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Public Address 09/05/08 - We won the NetGuide!
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 4:57 pm | Public Address
Public Address won the NetGuide People's Choice Award for "Best Blog" last night. Many of you will realise that it isn't the first time this has happened, but it's still nice to be recognised in a public vote. I had been studiously laid-back about ... More >>
Public Address 08/05/08 - Birthday Cheer for Ricky
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:34 pm | Public Address
Birthday Cheer for Ricky the Special-Needs Monkey | May 08, 2008 10:11 Russell Brown's Hard News One of the more straightforward reasons to distrust groups touting climate change "scepticism" is, quite simply, the way in which those groups conduct ... More >>
Public Address 07/05/08 - The force is strong...
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 12:02 am | Public Address
The force is strong with this one | May 07, 2008 10:27 Russell Brown's Hard News Having autism in the family means living with, and learning to love, irreducible difference. But that doesn't mean you can't all share the joy of certain things. ... More >>
Public Address 06/05/08 - Seoul Searchin'
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 1:18 pm | Public Address
With a good Metro system and useful street signage (aside from not naming streets), Seoul is an easy city to get your way around in -- but more fun when you get lost. That's easy to do too, just come out of a Metro on the wrong exit and walk... More >>
Public Address 05/05/08 - Track to the Future
Monday, 5 May 2008, 1:08 pm | Public Address
When I'm in a disparaging mood, I describe Takapuna as Hamilton-on-Sea. Henderson is Hamilton-on-P. No disrespect to the fine people who live there, but Hamilton's a bit dull for me. Said the boy from Feilding. Imagine, then, our excitement a year ... More >>
Public Address 02/05/08 - LSD, Rugby & Nationalism
Friday, 2 May 2008, 12:56 am | Public Address
I suppose it's a bit importune to be remembering Albert Hofmann, the "father of LSD", who passed away at the age of 102 this week, given today's headlines, but what the hell. I think I'm being honest in saying that LSD never did me... More >>
Public Address 30/04/08 - Christie in Pakistan
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 8:33 pm | Public Address
ACT I: The curtain opens to show the tea rooms of a railway station in Milford, England. The year is 1936. Ian, a failed journalist, and Laura, a middle-class housewife, are sitting together at a table. Teacups are set upon the table, but no-one is drinking. ... More >>
Public Address 29/04/08 - Things to Do
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 1:04 pm | Public Address
It's quite clever on the part of Residents Action Movement to have latched onto the removal of GST from food products as part of its move to launch on the national stage. But the idea itself is completely daft … http://publicaddress.net/default,4963.sm More >>
Public Address 28/04/08 - Shihad like All Blacks
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:28 am | Public Address
PA Radio: Resisting the Resistance Posted at 8:28AM on 28 Apr 08 Craig Ranapia declares himself a conscientious objector when it comes to Kiwibank's war-themed ad campaign. More >>
Public Address 24/04/08 - Comedy, Opera & Pubs
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 11:33 am | Public Address
I'm very pleased with this week's Media7, in which the panel discussion focuses on the news media's handling of the Mangatepopo canyoning tragedy, which seems likely to become a case study because the of Elim Christian School's extraordinary openness ... More >>
Public Address 22/04/08 - Campbell comes back
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 12:19 am | Public Address
Campbell comes back | Apr 22, 2008 11:20 Russell Brown's Hard News Our friends at Scoop have announced their Election 08 section, which will be edited (and largely written) by Gordon Campbell. I think this is a great development, and one likely ... More >>
Public Address 21/04/08 - Not all victims equal
Monday, 21 April 2008, 11:49 am | Public Address
I'm not surprised that audience members walked out during Annette King's speech to the Sensible Sentencing Trust's conference. Not that I think there was anything wrong with the speech itself -- but telling a hall full of people gathered around their ... More >>
Public Address 18/04/08 - Conditioning & Learning
Friday, 18 April 2008, 10:43 am | Public Address
Some things I've been meaning to link to | Apr 18, 2008 09:56 Russell Brown's Hard News Amid the recent flurry of commentary about China, I particularly enjoyed a couple of vivid and thoughtful posts by Simon Grigg about a week in China, the first "from ... More >>
Public Address 17/04/08 - A Very Good Cause
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 2:03 pm | Public Address
I only realised much later that I had been warned, as a child, of Stranger Danger. It was at our cubs group in the Kimbolton Hall. If a man offers you some sweets to get in his car, tell him no, they said. I was skeptical. This was so completely... ... More >>
Public Address 17/04/08 - Hot Media
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 12:23 am | Public Address
Hot Media | Apr 17, 2008 10:18 Russell Brown's Hard News Hot Topic has a fairly extraordinary story this morning, about the circumstances of the departure of Ecologic columnist Dave Hansford from The Listener in the wake of what seems to have been ... More >>
Public Address 16/04/08 - Timewarp with Winston
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 2:02 pm | Public Address
PA Radio: Doing the Timewarp with Winston Posted at 10:42AM on 16 Apr 08 Craig Ranapia wonders why, after 30 years, anyone is still prepared to dance with Winston Peters ... More >>
Public Address 15/04/08 - Campaigns
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 8:01 am | Public Address
Public Address 15/04/08 - What I've done with Julie Christie is my own busines More >>
Public Address 14/04/08 - Politics and Elsewhere
Monday, 14 April 2008, 11:37 am | Public Address
Audrey Young has herself a good scoop in the Herald this morning: in a conference workshop addressed on Saturday by Labour Party president, "delegates were advised to distribute pamphlets on KiwiSaver produced by the Inland Revenue Department and ... More >>
Public Address 11/04/08 - Intellectual Properties
Friday, 11 April 2008, 2:58 pm | Public Address
Intellectual Properties | Apr 11, 2008 11:18 Russell Brown's Hard News Ars Technica has a story on our new copyright law that makes very interesting reading. It underlines the point I made earlier in the week that it could have been worse: "Canadian ... More >>
Public Address 10/04/08 - Speaking freely
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 11:50 am | Public Address
Speaking freely | Apr 10, 2008 11:25 Russell Brown's Hard News It's not every day you get "bullsh**" into a front-page headline in the Herald, is it? The editors seem to have backed off a bit and changed the headline in the course of the ... More >>
