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Public Address 11/09/08 - Conscious Party
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 5:41 pm | Public Address
It is unusual that the mere viewing television should detain Helen Clark, but that was surely the cause of three successive delays in her arrival at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards last night. She was watching her foreign minister bid for his political ... More >>
Public Address 10/09/08 - Need to Know
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 4:53 pm | Public Address
Amid the courtroom drama of the yesterday's privileges committee hearing, and the subsequent explorations of Owen Glenn's hurt feelings, No Right Turn usefully points out what is actually at stake: unless Winston Peters can convincingly rebut the evidence ... More >>
Public Address 09/09/08 - A plot point is reached
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 12:45 am | Public Address
I've been struggling as much as the next guy to stay with the sprawling Winston Peters scandal (I think, with three different investigations in motion, it can fairly be called that), but clearly, with Owen Glenn jet-setting in address the select committee ... More >>
Public Address 08/09/08 - Weekend Warriors
Monday, 8 September 2008, 12:16 am | Public Address
In her Herald on Sunday column, Deborah Coddington essentially apologises for the hurt her notorious Asian Angst story caused: and then completely blows it by describing herself as having been subject to "the media equivalent of gang r*pe" by "sadists". ... More >>
Public Address 05/09/08 - With the art-hackers
Friday, 5 September 2008, 1:05 pm | Public Address
Leo and I went out to Purple Spheres this week. It's an event sponsored by Orcon, in which a group of eight art-hacker types spend a week in a house at Huia playing with and creating (as it mostly turned out) user interface hacks. I'm impressed to ... More >>
Public Address 04/09/08 - Out-of-control manchild
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 1:20 pm | Public Address
We were having fun with the internet adventures of Aaron Bhatnagar long before he became an Auckland City councillor. And readers will doubtless find droll amusement in Transmogrification, Bhatnagar's thrilling new series of autobiographical blog ... More >>
Public Address 03/09/09 - More Billboards!
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 11:50 am | Public Address
Auckland is not a city that cares much for cyclists. If you drive a black, shining SUV that looks - to the jaundiced eye - like some SS staff car, you may lumber about this sprawling city without let or hinderance. You may, at some future point, be ... More >>
Public Address 02/09/08 - That New Billboard
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 11:44 am | Public Address
Pick the person who doesn't have kids: one man returns from the concession stand with four punnets of chips, four hamburgers, four bags of fried donuts, pockets full of tomato sauce packets and a jacket stuffed with soft drink bottles. The other man ... More >>
Public Address 1/09/08 - Go Us
Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:54 am | Public Address
When you see a New York Times editorial headed Let's Hear It for New Zealand, you just have to find out what that's about. Has the Times joined the Conchords fan club? No. We're part of an "admirable band" of countries holding the line against American ... More >>
Public Address 29/08/08 - The Spiral of Events
Friday, 29 August 2008, 12:50 am | Public Address
I'm stuck for a metaphor for Sean Plunket's extraordinary, impromptu interview with Winston Peters this morning. I'm also very little the wiser as to the true nature of Peters' Byzantine financial affairs after hearing it. But I do feel secure in ... More >>
Public Address 28/08/08 - He lied to us all
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 11:40 am | Public Address
By all means, join the discussion being hosted by Mr Slack on the cloudy prospects for Winston Peters' future, but do feel free to pop over at some time and watch this week's Media7 programme on the magazine business. As noted in the Media7 blog, there... More >>
Public Address 27/08/08 - The Innocent Sleep
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 1:34 pm | Public Address
Sleep and I have never been great friends. We're more like hostile flatmates: we live in the same space, occasionally we co-operate, but no matter how hard we try, we can't get on. The DSPS is manageable, if hugely inconvenient. I didn't even know ... More >>
Public Address 26/08/08 - National Exuberance
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 1:34 pm | Public Address
Whether disingenuously or not, the Herald's editorial writer gets it wrong today in dismissing any idea that Maurice Williamson said that $50 in weekly road tolls would be "imposed" on motorists under a National government. "They would have a choice," ... More >>
Public Address 25/08/08 - Being Worked
Monday, 25 August 2008, 3:19 pm | Public Address
That's three weeks by my count. Three weeks of stories being placed with the Sunday newspapers by persons unknown, but -- at the least in the case of the last lot -- very likely to be playing for Team Tony Veitch. Because, frankly, there aren't many ... More >>
Public Address 22/08/08 - Just SO much goodness
Friday, 22 August 2008, 4:32 pm | Public Address
Ever since David Haywood wrote Summer of the L.E.D.s, that great little band from Christchurch has been a favourite around here. We're pleased to have been able to help them reach a few more ears. And I'm delighted to say that they're allowing us ... More >>
Public Address 21/08/08 - Trust. Us.
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 5:26 pm | Public Address
Stephen Judd raised an interesting idea yesterday in discussion of this week's Media7 programme on the demise of the 115 year-old Levin Daily Chronicle, after I commented thus … More >>
Public Address 20/08/08 - Rain on his parade
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 3:27 pm | Public Address
I have never met Steve Crow. I have no particular wish to do so. He strikes me as an unpleasant, cynical man with whom I would have little in common. His claim in court yesterday that his Boobs on Bikes parade was only "loosely connected" to his ... More >>
Public Address 19/08/08 - Tear down this wall
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 3:18 pm | Public Address
I gather the unprecedented freedom of content on the Listener website this week is not entirely intentional, but it does provide a happy opportunity to link to Jane Clifton's Politics column in a week in which she ventures on the blogosphere and ... More >>
Public Address 18/08/08 - A sleepless weekend
Monday, 18 August 2008, 4:13 pm | Public Address
It has been a long and sleepless weekend. A weekend of tremendous feats, where black became gold and inspiration was only a gnat's whisker away. The kiwis have dug deep and showed the entire world that we are indeed a sleeping giant. They come from a ... More >>
Public Address 14/08/08 - Handle the Scandal
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 1:59 pm | Public Address
Olympic Scandal! The Olympics are a hoax! Oh my God, the calamity. CALAMITY! First the fireworks display of the giant runner's footsteps were fake (well actually they weren't, the footage was faked because the organisers were a bit worried/embarrassed ... More >>
