Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I’m sure there’s many things more fair: ¶ The smell of burnt caramel nuts drift by ¶ As gaggles of giggling chavs seek their destiny: ¶ This City does, like a sweaty garment, wear...
We'll be looking at media coverage of the Budget on Media7 this week: examining the language of Budget delivery, its subsequent interpretation and who really had something useful to say. I'd like you to help me crowdsource that analysis. ¶ So...
Here's the thing about economics: it determines the way we live our lives, but most of us are shut out from discussing it -- by language or privilege, or simply because it seems too hard. Thus do assumptions go unchallenged...
There was some outrage recently when a feature in the Dominion Post put Paula Bennett, who had just announced the government's intention to fund long-term contraception for beneficiaries, in the same frame as Josef Mengele, the Nazi "doctor" at Auschwitz...
Intro Public Address regulars Sofie and Jackie love dogs. If this has not been made abundantly clear to you yet, then this will remove any residual doubt. ¶ Having broken the Internet with our inaugural Cat Thread (does this mean we're...
"I think," tweeted Gemma Gracewood from New York, "that the TVNZOnDemand version of the feature-length episode of Shortland Street should be ungeoblocked just for my birthday." ¶ Good point, I thought. Global distribution deals notwithstanding, doesn't the diaspora deserve a break...
Jed Soane has been taking photographs for Field Theory for a while now. Along with Mike Roseingrave (now in Melbourne), Jed has followed me on some crazy adventures over the years. ¶ Recently Jed has upped his game with the Beer...
Last weekend we decided to 'go crazy' and got tickets to see Prince at Allphones Arena, Olympic Park Sydney. If things were different, if our seats weren't the furthest possible from the stage (we still loved it), if the venue...
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 of...
Parliament's Government Administration Committee is currently considering the Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Services) Bill. It will surprise few of you that I have made a submission. For those interested, it is copied below. ¶ If you have a view on...
When you sue someone, you have to serve the first set of documents on them personally - literally hand them to them, or place them down in their presence and clearly bring them to their attention. They have to provide...
One week they were demolishing the building behind the Grey Lynn Mitre 10 on Richmond Road -- and the next, it seemed, there was a shiny new Farro store, selling "food from people who cook". I was intrigued. ¶ Shopping for...
Here is a quick rundown of the new rules to be trialled by the IRB: ¶ 1. Law 16.7 (Ruck): The ball has to be used within five seconds of it being made available at the back of a ruck or...
Last Friday night we went to see Tono and The Finance Company play the final night of their 'Up Here For Dancing' release tour at the intimate Lucha Lounge in Newmarket. The music was great, Tono's lyrics are wry, funny...
This week on Media7, we're looking at the curious case of Fyx, the retail ISP launched last week by Maxnet with a new pricing model and -- this is what got everyone chattering -- a "global mode" whose purpose, although...
According to Nielsen research that I can't be bothered digging up right now, you, dear Public Address reader, are notably confident about buying things online, relative to the general population. It's a fair bet that you're also pretty confident about...
Last night's Media7 programme is online here -- and there's also a 20-minute extended interview with Bryan Gould. The programme is not entirely unsympathetic to its subject, Rupert Murdoch -- senior lecturer at Auckland University and former Herald editor Gavin...
Introduction Yesterday Lilith posted a few photos in the comments of our EQNZ Remembrance post, and it made me think we should take the opportunity to open another thread. ¶ So here are two different depictions of life as it goes...
Yesterday - after a bit of effort - the House of Representatives held a conscience vote on the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill. ¶ When the House abandons its usual practice of voting upon party lines, or at least when...
I've always found it impossible to walk past a bookstore, even if there's nothing in it I can read apart from the imported pornography (don't ask unless you have serious cash-money in hand). ¶ But anyone who cares to explain this,...
To state the obvious: Student loans are loans. When you pay off a loan, you stop paying. So if repayments go up from 10% to 12%, graduatues won't pay more - they just pay *earlier*. ¶ This impacts on government finances:...
In advance of the tri-ennial Parliamentary review of the election, the Electoral Commission has released its Report of the 2011 General Election and Referendum. ¶ There's some interesting reading in it: for electoral law nerd like me, but also of more...
Last night, in case you were on Mars and failed to notice, there was a Perigee (opposite Apogee), something resembling, but not actually, #supermoon. ¶ Having recently added 100mm to my telescopic lens, this seemed like a good time to get...
A system as malign and pervasive as that imposed on British public life by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers was never going to be tidily unwound. But that unwinding -- from the campaigning journalism that exposed the phone-hacking story, to the political...
For the last two weeks I've been trying to write a follow-up column to my last one, on how we go about moving towards a more sex-positive world. Turns out that once you've typed, "Be the change you want to...