Posts by Russell Brown
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__Turns out, it's available here, at Kiwi Concerts.__
Damn that's a good link. I'm going to have to restrain myself until I get home and on my own internet coin now.
But isn't being a Public Address reader all about the boss's bandwidth?
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Another one granted bail: Marama Mayrick.
She's a film-maker who works with Rongomai Bailey. There seems to be a bit of a pattern of young high-achievers.
I also chanced across the name of one of the arrestees who still has name suppression. Her name will not be unfamiliar in protest and police circles.
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Dammit that 'feature' which means you can't close a quote directly after a url is starting to annoy me.
Just slip in a little carriage return ...
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Going to call theatre on that, Lucy - because I think a certain degree of scepticism is in order about the sources of "most accounts".
Oh, alright then: "Eyewitness accounts related to Dominion Post reporters." Given that you weren't there and didn't speak to witnesses, it seems a bit harsh to be questioning the word of those who did.
Anyway, one 'physical reaction' to someone getting in your face like that (assuming the allegation is true) is to detach yourself and walk away, not stage a confrontation.
Of course. I believe Mr Mallard said something of the kind:
"Clearly hitting someone is something that no one - especially a minister - should do. I'm incredibly sorry I did it," he told reporters.
"It doesn't matter what he did or said, I shouldn't have retaliated, it was absolutely wrong."
Henare was a plonker. Mallard was an even bigger plonker.
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Robyn:
Faaaaaaack the Checks were choice. I had such a bloody good time that it wiped me out till Saturday afternoon. And when I came to write about it, it was the first time that I had the "dancing about architecture" problem with writing about music: words were not enough to describe their awesomeness. But I gave it a crack, anyway
Nice. I thought the same as you on this one:
Actually, make me wonder what sort of songs the Checks are going to be writing when they’ve got a bit older and had their hearts broken, broken hearts and just lived life a bit more. I can’t wait to hear the sort of music they’ll be making in 10 years time.
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And he's been 'humiliated'? So he should be - but let's also remember what's NOT happened. He's probably going to be demoted, not removed from Cabinet, let thrown out of Parliament. He's not going to face any criminal charges ...
Well, Tau could always choose to lay a complaint of assault and take his chances. It doesn't look to me like something that should be cluttering up the courts.
I'd respectully suggest most of us wouldn't get off quite so lightly if we got into a fistfight in the workplace.
I'm sure it happens, and that it is dealt with in ways judged by management to be appropriate. This is the only case I'm aware of of someone being summarily dismissed under the ERA:
A woman, who was sacked for allegedly going to a colleague's house and beating her up, has lost her claim of unjustified dismissal.
Donna Maree Tauhore, who worked at Farmers department store in Masterton, took her case to the Employment Relations Authority after her dismissal in 2005.
She had been accused of telling her boss she needed to go home to change her clothes, and instead going to her co-worker's house and hitting her repeatedly in the head, in a dispute over a man.
The following day the co-worker received a text message from Ms Tauhore which began: "You're lucky I don't come round there and smash you good and proper bitch..."
At a disciplinary meeting with her employer, Ms Tauhore said she did not attack her workmate and she was later found not guilty in a District Court trial of assault.
Nonetheless Ms Tauhore was fired for seriously breaching work rules, including not committing violence or threats of violence against fellow workers.
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The Herald rescues its reputation somewhat this morning with an editorial demanding open justice in the current proceedings. Amen.
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Craig Ranapia considers the matter of "Mongrel Mallard and Testosterone Tau" and wonders about accountability ...
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An interview with YouTube's international product manager Luis Garcia, about last week's launch of New Zealand's own gateway into YouTube.
Conducted before the full lameness of the offering had become apparent.
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Ben, Craig: I applaud having at the Herald. I just don't think we should buy into the very prejudice they play on.
The bio on Scoop, posted by his supporters, says he's "Half-Palestinian half Pakeha NZer, born in Greece but raised in New Zealand":
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00390.htm
I guess it's how you hold your mouth when you say it.
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