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Public Address 31/01/08 - Think Of The Children
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 12:27 am | Public Address
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. At the very least don't give them earworm. More >>
Public Address 30/01/08 - Herself's Turn
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 2:16 pm | Public Address
Herself's Turn | Jan 30, 2008 11:02 Russell Brown's Hard News Labour's policy speeches in government are oddly like its policy speeches in Opposition in the 1990s: dense, detailed, not entirely lyrical. The difference, of course, is that the Prime Minister ... More >>
Public Address 29/01/08 - Tidbits Ahoy!
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 4:42 pm | Public Address
The reports on John Key's big policy tidbit seem confused. According to Colin Espiner, Key is "expected to announce that those not in work or further education and training and aged under 18 will no longer be eligible for any benefits from the taxpayer. More >>
PA 25/01/08 - All Your Copyright Are Belong To Us
Friday, 25 January 2008, 3:21 pm | Public Address
All your copyright are belong to us | Jan 25, 2008 10:24 Russell Brown's Hard News More >>
Public Address 24/1/8 - 08 Internet NZ: Where Now?
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:47 am | Public Address
Where is the New Zealand internet heading this year? Your hopes? Your fears? Will the blogosphere be a town square or a bearpit? Or will the media corporates take it over? Will you read Public Address more or less? Will your broadband get any better, ... More >>
Public Address 21-23/01/08 - Theories, Please ...
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 2:21 pm | Public Address
Theories, please, on why our plucky little bourse staged its recovery while those across the Tasman and around the world just kept diving yesterday? Does anyone else find the economic policy responses of not only the incumbent, but all the US presidential ... More >>
Public Address 17/01/08 - What's The Frequency?
Friday, 18 January 2008, 9:19 am | Public Address
Many people said fine things about the late Sir Ed while I was away from connectivity (apart from John Key, who said something vacuous), so I won't write at length, but simply observe that he embodied -- flawlessy, so far as I can tell -- many of things ... More >>
Public Address 16/01/08 - Castoffs Of Waiheke
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 11:45 am | Public Address
I like buying old books on the island. You'll sometimes find interesting inscriptions in the dust jacket: a poet's dedication to a friend, her book now discarded. More >>
Public Address 08/01/08 - About A Cat
Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 2:26 pm | Public Address
"Your problem, Colin, is that you think everything is for you," I said, as he nosed around amongst my evaporating single malt collection. "Then again, perhaps, so do we all ..." Colin is not a bad bloke. He's not a bloke at all. He's a cat. More >>
Public Address 03/01/08 - Things I Know
Friday, 4 January 2008, 6:50 am | Public Address
"In keeping with the season when people make resolutions they will probably never observe, I offer here my New Year's Resolutions -- which I will probably never observe. But it feels good to get them off my sun-tanned chest. I will watch to the bitter ... More >>
Public Address 31/12/07 - The Daily Embarrassment
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 9:17 am | Public Address
It's a measure of the New Zealand Herald's petty and spiteful state that it relegates the appointment of Don McKinnon to the place in the Order of New Zealand made vacant by the passing of the Maori Queen to page four of today's paper... More >>
Public Address 27/12/07 - Uniquely Refreshing
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 5:25 pm | Public Address
Christmas had an odd rhythm this year. The natural conclusion of 2007's business was Friday, and it seemed as if half the town was packing up and clearing out by the afternoon. I wrote and recorded a script for the Public Address Radio Xmas special. More >>
Public Address 21/12/07 - Rockin'!
Monday, 24 December 2007, 10:55 am | Public Address
Rockin' | Dec 21, 2007 10:34 Russell Brown's Hard News One News has a mobile phone video shot in what looks like a Pak 'n' Save minutes after last night's earthquake in Gisborne. As people pick through the debris wondering what the hell happened, ... More >>
Public Address 19/12/07 - Random
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 11:21 am | Public Address
I spent six hours in meetings yesterday, and I am not normally a meetings person. Worse, they were meetings in which I had to pay attention and contribute. I got home just in time to feed the kids, change my shirt and head off for drinks with, among ... More >>
Public Address 17/12/07 - Selling fast!
Monday, 17 December 2007, 3:51 pm | Public Address
The Best Country in the World: Selling fast! | Dec 17, 2007 10:49 Russell Brown's Hard News If you could spare a moment from teaching your kids to play cricket on the back lawn, smoking fish in the back yard of your rustic cottage, paying no capital ... More >>
Word the Year 2007: Te Qaeda
Monday, 17 December 2007, 10:33 am | Public Address
The ironic coinage "Te Qaeda" is the Public Address readers' Word of the Year for 2007. More >>
Public Address 13/12/07 - The spray
Friday, 14 December 2007, 11:47 am | Public Address
What to make of the spray | Dec 13, 2007 12:00 Russell Brown's Hard News The Ombudsman's report on complaints arising from the aerial spraying campaigns of 2002-2004 isn't quite the wholesale vindication being hailed by spray opponents -- it's much more ... More >>
Public Address 14/12/07 - Embarrassment Of Riches
Friday, 14 December 2007, 11:02 am | Public Address
What with being personally responsible for blogosphere diversity and the fate of The Left, as well as fangin' it on my new Broil King barbecue, I have rather carelessly neglected to try and sell you anything. Well, It's Business Time … Because it's ... More >>
Public Address 12/12/07 - What Emergency?
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 11:21 am | Public Address
Karachi: What Emergency? | Dec 12, 2007 03:28 Damian Christie - Cracker With Attitude Flying into Karachi, Pakistan, into an official State of Emergency, I didn't quite know what to expect. I was apprehensive to say the least. I had only applied for ... More >>
Public Address 10/12/07 - Denial
Monday, 10 December 2007, 1:48 pm | Public Address
Denial | Dec 10, 2007 11:21 Russell Brown's Hard News I've just listened to Willie Jackson's interview with Clint Rickards on Radio Waatea. I'm less shocked at what the subject had to say than what the interviewer said. "Phil Kitchens (sic) ... More >>
