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Public Address 16/10/08 - The Looking Glass
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 2:31 pm | Public Address
"In just seven years' time, they'll have enough money to buy every share in every public company in New Zealand. Soon, they could buy all the farm. Indeed, one day the government could wind up owning literally everything. And you know what that's ... More >>
Public Address 14/10/08 - Inimical
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 12:51 am | Public Address
At the end of the recent TVNZ 7 Internet debate, I concluded the discussion by thanking all of the MPs present for their support of important initiatives in e-government. We tend to take for granted the transparency of government, the improved access to ... More >>
Public Address 13/10/08 - The Odds
Monday, 13 October 2008, 6:37 pm | Public Address
The odds, and the simply odd | Oct 13, 2008 12:19 Russell Brown's Hard News I've been telling anyone who asks that National is 75-25 odds on to form a government. I think it's evident that those odds shifted Labour's way on Friday: it's just not ... More >>
Public Address 10/10/08 - Rationalisation at hand!
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:51 am | Public Address
For students of the form, the New Zealand Herald's editorial column has been extraordinary reading this week. It has writhed between denial and acceptance, faith and loss. Metaphorically, it has been conceived in a lonely hotel room under an accusing n*ked ... More >>
Public Address 08/10/08 - Have you met thingy?
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 1:30 pm | Public Address
I am naturally sociable and at ease in conversation with strangers. People regard me as confident and articulate. But I also have trouble with names and faces; both remembering and associating them. I will often fail to retain the name of someone ... More >>
Public Address 07/10/08 - Helen: Dial O for Obama
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 4:32 pm | Public Address
I installed the Obama '08 iPhone app. It's amazing. Obviously, it didn't find any swing-state friends in my contacts book, and the GPS component couldn't find me an Obama campaign office nearby, but I can read daily news updates from the campaign, ... More >>
Public Address 06/10/08 - Citizens and Geniuses
Monday, 6 October 2008, 1:40 pm | Public Address
It takes no particular genius to tell that law-and-order will play its traditional role in the election campaign. National will come out today with a somewhat reined-in version of the no-parole-for-repeat-violent-offenders policy it took into the last ... More >>
Public Address 03/10/08 - Joke that went too far
Friday, 3 October 2008, 4:34 pm | Public Address
A few people will be aware of allegations that a Labour MP committed a s*xual assault that was covered up by police. It's not true. Indeed, the whole thing was a hoax. So far as I can tell, it happened this way: the person responsible, posing as the ... More >>
Public Address 02/10/08 - No Soup for You
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 3:42 pm | Public Address
Let us deal with all the cliches in one groaning paragraph. All this doom and gloom is impacting negatively on investor intentions, but not mine; I am a glass-half-full kind of person and when life hands me lemons I make lemonade. Let's start shovelling ... More >>
Public Address 01/10/08 - Memory Food
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 12:15 am | Public Address
I'm off to Italy with my oldest son, Joseph, who turned seven last week. He has been there before but this is the trip that I have some expectation he'll remember, so we'll try to do the odd extra-special memorable thing - two days in Venice ought ... More >>
Public Address 30/09/08 - Heroes and Villains
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 1:16 pm | Public Address
As the balance of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill continues to shift, it seems that we still need to talk about copyright itself, from first principles. What is its purpose? How is it broken? What would you fix? Post your case here … More >>
Public Address 29/09/08 - The Debate and Onwards
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:56 am | Public Address
To be honest, I thought McCain was the better debater. He was more aggressive, more obviously scored points and occasionally disabled his opponent. On the other hand, Obama was the grown-up in the room -- he engaged with the moderator Jim Lehrer, and ... More >>
Public Address 25/09/08 - Catching up!
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:37 pm | Public Address
The failure of the Labour members of the privileges committee to find with the multi-party majority that Winston Peters had provided "false or misleading information on a return of pecuniary interests" was pathetic, and they know it. They will presumably privately ... More >>
Public Address 22/09/08 - Owning Words
Monday, 22 September 2008, 11:38 am | Public Address
Stephen Franks is having a major hissy fit at the moment, over Agenda screening a clip from a Wellington Central candidates' meeting in a Te Aro house that he seems to regard as part of some sort of conspiracy against him. You might have seen the... More >>
Public Address 19/09/08 - Fun as banking collapses
Friday, 19 September 2008, 2:57 pm | Public Address
I was going to upload that "How the Subprime Crisis Really Works' Powerpoint file that's been viralling around, but someone's done the helpful thing and stuck it up on Google Docs so it can be viewed in a browser. It does contain strong language, ... More >>
Public Address 18/09/08 - The TVNZ 7 Internet Deba
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 3:27 pm | Public Address
You may have noticed that I'm participating in the TVNZ 7 Internet debate, which will air (and stream) live from Avalon next Tuesday evening from 9pm in association with Internet NZ. The first hour will be on TV and then it'll carry on online-only. ... More >>
Public Address 17/09/08 - Stories for Change
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 2:03 pm | Public Address
Telling Stories for Change | Sep 17, 2008 11:15 Russell Brown's Hard News I was a little nervous ahead of my presentation to the Autism New Zealand conference on Saturday. I wasn't sure who the audience would be or what they'd want, and it took ... More >>
Public Address 16/09/08 - Crash and Contempt
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 1:21 pm | Public Address
The yardstick that brought home to me the magnitude of the Lehman Brothers collapse was actually contained in the August Vanity Fair story about the failure of another investment bank, Bear Stearns. In Bryan Burrough's story, Lehman is the potential ... More >>
Public Address 15/08/08 - Waiting For Roddo
Monday, 15 September 2008, 1:44 pm | Public Address
As you read here last week, Vodafone New Zealand has today launched MusicStation, the music subscription service debuted last year by Vodafone UK. The platform was created by a company called Omnifone. I've tried the service, and it works. It works ... More >>
Public Address 12/09/08 - Now It's On
Friday, 12 September 2008, 7:03 pm | Public Address
Now It's On | Sep 12, 2008 12:55 Russell Brown's Hard News The general election will, as widely predicted, be held on November 8. And in Helen Clark's announcement of that fact we got a pretty clear look at the message Labour will take to the voters. ... More >>
