Not in front of the children | Dec 07, 2009 10:19
Russell Brown's Hard News
A Herald editorial attempts, in unlovely prose, to consider the issues embodied in the furore around Paul Henry's unpleasant comments about Susan Boyle. It is justifiably cautious about a call by Special Olympics New Zealand chairman David Rutherford for the Broadcasting Standards Authority to ensure that...
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Don't Fall off The Mountain | Dec 07, 2009 10:17
Graham Reid's many things
Because I have never read the Maurice Gee novel and only have the vaguest recollection of the television adaptation (which my pre-teen kids loved at the time), maybe I would be a reliable witness to talk about the movie of Under the Mountain. I'm not attached to previous versions. It...
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We Haven't Forgotten You Christchurch! | Dec 05, 2009 22:49
David Haywood from Christchurch
Last night we had the utterly excellent Orcon Great Blend Christmas Party in Auckland -- and the week before we had the boozy Public Address book-launch in Wellington. So it would be quite reasonable for the citizens of Christchurch to feel a little deprived in the party-on-dude department...
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I was the only person wearing a tie | Dec 04, 2009 17:45
Hadyn Green apologises for swearing
I wasn't quite sure what was supposed to happen. But the players did, they all took a knee, so did the referees, so did all the players on the bench and the bench managers. Someone was injured, and it was something I hadn't seen before because it doesn't happen in...
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