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Public Address 18/05/09 - Put on the full armour
Monday, 18 May 2009, 1:06 pm | Public Address
The most arresting part of Robert Draper's story for GQ magazine on the Rumsfeld years concerns the styling of the confidential briefings with which Donald Rumsfeld kept his President up to date on Iraq. It's both hilarious and alarming. These documents ... More >>
Public Address 15/05/09 - Some Week!
Friday, 15 May 2009, 4:16 pm | Public Address
I don't think I've appreciated any voice this week more than that of Joshua Arbury, keeper of the Auckland Transport Blog. He has provided an informed and useful perspective on the Waterview motorway issue, both on his own account and in discussion here and ... More >>
Public Address 13/05/09 - That Buzzing Sound
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 11:40 am | Public Address
My dander is up, but it would clearly be prudent to wait to see the promised new plan for the Waterview Connection before pronouncing on that. So just a quick note for Sean Plunket: sometimes governments massage financial numbers to make their ideas ... More >>
Public Address 12/05/09 - Gossip, tax cuts, comedy
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 3:37 pm | Public Address
Just a short post today, to let you know that this week's Media7 is a comedy special. We'll be talking to producers and practitioners and looking to find out where the laughs are at. Our first panel is: Paul Yates of Gibson Group, whose TV work includes ... More >>
Public Address 11/05/09 - That awful thing
Monday, 11 May 2009, 1:13 pm | Public Address
When that awful thing happens | May 11, 2009 07:46 Russell Brown's Hard News Radio was the "star" of media coverage of the siege in Napier, wrote Paul Holmes yesterday: "The frantic calls coming in to the talkback station in those first ... More >>
Public Address 07/05/09 - At the RWMC with Bollard
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 1:27 pm | Public Address
Slightly Awkward Encounters at the Supermarket, #352: you're scooting around getting dinner and cat food, and you think you'll grab a bottle of the Church Road chardonnay, because $13.99, whilst being more than $9.99, is still a pretty sharp price for that ... More >>
Public Address 04/05/09 - An Extension Of War
Monday, 4 May 2009, 11:44 am | Public Address
Having passed up on a comedy show, a memorial gig and yum cha with Keith Ng's gang in order to tend to a cold, I had plenty of time this weekend to play the game of finding the most absurd story in the Sunday papers. The Herald's on Sunday's lead... ... More >>
Public Address 28/04/09 - Telecom plays nice?
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 10:04 am | Public Address
Telecom seems to have decided that co-operation is the better part of valour in hitching itself to the government's grand fibre plan -- and, in the process, putting some meat on the bones of the idea. A statement released this morning commits Telecom ... More >>
Public Address 27/04/09 - There is History
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 9:36 am | Public Address
World War 1 ushered in an unprecedented wave of global mobility. And at its end, millions of people -- soldiers, refugees -- turned and headed for their homes. Some took with them a virulent strain of subtype H1N1 influenza, the same subtype as that ... More >>
Public Address 24/04/09 - Dear Prudence
Saturday, 25 April 2009, 10:54 am | Public Address
I'm not as scandalised by Bill English's speech this week about fiscal restraint as some others are, if only because it's a pleasant change to see the government advancing a theory that amounts to something beyond saying what people want to hear ... More >>
Public Address 20/04/09 - Lucinda made me cry
Monday, 20 April 2009, 12:16 pm | Public Address
You know how it is: you go through an intense, detailed week and you start to carry it around unresolved pieces of it in your head. Things you did, things you haven't done, things other people might do, images that don't fade. For the first two or ... More >>
Public Address 16/04/09 - Of Monsters And Old Boys
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 1:45 pm | Public Address
If it were true, as John Roughan declared on Saturday, that "state schooling is a nominally free, egalitarian service largely run by a fiercely unionised teaching profession for the protection of its members," which seeks only to maintain "its ... More >>
Public Address 17/04/09 - Veitch
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 1:42 pm | Public Address
For a man desperate not to be seen as a bully, Tony Veitch cut an unfortunate figure yesterday. Having been granted a chance to plead guilty to a single charge, he could simply have drawn a line under an awful incident; expressed a real and final regret ... More >>
Public Address 14/04/09 - The New World Order
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 7:19 am | Public Address
We're having some drinks. In association with our Great Blend sponsors, Orcon and the Quadrant Hotel, allow me to invite you as readers, fellow bloggers and interested parties to join us at the Quadrant Bar from 5.30pm on Thursday for the PA Social. More >>
Public Address 09/04/09 - For Good Friday
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 2:10 pm | Public Address
I hold irrational beliefs. I think food tastes better if it's cooked with love, when reason would dictate that a heartless sonuvab*tch with great technical skill would make a better meal. I get my back fixed up by an osteopath, when I know that osteopathy's ... More >>
Public Address 08/04/09 - Regarding Auckland
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 11:31 am | Public Address
Discussion: Regarding Auckland Posted at 11:07AM on 8 Apr 09 With a clutch of hostile mayors, angry tangata whenua and a deadline of next year's local body elections, how will the making of a "super-city" fare? And for that matter -- how ... More >>
Public Address 07/04/09 - The Cullen investment
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 12:21 pm | Public Address
It had become apparent that Michael Cullen was looking for a change of job, and today we will discover which SOE he will chair. History will, I think, regard Cullen as a conservative finance minister who left the country's books in better shape than ... More >>
Public Address 03/04/09 - Official Information
Friday, 3 April 2009, 2:02 pm | Public Address
I'm very pleased with this week's Media7, which marks both our 50th show and our one-year anniversary. The first part of the show is an interview with Tim Pankhurst, the departing editor of the Dominion Post, which covers a fair bit of ground. And ... More >>
Public Address 01/04/09 - Quantum Faster
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 12:51 pm | Public Address
In June last year, in a presentation to the Telecommunications summit, undertook that, if elected, a National government would invest to ensure that 75% of New Zealand homes would enjoy connection to "ultra-fast" fibre-optic cable by 2014. The speech ... More >>
ublic Address 31/03/09 - All a-Twitter
Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 2:08 pm | Public Address
So far I've kept my face off Facebook. And I never did join Friendster, so no need to unfriendster myself. But my sister and I were iChatting the other day about our reluctance to join the twitter chorus - despite the fact that both our brothers are ... More >>
