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The Sevens (the bit I missed) | Feb 09, 2010 10:36
Hadyn Green apologises for swearing
Once again Mike took spectacular photos of the action on and off the field. But yesterday, while posting from a pub wth spotty wi-fi at best and a dying laptop battery (thanks Matt for putting up yesterday's post!) I couldn't add them in. So here are a few of his...
We hold these truths to be self-evident | Feb 09, 2010 10:12
Keith Ng: Fire is not the answer
... that setting $1.3 billion on fire would be harmful to the economy and the environment. The last "king hit" from the Property Council is a report they commissioned NZIER to write, which talked about all the ways in which the tax changes are bad. The first footnote...
The Treaty and Me | Feb 08, 2010 14:22
I suppose it's true to say that much of my early education on matters of class and race came in the 1960s from two unlikely sources: the left-wing British newspaper, the Daily Mirror, and the two weekly US news magazines, Time and Newsweek. I did not know at the time...
Standards Matter | Feb 08, 2010 10:13
It's a quirk of the modern media world that we increasingly get our information from people who don't know anything. It's the age of the vox pop; of the harvesting of feelings rather than thoughts. And no local organisation has been more assiduous lately in separating information and knowledge than...
Wired for Sound | Feb 05, 2010 18:09
Damian Christie - Cracker With Attitude
Friday afternoon, I hang out a late load of washing, hoping it will dry in the last few hours of a gorgeous sunny Auckland day. Among the t-shirts, an old AC/DC tour shirt. I've hung it out to dry many times over the years, but never with as much reason...
Pauly Fuemana: How . . . sad | Jan 31, 2010 15:30
I wish I wasn't writing this. I wish it wasn't humid and raining. I wish I could bring myself to put his album on right now. But -- and I really don't know why -- I am overwhelmed by grief to learn that Pauly Fuemana has died. Many, many others...
Of rights, choice, money ... and buses | Jan 29, 2010 10:52
Guest: Philip Patston's unique experience
Not many people talk about what they might do if they got hit by a bus. Given the state of public transport in NZ, perhaps that's not surprising. When you think that it's a possibility for everyone, it gets more intriguing. Life could change quite dramatically and quite quickly. But...
All Together Now | Jan 25, 2010 14:13
Emma Hart is sometimes a bit sarky.
I find it harder to get my rage on in the summer holidays, or when I've been ill for nearly two months, but if everyone else is going to write about banging, it seems only right that I should too. So let's talk about group sex...
Big bang theory | Jan 24, 2010 13:24
Hello! Gosh. Long time no blog, I know. It's been so long – since June last year, in fact, that I hardly know where to begin. So much water under the bridge, so much television into the ether. How was the rest of your 2009? Mine ended with a bang...
David Garrett wins | Jan 19, 2010 18:53
Graeme Edgeler learns the lesson of history
I blame Kim Workman. Had he not gotten smart with his Official Information Act requests – the ones that found that the version of three-strikes introduced would have saved precisely none of the lives ACT were trumpetting prior to the election – the highly emasculated form of three-strikes...
Holiday reading lust | Dec 22, 2009 08:19
Jolisa Gracewood reads very closely
I have the second sight, I do. Thursday: dropped off a box of chocolates at the public library and left with two bags of books. Friday: noticed that the weekend forecast promised an epic snowstorm. We only got a foot of snow in the end, but that's more than enough...
Dr Lockwood Smith: End of Session Speech 2009 | Dec 17, 2009 22:30
David Haywood from Christchurch
Public Address would like to thank the Speaker's Office for kindly allowing us permission to reproduce Dr Smith's end-of-session speech.
Once again, we have reached the end of another parliamentary year. Despite the economic downturn, it has -- in many ways -- been the most successful...
The World Is Full of Cu*ts | Nov 02, 2009 09:09
David Slack takes just about everything neat.
I can't say I'm surprised to hear that Brian Tamaki doesn't like people using the word cu*t. In my last conversation with him, I used a pithy exclamation to express my surprise at a story he was relating. I could have said to him: No way! I might have just...
My Imaginary Journey | Feb 03, 2006 09:27
A.R.D FAIRBURN in a strange land
If Rex Fairburn had been writing now he would surely have been a blogger. Not one whose work fell easily on the "left" or the "right", but assuredly one who would not shrink from a good argument. "He always wanted a scrap …" wrote Denis Glover and Geoffrey Fairburn on...