year's ASPA awards I was super-impressed that his family was tight with the Lims of Lim's Supermarket and Lim Chhour foodcourt. This meant that he was famous. The Lims people, the Lims... More >>
Public Address 11/10/06 - Things In The Sky
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 11:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A superhero in Parliament named Spiderman? You don't know the half of it, unless you read Wikipedia or the funny pages. Read on, now, to learn about the Marvellous men and women guarding the corridors of power, and the evildoers who stand in their ... More >>
Public Address 10/10/06 - Prison Special
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 1:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Reader Stephen Walker got in touch yesterday with a WTF? as regards this Herald story about the visiting commentator Theodore Dalrymple, who told Herald reporter Simon Collins that the "s*xual revolution" and a consequent plague of s*xual jealousy ... More >>
Public Address 09/10/06 - Now Here's An Idea ...
Monday, 9 October 2006, 1:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
No Right Turn has useful coverage of Friday's climate change symposium, as well as commentary on the respective speeches of David Parker and Nick Smith. It appears Parker's presentation on government policy in the area could hardly have been more ... More >>
Public Address 05/10/06 - Infirmity Strikes!
Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If proof was ever wanted that I am bone-idle lazy, then this is it. Yes, I have a bad back. But it is not your normal sort of bad back which hurts when you pick things up, or when you do physical exercise... More >>
Public Address 06/10/06 - Smoking Guns, Sunny Days
Friday, 6 October 2006, 12:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One afternoon, high on a mountain in the South Island, I almost killed the man who now prosecutes the big murder trials on Wellington. Writing that gets me as near as my mild-mannered life can take me to "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"... More >>
Public Address 4/10/6 – Frivolous, Not Even Friday
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 11:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm lacking the application for serious blogging, so I might as well comment on this morning's Big Day Out lineup announcement. It doesn't really do it for me but, then, I'm not exactly the target market... More >>
Public Address 3/10/6 - Meet Our New Crew Member
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 2:49 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Just a quickie today, to welcome aboard our new crew member, David Haywood, and farewell the departing Che. Most of you will be familiar with David's fine work as a guest blogger for us, including his examination of energy policies, The Opposite of Cold ... More >>
Public Address 02/09/06 - Thanks For The Add
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 1:52 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's such a modern problem: the Exclusive Brethren ask to be added to your MySpace friends list - what do you do? After all, if you say yes, you will be able to send The Exclusive Brethren personal messages, view The Exclusive Brethren's photos and ... More >>
Public Address 29/09/06 - Goodbye To Che
Friday, 29 September 2006, 10:46 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, I guess this is goodbye. They say all good things must come to an end, and I guess they must be right. Except in Australia that is, where they say, "Go you good thing!"... More >>
Public Address 28/09/06 - Father And Son
Friday, 29 September 2006, 8:56 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I stood silently for a few moments watching my son sleep, before, with whatever sense tells us in our dreams that we are being watched, he rolled over to face me and opened drowsy, quizzical eyes... http://publicaddress.net/default,3548.sm More >>
Public Address 27/09/06 - Flight Of The Chumby
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 11:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Tired of reiterating that you don't care about politician's sex lives? How about deconstructing whether or not you should care about how 'your' team is doing on Survivor: Race War? Here's the liveblogged second episode on the endlessly sarcastic reappropriate, ... More >>
Public Address 25/09/06 - Cuckoo?
Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Strange as it may sound, some of Don Brash's colleagues will regard yesterday's strong One News Colmar Brunton poll as a mixed blessing. Even as they inevitably profess their loyalty to him, it will be occurring to them that perhaps Dr Brash does not ... More >>
Public Address 22/09/06 - Tally Ho!
Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:27 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Let us enter a realm where the only politics are those to do with which Able Tasmans album is best, whether the Dead C were done wrong, what was the finest hour of Shayne P Carter's Flying Nun era and whether the Gordons' debut album is really a Flying ... More >>
Public Address 21/09/06 - How Bizarre
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 12:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Are you ready for the OMC revival? Alan Jansson and Havindar Singh are launching a record label called Newco, whose first signing is OMC, ie: Alan Jansson and Pauly Fuemana. They'll look to re-connect with some of the four million people who bought ... More >>
Public Address 20/09/06 - Thai Coup Update
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 3:45 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yeah yeah, I know, like we haven't already thrown several thosuands words at you today ... But Tze Ming has just posted some good stuff on what's up with the Thai coup and what it means - which isn't necessarily what you'd think: More >>
