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Public Address 15 August 2012 - And so it begins
Wednesday, 15 August 2012, 5:11 pm | Public Address
Dear Chairperson, The Ministry of Education has received an Official Information Act request from John Hartevelt of Fairfax Media New Zealand relating to National Standards data that schools were required to send to the Ministry of Education by ... More >>
Public Address 2 August 12 - Book Awards, Media3, Mo' Games
Thursday, 2 August 2012, 2:18 pm | Public Address
This country’s “book tribe” – as Dr Sam Elworthy, chair of the Book Awards Governance Council, called it – is indeed a small one. In the lobby of the Auckland War Memorial Museum last night for the New Zealand Post Book Awards I spoke with ... More >>
Public Address - Christchurch: Is "quite good" good enough?
Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 12:48 pm | Public Address
The Christchurch CBD rebuild plan is now public and it seems … quite good. The inclusion of so much green space in the plan, the design around what should become self-sustaining precincts and the clustering of major facilities arund the new city ... More >>
Public Address: Christchurch: Is 'quite Good' Good Enough?
Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 9:49 am | Public Address
Christchurch: Is 'œquite good' good enough? 9:10 Jul 31, 2012 in Hard News by Russell Brown The Christchurch CBD rebuild plan is now public and it seems '¦ quite good. The inclusion of so much green space in the plan, the design around what should ... More >>
Public Address 25 July 2012: Glory! Glory! There's the salt!
Thursday, 26 July 2012, 5:26 pm | Public Address
The news that Margaret Mahy has written all her stories – for that is what her death means to us as readers, while for her family it is a whole other dimension of inevitable, unfathomable loss -- came to me via Twitter. More >>
Public Address: Margaret Mahy: The Storyteller in the Meadow
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:49 pm | Public Address
The only cultural story today is the death of literary icon Margaret Mahy. Time to share yours… More >>
Public Address 9 July 2012 - Music and the Party
Monday, 9 July 2012, 3:21 pm | Public Address
Well, all 500 places at next Thursday’s Orcon Great Blend are gone – and I barely had to remind anyone. This is, therefore, the point where I do two things. 1. Advise you to email me by clicking on the little envelope icon below to be put on a waiting ... More >>
Public Address 29 June 2012 - You're Telling My Child What?
Friday, 29 June 2012, 5:15 pm | Public Address
Over the years, I’ve had sex for some really stupid reasons. I know that’s hard to believe, but I have. I’ve had sex with people because it would be rude not to and I didn’t want to make a fuss. I’ve had sex because it was there and I had ... More >>
Public Address 27 June 2012 - These are New Zealanders
Thursday, 28 June 2012, 12:14 pm | Public Address
John Dobrée Pascoe (1908-1972) was a writer, documentary photographer, historian, pioneer archivist and mountaineer. These are his photographs from 1942-1945, when, as official photographer for the Department of Internal Affairs, he was instructed ... More >>
Public Address 26 June 2012 - Strange days for journalism
Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 2:04 pm | Public Address
For this week’s final episode of Media7, we had planned a discussion of “the state we’re in” in media. We’ve decided to refine that topic to partially focus on the extraordinary events unfolding across the Tasman at Fairfax, where billionaire ... More >>
Public Address 15 June 2012 - Happy, Happy News
Monday, 18 June 2012, 5:11 pm | Public Address
We’ve been due an Orcon Great Blend in Auckland, and I’ve been keen to return to the Civic Wintergarden as a venue. So that’s what we’ve done. In conjunction with NetHui and THE EDGE, the Orcon Great Blend 2012 will be presented by Public ... More >>
Public Address 8 June 2012 - Beautiful Music
Monday, 11 June 2012, 2:18 pm | Public Address
The term “Dutch Disease” was first used to describe the situation in the Netherlands in 1959, when the discovery of a large natural gas field increased revenues in that sector, overvaluing the exchange rate and causing a decline in the manufacturing ... More >>
Public Address 18 May 2012- To Whom It May Concern
Monday, 21 May 2012, 5:06 pm | Public Address
I am writing to heartily endorse Joshua Drummond for the position of Press Relations and Regulatory Affairs Manager at British American Tobacco. I have known Mr Drummond for many years through our mutual association with the Freedom Importers Association ... More >>
Public Address May 4, 2012 - Music and sharks
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 10:38 am | Public Address
It was fitting -- if basically incidental to the event -- that New Zealand Music Month month kicked off this week with a local music phenomenon. Home Brew’s debut double album wasn’t meant to be released until tomorrow, but it… More >>
Public Address 1 May: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall seeing you
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 3:36 pm | Public Address
If a man hides behind some hands - possibly his own - and an identical man emerges from those hands a few seconds later shouting "peek-a-boo!", how do you know if it's the same man? I mean, how do you REALLY know? More >>
Public Address 30 April 2012 - John Banks in strife
Monday, 30 April 2012, 5:40 pm | Public Address
From the perspective of a lawyer, among the words most misused in the news media may be “loophole”. It tends to be used to describe almost any piece of law that a journalist, or an interviewee, thinks is inconvenient... More >>
Public Address 26 April 2012 - Moving House!
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 12:33 pm | Public Address
Today’s the day that our riverside house leaves the river and the Residential Redzone. It will be cut into several pieces and trucked to its final destination in an empty paddock in lovely Dunsandel. I’ll be live-blogging the events of… More >>
Public Address: Stunning portraits, strange cops, bad rugby
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 12:28 pm | Public Address
The Blues are in a slump. On the field and off the field something is going wrong this season. Russell’s posts on the season so far seem to only scratch the surface. Poor play, poor management, poor experience for this... More >>
Public Address 20 April 2012 - War, now and then
Monday, 23 April 2012, 10:11 am | Public Address
I know that if I’m to purport to be even a part-time music blogger, I should have some killer links in the memory of Levon Helm today. And Danielle has come to my rescue with this -- a playable, downloadable, desirable bootleg of The Band live ... More >>
Public Address 16 April 2012 - The War Over a Mystery
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 2:18 pm | Public Address
The Blues’ worst enemies in their Super 15 game at Eden Park on Friday evening were, in order: 1. The Blues. If they managed to muster some confidence before they took the field, that was flushed away by the time... More >>
