Public Address 26 October 2011 - And back to the News...

PREFU 2011: “What credit downgrade?”
16:09 Oct 25, 2011 in OnPoint by Keith Ng
Headlines from the Pre-Election Fiscal Update today: The economic impact of the Christchurch Earthquake was less than expected. This means the short-term hit will be smaller, but the rebound from that will be smaller as well. Household saving was higher...
http://publicaddress.net/onpoint/prefu-2011-what-credit-downgrade/

Occupy: Don’t call it a protest
14:20 Oct 25, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
“Go the All Blacks!” said the young woman. I smiled and gave her the thumbs up. It was a scene so ubiquitous on Cup Final Day as to barely be worth remarking on—were it not for the fact...
http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/occupy-dont-call-it-a-protest/

Election Fact Check #3: It shouldn’t be this way
10:15 Oct 24, 2011 in Legal Beagle by Graeme Edgeler
The Listener has an excellent and pithy feature evaluating some MMP myths. I think they’ve done a good job, but there is a glaring error, and it’s one that has been made a lot. New Zealand First did not get...
http://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/election-fact-check-3-it-shouldnt-be-this/

A moment of national significance
12:06 Oct 23, 2011 in Field Theory by Hadyn Green
The streets will be loud tonight, car horns will blare until the early hours, we will drink and scream and cheer and groan and complain and cheer again. We will applaud and slap backs and hug and some of us...
http://publicaddress.net/fieldtheory/a-moment-of-national-significance/

When the Game is Over
10:01 Oct 23, 2011 in Hard News by Russell Brown
The National Film Unit documentary 1950 British Empire Games opens with a vision of New Zealand as we liked to see it then, and still do now, in our fonder moments: “Here in New Zealand, from mountain-tops to the sea,...
http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/when-the-game-is-over/

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