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Public Address 27/09/10 - At least we have MMP
Monday, 27 September 2010, 9:00 pm | Public Address
So Hilary Calvert is a Member of Parliament. Let us be thankful that we have MMP. Had David Garrett been wheeled in as an electorate candidate in support of the election of a broader church National Party he'd probably still be in Parliament. But as a ... More >>
Public Address 20/09/10 - Postmodern Banks Anxiety
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 4:41 pm | Public Address
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that a few people have taken the fake John Banks Twitter account for the real thing. Not everyone enjoys the modern ability to parse irony that is the birthright of the digital native. And Banks himself makes for a ... More >>
Public Address 17/09 - Subliterate Representations
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 1:19 pm | Public Address
So I got an email about social responsibility. On average, I am reasonably socially responsible - meaning that I am occasionally irresponsible, but reliably social - so I thought I'd give it a go. I am, my friends will tell you, all about giving it ... More >>
Public Address 15/09/10 - Constitutional outrage
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 11:29 am | Public Address
We're all about the Kens on Media7 this week. I'll be talking to trade union leader Ken Douglas, whose biography, Man for all seasons: The life and times of Ken Douglas, by David Grant, has just been published. He has some forthright things to say about ... More >>
Public Address 14/09/10 - The best blogger
Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 5:48 pm | Public Address
Sometimes, there are advantages to being ill-educated. Let me explain. Everyone I know who has studied New Zealand literature at university has come away a little ambivalent about the experience. They feel, it seems, that they not so much absorbed ... More >>
Public Address 13/09/10 - Blended!
Monday, 13 September 2010, 3:56 pm | Public Address
I was reminded several times on Friday afternoon what a complex show we were staging at the Orcon Great Blend, but it wasn't really until the formal part of the evening concluded that it dawned on me quite how ambitious it had been. Thanks to our partnership ... More >>
Public Address 09/09/10 - file from Christchurch
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 2:50 pm | Public Address
Refugee Status | Sep 08, 2010 22:28 David Haywood from Christchurch A magnitude 7.1 earthquake, as we discovered on Saturday morning, sounds rather like a thousand empty wheelie bins being trundled over cobble-stones. We'd had difficulty getting ... More >>
PA 30/08/10 - Meaning Well With The Money Of Other
Monday, 30 August 2010, 4:32 pm | Public Address
A little while ago, when the full horror of Allan Hubbard's affairs was beginning to emerge from the statutory managers' reports, I asked a senior business journalist what he thought was going on. This was surely, I said, not a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme. ... More >>
Public Address 24/08/10 - Long Will Be The Lunches
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 5:39 pm | Public Address
Amid all the commentary about Australia's rather curious election campaign, there's one angle that hasn't received the airtime it deserves. The received wisdom is that no one won on Saturday. Au contraire. There was a winner - and it was the Australian ... More >>
Orcon Great Blend 2010: Creative Collaborations
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 5:25 pm | Public Address
It's been a while since the last Orcon Great Blend - December, in fact - but I can confidently say that this one is worth the wait. We have a new venue, the Civic Wintergarden; a new partner, The Edge; and a new theme: creative collaboration... More >>
09/08/10 - Absent Members
Monday, 9 August 2010, 6:41 pm | Public Address
Absent Members | Aug 08, 2010 23:14 Graeme Edgeler learns the lesson of history The Civil List Act doesn't get much press. But the laughable $10 fine per sitting day it imposes for AWOL MPs has some calling for change. Newspapers editors. Political ... More >>
Public Address 04/08/10 - Watching The Watchmen
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 6:39 pm | Public Address
This week's Media7 takes on the Wikileaks story – and the wider issue of the spreading secret establishment. Paul Buchanan granted us a useful interview from Singapore (we won't have room for all of it in the show, but we'll put the whole thing online), ... More >>
Public Address 28/07/10 - The Big Gay Revolution
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 5:50 pm | Public Address
They almost got me. Almost got into my head, made me one of theirs. It's the same with most cults: It all starts innocently enough, it seems attractive from the outside. Look at them with their good looks and their smooth edges. Contrast it with my mongrel ... More >>
Public Address 27/06/10 - The Kabul Diary
Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 7:54 pm | Public Address
I am not one of those people who regards Wikileaks as an unalloyed good. As Clay Johnson of InfoVegan noted last week, "a real free press cannot be formed around a cult of personality," yet that's what Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sometimes ... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 19/07/10 - Ideology for Evidence
Monday, 19 July 2010, 4:20 pm | Public Address
Last week, Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly told journalists that Department of Labour research into the first year of the 90-day trial employment law may have been "set up" to deliver a result for the government. Her only evidence was that ... More >>
Public Address 14/07/10 - Changing the News
Thursday, 15 July 2010, 3:15 pm | Public Address
This week's Media7 looks at the restructuring of TVNZ's news and current affairs operation, announced last week. The immediate response from critics has been to decry yet another round of cuts at the state broadcaster. But, despite the loss of about ... More >>
Public Address 13/07/10 - The Munter & the Munted
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 1:24 pm | Public Address
I'm glad that this will be the last series of Outrageous Fortune. Really. I know TV3 harboured hopes of getting its hit show to run and run, but it's right and proper that the writers who brought the phenomenon into being will be allowed to bring it ... More >>
Public Address 12/07/10 - The McCully Touch
Monday, 12 July 2010, 1:13 pm | Public Address
Being in government while New Zealand readies for and hosts a Rugby World Cup should be a gift. The reality is not always so happy, as Trevor Mallard discovered when he tried to give Auckland a stadium. But I don't think anyone expected that the current ... More >>
Public Address 08/07/10 - Party central
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 7:09 pm | Public Address
It's a year since John Key first brandished the phrase "party central" in announcing the government's join purchase of Queen's Wharf with the Auckland Regional Council. He presumably thought it sounded groovy. Sadly, it now evokes nothing so much as ... More >>
Public Address 06/07/10 - On The Film Commission
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 4:10 pm | Public Address
Whatever else you might say about Peter Jackson and David Court's long-awaited review of the New Zealand Film Commission, it contains few surprises for anyone familiar with Jackson's previous statements about the way the Commission works. Jackson hankers ... More >>
