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Public Address 09/06/08 - Breaking up the Band
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:06 am | Public Address
Breaking up the Band | Jun 09, 2008 11:59 Russell Brown's Hard News It surely takes something special to make a biography about another person as rampantly self-serving as Michael Bassett's new book about David Lange seems to be. The book is likely to ... More >>
Public Address 06/06/08 - Songs in the Life of Key
Monday, 9 June 2008, 3:34 pm | Public Address
My contact with the work of Bill Sutch is essentially limited to seeing his books on the shelves of Wellington's second-hand bookshops. Most often, the book will be The Quest for Security in New Zealand it sold 100,000 copies after its first publication ... More >>
Public Address 05/06/08 - Debating Clydesdale
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 1:03 pm | Public Address
This week's Media7 focuses on the commotion around the 'Growing Pains' paper by Massey economist Greg Clydesdale, since it was deemed front-page news by the Dominion Post. I was joined on the show by Dom Post editor Tim Pankhurst, One News' Barbara Dreaver, ... More >>
Public Address 04/06/08 - Don Paul
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 11:54 am | Public Address
It seems faint praise to say that Ruth Laugesen's interview with Don Brash for the Sunday Star Times was fascinating. It captures a man who seems honest and vulnerable, unreconstructed and ideologically extreme. He'd have been a disaster as Prime Minister. ... More >>
Public Address 03/05/08 - Bandwagon Hobos
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 6:14 pm | Public Address
Trumping the Herald's "28% price rise", Jeanette Fitzsimons has taken whinge-mongering to new heights with her claim that there has been 60% rise in the price of milk (and that Fonterra and the supermarkets are to blame). It's not true. It's really, really ... More >>
Public Address 30/05/08 - Friday Fun
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:38 pm | Public Address
I am not without regard for Rupert Murdoch. Capitalism rewards risk, and Murdoch has, at various times, taken huge risks (albeit with others' money) and reaped the rewards. He is also pragmatic when he needs to be: witness his interview with Reuters ... More >>
Public Address 29/05/08 - Too Good to Be True
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 11:30 am | Public Address
If a private consultant in most fields of medicine or social study was to emerge and start firing out press releases declaring that the experts were wrong and he had the fix for decades-old problems, you'd normally expect him to be treated with ... More >>
Public Address 28/05/08 - An editor's salary cure
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 1:30 pm | Public Address
Public Address 28/05/08 - How many children with cancer would an editor's salary cure? More >>
Public Address 27/05/08 - Ice-cold rabble rousing
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 12:34 am | Public Address
Ron Mark! Brilliant! The organisers of Youth Week stage Hoodie Day to try and break down negative stereotypes about the popular and practical garment. And Ron wades in to declare that the organisers are "promoting black American gang culture", because ... More >>
Public Address 26/05/08 - Gassed Up
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 12:14 am | Public Address
Congratulations, then Scott Dixon Winner of the Indy 500 and hugely talented New Zealander. This makes your name the most illustrious in a list that was already awesome: Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren, Burt Munro, Helen Clark. Churlish types might quibble ... More >>
Public Address 23/05/08 - The Budget of Mothers
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 7:11 pm | Public Address
Three and half billion dollars is the limit of my comfort zone, declared Michael Cullen. A hundred million here, 200 million there. Before you know it, you're talking about unreal money. Sometimes it helps to take the Geoff Robinson approach to complex ... More >>
Public Address 22/05/08 - Ways to Go
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 11:34 am | Public Address
Recently we got an official letter from the Canterbury District Health Board, telling us that under no circumstances was my son to become a train driver. Now, apart from the fact that my son hasn't shown the slightest interest in trains since he outgrew ... More >>
Public Address 21/05/08 - The Secret Code
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 1:28 pm | Public Address
Public Address 21/05/08 - The Secret Code The Secret Code | May 21, 2008 10:17 Russell Brown's Hard News One of the more entrenched prohibitions in politics is that against uttering the bleeding obvious. When Phil Goff granted last night on Alt TV that there ... More >>
Public Address 20/05/08 - Shooting for the Moon
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 12:41 am | Public Address
I happened to talk to Someone In A Good Position to Know yesterday about the cost and scale of National's plan to bring fibreoptic cable to 75% of New Zealand homes within three five years of work commencing. The answer was not equivocal: at least ... More >>
Public Address 19/05/08 - Sunday's Perfect Storm
Monday, 19 May 2008, 11:55 am | Public Address
The sad thing about the Herald on Sunday's lead story yesterday is that everyone involved with it on an editorial level knows its premise is b*******. That is to say, they know very well that the "secret Auckland house" to which Bailey Kurariki ... More >>
Public Address 16/05/08 - In tha Hoodie
Friday, 16 May 2008, 2:33 pm | Public Address
In tha Hoodie | May 16, 2008 11:23 Russell Brown's Hard News A few of us at Public Address will be wearing hoodies for Hoodie Day, Friday May 30, which is one of the events for Youth Week, May 26 to June 1. The choice of garment isn't accidental: ... More >>
Public Address 14/05/08 - Beibei Jingjing
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 9:08 am | Public Address
Air New Zealand is equipping 18 of its planes with some cool new media kit, according to The Register. El Reg makes much of the fact that the Panasonic X Series in-flight entertainment system includes an iPod dock, but there seems to be much more to... More >>
Public Address 15/05/08 - Bean-Counting the Beat
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:31 am | Public Address
This week's Media7 looks at the debate around the sometimes uneasy blend of culture and commerce that is the local music funding structure. There can be no doubt that the local industry is more skilled and more productive than it was a decade ago, ... More >>
Public Address 13/05/08 - My First Stabbing
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:34 pm | Public Address
One form of TV you can reliably assume will deliver less than it promises is the clips countdown. Well, usually. But I watched Karyn Hay's Rock the Nation: 100 New Zealand Music Moments on C4 last night -- and it's good! The show is smart, it told ... More >>
Public Address 12/05/08 - Stuff (in) the papers
Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:49 am | Public Address
I'm a Pakeha and you can stick your war | May 12, 2008 11:18 Russell Brown's Hard News For some reason, Michael Law's latest column, A Pakeha Fights Back, is among the editors' picks on Stuff this morning. Feel free to read it, but you've read it ... More >>
