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Public Address 07/12/09 - Not in front of children
Monday, 7 December 2009, 11:59 am | Public Address
Not in front of the children | Dec 07, 2009 10:19 Russell Brown's Hard News A Herald editorial attempts, in unlovely prose, to consider the issues embodied in the furore around Paul Henry's unpleasant comments about Susan Boyle. It is justifiably cautious ... More >>
Public Address 3&4th/12/09 – Word of the Year
Friday, 4 December 2009, 1:58 pm | Public Address
We pre-recorded the Media7 Christmas Eve special last night, with commentary from Damian Christie, John Dybvig, Hazel Phillips, Vaughn Davis, Gemma Gracewood and Glenn 'Wammo' Williams -- and a special performance by James 'Lawrence Arabia' Milne, who ... More >>
ublic Address 01/12/09 - Keith Ng on the Taskforce
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 4:47 pm | Public Address
Update #1: Dull morning so far here at the TWG. Where's Don Brash to spice things up when you need him? Bill English make a dig at government spending, saying that the productivity for the rest of the economy is sound, it'the productivity of the ... More >>
Public Address 30/11/09 - Let's lynch the liberals
Monday, 30 November 2009, 2:41 pm | Public Address
I actually agree with the bulk of what Phil Goff said in last week's speech in Palmerston North. I do think the Maori Party has sold out poor urban Maori -- and for that matter the rest of us -- with its ETS deal. Pattrick Smellie... More >>
Public Address 26/11/09 - Party Time, Excellent
Friday, 27 November 2009, 12:55 pm | Public Address
We've always liked a party hereabouts, and I've always appreciated Gemma Gracewood's description of Public's Address's Great Blend events as a kind of "conscious party". So I'm stoked to announce the Orcon Great Blend Christmas Party, next Friday December ... More >>
Public Address 24/11/09 - 'Celebrity justice'
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 1:00 pm | Public Address
The weighing in of John Key on the "prominent entertainer" case has certainly ramped up name suppression as an issue in the wake of the Law Commission report on the topic. But what exactly should we take from his observation that the fact he was told the ... More >>
Public Address 23/11/09 - The March for Democracy
Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:37 pm | Public Address
As David Farrar notes, when you end up spending $100 a head to get people along to your March for Democracy -- pulling 4000 marchers when you've publicly envisaged 50,000 -- it "can only be called a very disappointing turnout for the organisers". ... More >>
Public Address 20/11/09 - Please, be our guests
Friday, 20 November 2009, 4:40 pm | Public Address
We've told you it's happening, some of you have already bought the books, but here it is -- the omnibus round-up of Public Address Books launch detail. If you would like to help David Haywood celebrate the launch of The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual ... More >>
Public Address 19/11/09 - A turn-up for the books
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 12:07 pm | Public Address
Witi Ihimaera, after being awarded an Arts Laureate, has offered to buy back the warehouse stock of The Trowenna Sea, and Penguin is offering to purchase remaining bookshop stocks of the novel. So is this what they mean when they say "pulp fiction"? ... More >>
Public Address 17/11/09 - Truth to Power
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 12:38 pm | Public Address
You may have seen Cactus Kate's self-proclaimed "humdinger of a story" claiming that APN has issued new "guidelines from Sydney" to its editors, which are "all to do with NO budget allocated for legal action or defence so the editors have basically ... More >>
Public Address 16/11/09 - Deprived of speech
Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:58 pm | Public Address
I still have the June 11 texts on my phone. The first was blunt and alarming: "Chris Knox has had a stroke," and then later, " … prognosis not good". What has happened since has been a story of trauma and love and friendship and, now, a remarkable recording ... More >>
Public Address 13/11/09 - Don't sell us down
Friday, 13 November 2009, 4:10 pm | Public Address
It's tempting to see the confrontation between the entertainment industry and the Internet as some kind of moral issue; a clash of the heavyweights with only one possible outcome: a triumph of good over evil. In the red corner we have the people who bring ... More >>
Public Address 12/11/09 - Ihimaera
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 1:05 pm | Public Address
Mistakes were made, and apologies have been tendered. So what now? In the NZ Herald article rather impertinently headlined "How Witi Was Found Out," Geoff Walker of Penguin Books says, of The Trowenna Sea, "It deserves to be read and it's a terrible ... More >>
Public Address 11/11/09 - All Apologies
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 11:43 am | Public Address
All Apologies | Nov 11, 2009 09:11 Graham Reid's many things An apology means nothing if you do it on Facebook or You Tube. Or Twitter or e-mail or txt. Or a talk show. An apology by an actor who cries probably doesn't mean much. These people are actors, ... More >>
Public Address 06/11/09 - 20 Years Ago Tomorrow ..
Sunday, 8 November 2009, 2:01 pm | Public Address
Twenty years ago tomorrow, the Communist government of East Germany resigned. Two days later, the checkpoints in the Berlin Wall were opened, and East German citizens were allowed to pass freely to the West for the first time in decades. Within a fortnight, ... More >>
Public Address 06/11/09: Ihimaera Novel
Sunday, 8 November 2009, 1:37 pm | Public Address
I haven't written for a while. My father died in August, and all my pretty words flew away. Actually, if only they had. Instead, they swooped and soared in my brain, coalescing into ominous shapes. They landed in musical lines on telephone wires, ... More >>
Public Address 05/11/09 - Fiji Baby
Saturday, 7 November 2009, 5:04 pm | Public Address
I'm not telling Foreign Affairs how to do their job, but having spent today being blown around Wellington in increasingly deteriorating conditions, I can only imagine how the conversation must have gone yesterday: MFAT: I'm sorry, you have to leave ... More >>
Public Address 4/11/09 - Stop! In The Name Of Love
Saturday, 7 November 2009, 4:27 pm | Public Address
Just a quick note to say that in this week's Media7 show we're looking at the media and body image. It's been a hot topic across the Tasman, where Australia's Next Top Model host Sarah Murdoch appeared on the cover of the Australian Women's Weekly without ... More >>
Public Address 03/11/09 - Right This Time?
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 11:38 am | Public Address
Someone in the loop ticked me off yesterday for an unduly flip assessment of reform prospects for foreshore and seabed rights, based on the Maori Party's strike rate so far. Well, fair enough: I do want a lasting solution, and I believe that such ... More >>
Public Address 02/11/09 - Dear John
Monday, 2 November 2009, 11:18 pm | Public Address
You had to hand it to John Key, said my colleague over dinner last week: he's very good. But some of the people around him, "not so much". I couldn't disagree-- the sometimes inarticulate and politically unworldly Leader of the Opposition has offered ... More >>
