Posts by Russell Brown
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Journalist, blogger, author and occasional musician Chris Bell talks about the creative power of giving away his published work via his website -- and why you have to ask him first ...
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Just to play devil's advocate for a sec., I can't help thinking that Dewar, guilty or not, never had a chance. You know what people (ie jury members) are like; "Well, *someone* ought to pay for this mess".
I suspect you're right. And the jury's view in that respect was probably strengthened as they grasped the implications of what they were hearing.
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No, I don't think he showed great judgment at the time. But given that the guy was 23 or 24 at the time, I guess many of us can say the same thing, maybe even you, too, Craig! But I would hate to think that you would be hung, drawn and quoted based on something you said (or did) 20 years ago.
He was part of a group of policeman who abused the trust placed in them, manipulated the system and preyed on the vulnerable over a period of years. And as the recording showed, one of that group, Dewar, clearly believed that the baton incident was not consensual. That it was, in other words, rape.
Furthermore, Rickards' more recent utterances clearly demonstrate a disregard for justice. However much you might want to believe it ron, this isn't some youthful error of judgement.
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Russell was saying that he should never be our commissioner, not that he currently is:
That's what I meant, but for the sake of clarity I've amended the wording.
I really think confirmation of what went in in the Murupara trials is the most damning thing to come out of Dewar's conviction. Much what happened subsequently flowed from that.
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We popped in to the palatial Wellington office of New Zealand's leading independent news website, Scoop, to quiz the workers -- chief reporter Kevin List and and reporter Lyndon Hood -- about journalism at the upstart edge.
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Check out our big ups from Autism Diva. Stoked.
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I really would have considered it if the suggestion had come from someone else. With late support from David Lane of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, the guy organising the smacking referendum petition and the Vision Network.
You know what really, really fucks me off?
Nearly all of those people supported or offered a platform to the "Timaru lady" and her disastrous, dysfunctional, violent ideas about parenting.
If that case came up this week, do you think they'd be rushing to her side?
Like hell.
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Russell, is this Paul Rose? If so, what's he doing these days? I crossed paths with him when he lived in Dunedin and he always had great music-biz anecdotes.
He still does. He's selling ads for gaynz.com, driving limos and creating his customary mayhem. It was Paul who introduced me to Family. I know you can bowl in there straight as all get-out and no one will bother you, but I prefer to accompany Paul. Is there a word for the opposite of a beard?
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And I didn't know that Google Video embedded so nicely here. Not strictly NZ-relevant, but so good I'm happy to overlook it.
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I had to stop the tears running down my face so I could laugh like a hyena at that.
There was a kind of effortless virtuosity in the way the writers and cast pulled off all those shifts from tragedy to comedy and back again. It was just hugely impressive.
The first time I interviewed James G I asked him about that interplay, and it was his view that Shortland Street's most successful tragic and dramatic stories had been cast into relief by a comic thread.
I think he'd tell you that what you're seeing on screen now is the fruit of the trade that a bunch of people learned on our medical soap.
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