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Public Address 10/09/09 - Dead Elephant Frenzy
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 2:54 pm | Public Address
Dead Elephant Frenzy | Sep 01, 2009 10:05 Russell Brown's Hard News I just sat through a Digipoll survey on business telecommunications services being conducted for, I'm fairly sure, Telecom. It was a struggle. But these things always are. You're told ... More >>
Public Address 31/08/09 - This Time It's Surgical
Monday, 31 August 2009, 2:02 pm | Public Address
So it turns out that Adric can't stay in the Tardis. It's Earthshock time. He's been poking his little tendrils in where they don't belong and generally mucking things up, and he's got to go. Seeing my brain scan images was fascinating. My nose is big ... More >>
Public Address 26/08/09
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 1:16 pm | Public Address
In Tauranga, my Mum was yelling | Aug 25, 2009 13:08 Hadyn Green yells. A lot. You know it's a bad game when even Irene van Dyk isn't smiling. The Silver Ferns were completely outplayed last night by a team that has a week of preparation, and whose ... More >>
Public Address 21/08/09 - Home, Straight
Friday, 21 August 2009, 12:24 pm | Public Address
Roadside drug testing is likely to be a reality sooner or later – and that means there will be public-service TV commercials created to warn would-be drugged drivers of the legal, moral and physical consequences of getting behind the wheel. But how ... More >>
Public Address 20/08/09 - KidsCan comes back
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:56 am | Public Address
In response to questions raised on Public Address and in the mainstream media about the costs incurred by KidsCan Charitable Trust -- and, consequently, the proportion of donations actually spent on its programmes -- trust chair Rick Shera undertook ... More >>
Public Address 19/08/09 - Up Front Parenting Guide
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 2:31 pm | Public Address
Earlier this week I was reading the Parents' Guide to Getting your Child into University, and while what it says is excellent, I think it's missing a vital step. Basically, with universities restricting entry to more courses, it's getting much more difficult ... More >>
Public Address 18/08/09 - Let Us Spray
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 2:28 pm | Public Address
Let Us Spray: The Aftermath | Aug 18, 2009 09:38 Russell Brown's Hard News Depending on where you're standing, TV3's 2006 documentary special, Let Us Spray, is either a textbook journalistic investigation that richly deserved its Qantas Award -- or ... More >>
Public Address 17/08/09 - A voice of reason
Monday, 17 August 2009, 5:15 pm | Public Address
I'll do John Key the credit of assuming he knew he wasn't just buying the name when he appointed Professor Peter Gluckman as his Chief Science Advisor recently. Because Gluckman hasn't wasted any time in indicating that his advice will be frank, independent ... More >>
Public Address 14/08/09 - What For Queen's Wharf?
Friday, 14 August 2009, 11:05 am | Public Address
Here are three lessons you learn the hard way in Auckland: 1. No matter how sunny it is right now, it will start to rain on your party ten minutes after you move everyone outside. 2. The cost of your building project will be double. Whatever they told ... More >>
Public Address 10/08/09 - A Real Alternative
Monday, 10 August 2009, 4:29 pm | Public Address
The belief that alternative education -- the so-called school system of last resort -- is the next education sector facing a funding cut is borne out by a story in this morning's Press, Drug use by at-risk teens causes alarm. The story claims that: Many ... More >>
Public Address 04/08/09 - Rockin' the Casbah?
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 4:57 pm | Public Address
This week's Media7 is a little bit country -- as in, a foreign one -- and a little bit rock'n' roll. The first part of the show will be devoted to the way our military participation in Afghanistan is being covered in the media. The New Zealand Herald's ... More >>
Public Address 03/08/09 - There is no alternative
Monday, 3 August 2009, 4:13 pm | Public Address
A bold $150 million plan to keep all New Zealand under 18 year-olds in school, or in training … the idea sounds oddly familiar. Ah yes. Helen Clark announced it as Labour Party policy 18 months ago. To be fair, elements of the youth employment ... More >>
Public Address 29/07/09 - Good on ya, Paula
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 12:26 pm | Public Address
The Polaroid of John Key's Cabinet is beginning to colour up now. The vague blobs take solid form to reveal….the 10.00 am Monday meeting at your office. Can-Do men and women who love their bullet points. So far, no David Brent; but there are moments ... More >>
Public Address 28/07/09 - Nick Smith Spanking Now
Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 9:59 am | Public Address
On Q&A on Sunday, Nick Smith claimed that Greenpeace's campaign for a 40% emissions reduction was unaffordable, and cited a report showing that it would have "a cost of about $15 billion per year at 2020", or $60 per person per week. This is catastrophically ... More >>
Public Address 23/07/09 - Clayton Weatherston
Friday, 24 July 2009, 3:48 pm | Public Address
On this morning's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan spoke with head sports reporter for the Sunday Times of London, David Walsh, on his assertion that professional sport is destroying the things we hold dear about sport itself. Walsh has written books ... More >>
Public Address 22/07/09 - On Ideas
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:15 pm | Public Address
For all that it stretches the imagination to suppose that a productivity task force appointed by Rodney Hide and Don Brash will be stocked with independent and open minds, I suspect that will need to be the case if the latest addition to Hide's menagerie ... More >>
Public Address 21/07/09 - Any Port in a Storm
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 3:17 pm | Public Address
Imagine you're a woman. This will be easier for some of you than others, obviously. Enjoy the easy, it's about to get harder. You're widowed, and you've been on your own with your kids for a long time when you meet a man. He's charming and funny. ... More >>
Public Address 20/07/09 - A New Hope
Monday, 20 July 2009, 12:43 pm | Public Address
The National Business Review's publisher said it was "moving into a new phase of electronic publishing". No, I'm not referring to Barry Colman's letter last week announcing the NBR' website's embarking on "The Great New Journalism Adventure" -- ... More >>
Public Address 17/07/09 - The End of Consumerism
Friday, 17 July 2009, 11:36 am | Public Address
Someone else has covered off the death of consumerism today. This leaves me free to talk about chocolate. I really like chocolate. I do not like big-bar commercial chocolate, so Cadbury's recent decision to make its chocolate even worse (and even ... More >>
Public Address 15/07/09 - score some Vogels...
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 1:40 pm | Public Address
The government wants to put acid in our food? Party Central! But wait, what's this? The Prime Minister gets wind of it on the TV news. He immediately seeks the advice of experts. His Chief Press Secretary. Katherine Rich. He airily tells us that laws ... More >>
