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Public Address 07/12/07 - Mighty Indeed
Monday, 10 December 2007, 10:58 am | Public Address
Mighty Indeed | Dec 07, 2007 09:09 Russell Brown's Hard News Who says Wellingtonians aren't a forgiving people? Mere months after his story for Metro magazine on the challenges of life the capital, Damian Christie has been welcomed to the fold: voters ... More >>
Public Address 06/12/07 - Bai Bai
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 10:21 am | Public Address
Bai bai | Dec 05, 2007 13:26 Reversing the invasion with Tze Ming Mok After nearly three years of being the exotic dancing girl of Public Address, it's time for me to retreat behind the curtains of the champagne room. These Canto-peasant feet weren't ... More >>
Public Address 05/12/07 - The Clamour to Cringe
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 2:09 pm | Public Address
The Clamour to Cringe | Dec 05, 2007 09:51 Russell Brown's Hard News We recently discussed here the international PISA rankings for educational attainment. Well, the new PISA survey is out and one would hope that it might at least briefly quell ... More >>
Public Address 04/12/07 - Farce About
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 12:09 am | Public Address
Farce About | Dec 04, 2007 10:41 Russell Brown's Hard News I'm not surprised the anti-Electoral Finance Bill march got a decent crowd in Auckland on Saturday: given the advertising spend, the assistance of such experienced headline-farmers as the ... More >>
Public Address 03/12/07 - Making A List
Monday, 3 December 2007, 10:17 am | Public Address
Such is the bounty this morning that I don't think I need to post on PA. But you might be interested in the post I've just made on our autism and Asperger site, humans.org.nz. It's about Owen Walker, the 18 year-old Aspie in Whitianga who is in a world of trouble ... More >>
Public Address 30/11/07 - Flicking the Xmas Switch
Monday, 3 December 2007, 9:58 am | Public Address
Somebody flicked the Christmas Switch | Nov 30, 2007 11:07 Russell Brown's Hard News The bakery is festooned with messages wishing me season's greetings in a dozen languages. Outside the butcher's shop, a metre-high mechanised Santa sings something ... More >>
Public Address 28/11/07 - Ambition
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 9:58 am | Public Address
Ambition | Nov 28, 2007 10:30 Russell Brown's Hard News David Cunliffe is ambitious. Whether consciously or not, he has begun to emulate the distinctive phrasing of David Lange when he gives a big speech. And today's speech at the Digital Summit was a ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 28/11/07 - Ambition
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 3:56 pm | Public Address
David Cunliffe is ambitious. Whether consciously or not, he has begun to emulate the distinctive phrasing of David Lange when he gives a big speech. And today's speech at the Digital Summit was a big one. The topic was too ridden with jargon and acronym ... More >>
Public Address 27/11/07 - It's In The Wild
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:09 am | Public Address
I have a copy of the 156-page police affidavit excerpted by the Dominion Post as "The Terrorism Files". Handwritten notes on the scanned pages and the nature of the US-based site hosting the PDF document both strongly suggest that it has not been ... More >>
Public Address 26/11/07 - Back To The Mainstream
Monday, 26 November 2007, 11:43 am | Public Address
Australia's last two Labor Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, were raging personalities: brash, passionate, prone to controversy and somehow embodying national character. I don't think there's much chance of that with the new guy. Now, after ... More >>
Public Address 23/11/07 - Maoriland Calling
Friday, 23 November 2007, 3:25 pm | Public Address
Something a bit lovely turned up on the nets this week: 30 of the novels of Maoriland. These 19th century works, the first written fiction of and about New Zealand, were largely ignored by our cultural nationalists last century -- didn't fit with the ... More >>
Public Address 21/11/07 - Twilight Legislating
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 12:49 am | Public Address
Because that's how I roll | Nov 21, 2007 11:04 Russell Brown's Hard News I was musing to someone this morning that, for reasons unclear, I appear to have jumped PR lists. I'm getting a different grade of invitation now, and the couriers beating a path ... More >>
Public Address 20/11/07 - Looking For Monsters
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 11:55 am | Public Address
I'm sure Annette King was speaking in good faith when she said that the Electoral Finance Bill would be amended to remove what amounts to a new ban on advocating through a megaphone. I don't think the select committee majority really meant to do this ... More >>
Public Address 15/11/07 - Spammer until proven
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:32 am | Public Address
Spammer until proven innocent | Nov 15, 2007 08:53 Russell Brown's Hard News My column in the current Listener is about how badly the outsourcing of such key services as email by Xtra has backfired not only on Telecom but on its customers. Yesterday, ... More >>
Public Address 19/11/07 - Meet The New Bob
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:58 am | Public Address
I wonder if the Electoral Finance Bill is the political right's GE issue: a rallying point for protest and an issue in which that dogged protest has had a valuable impact on legislation, but whose proponents have a tendency to absolutism -- and don't half ... More >>
Public Address 16/11/07 - Fake Fiona Rae
Friday, 16 November 2007, 3:47 pm | Public Address
What with the Fake Steve Jobs having a book out and disinfo Bomber reminding everyone how creepy and vindictive a peace-loving activist can get when he's crossed, I thought I'd have a crack at the fake thing myself. I thought that, seeing as Fiona's indisposed, ... More >>
Public Address 14/11/07 - "The Terrorism Files"
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 11:14 am | Public Address
Well, the Dominion Post has done it: published some, but by no means all, of the police evidence presented in support of Terrorism Suppression Act charges, drawn from the 156-page affadavit presented to court. And it's fairly shocking. There's ... More >>
Public Address 13/11/07 - The Finance Campaign
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 10:49 am | Public Address
The Finance Campaign | Nov 13, 2007 09:44 Russell Brown's Hard News It's not so long ago that the New Zealand Herald didn't do campaigning journalism. Acting on the assumption that they were in charge of the "paper of record", the Herald's ... More >>
Public Address 9/11/07 - Tapped Out & Meanwhile...
Friday, 9 November 2007, 2:18 pm | Public Address
I'm glad that the 12 won't be charged under the Terrorism Suppression Act. I'm glad that Howard Broad has indicated some process of conciliation with the people of Ruatoki is underway. I'm glad I live in a country where the senior non-political law official ... More >>
Public Address 08/11/07 - The Demon E-Word
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 11:48 am | Public Address
The Demon E-Wor d | Nov 08, 2007 10:22 Russell Brown's Hard News The drive-by criticisms of certain conservative columnists notwithstanding, the New Zealand Curriculum project seems to me to be a model of modern education practice: initially and perhaps most ... More >>
