Public Address | Cafe | Polity: This is Why, This is Why I Fight

Russell Brown

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:31:49 +1300

Thanks all for your very nice welcome. And thanks also for your kind words about Sophie. I’m glad people find value in learning about struggles such as hers.

One of the principles of this place is that the sharing of opinions is good – but the sharing of experiences is…

Rob Salmond

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:57:55 +1300

Thanks all for your very nice welcome. And thanks also for your kind words about Sophie. I'm glad people find value in learning about struggles such as hers.

Nat

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:14:46 +1300

Welcome Rob!

I've read your Speaker pieces with interest. I'm living in the US (without voting rights unfortunately), so will be following that closely. I also read your Sophie archive (after it was linked in one of your posts I think), and agree that with Hillary about it being some…

James Littlewood*

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:54:27 +1300

I differ from Labour on tax

So does Labour.

BenWilson

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:26:21 +1300

Welcome welcome! Looking forward to your work. Please tell me if I'm hogging your threads too! I dig your style, even if I don't entirely support your chosen party. But I will admit they're inching closer to a win for me with a lot of moves recently. If you're helping…

Paul Williams

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:17:14 +1300

A great addition to the PA community.

tony j ricketts

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:25:45 +1300

Welcome to PA, Rob as Polity, it's a pretty civil place, a bit like much of Wellington (I've lived here just over 3 years), but also pretty perceptive.
I'm Labour too, these last 3 years, mostly with pride, and sometimes embarrassment. And also have aspects of my life outside politics,…

B Jones

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:54:08 +1300

Me too. I remember Rob from varsity (I was one of the quiet ones a couple of degrees of friendship away, reading my textbook in the Kirk foyer before POLS 101) and it's a hell of a thing to read about relatively close to your own circles. I have young…

Euan Mason

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 14:38:16 +1300

Moving writing about Sophie, Rob. There are no words to express how I felt after reading it.

Hilary Stace

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:45:07 +1300

Rob's account of the life and death of his daughter Sophie is some of the most gripping and absorbing writing I've read – these things do happen and families have to deal with them. (I've shared it a lot.)

Rob Salmond

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:20:48 +1300

Looks like the PA tech gurus have already done shifted the Speaker posts. They're slick!

Russell Brown

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:13:04 +1300

Welcome, Rob! And sorry it took so long ...

We have a way of migrating those speaker posts, with their comments, to your new blog, so that will happen soon.

Public Address

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:13:04 +1300

Discussion from blog post.