Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: The secret Christchurch conversation ... about leaving https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=316018#post316018 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=316018#post316018 I see Nicky Wagner crowing in Th eStar that she has her political zest back!Hah! – that always happens when you are a grated lemon!

Meanwhile Ruth Dyson has announced another Labour Policy

]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:08:10 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=315953#post315953 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=315953#post315953 Central heating...
as the de facto current Chch thread...

I see Nicky Wagner crowing in Th eStar that she has her political zest back!
Hah! – that always happens when you are a grated lemon!

]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:41:20 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=315503#post315503 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=315503#post315503 I just wanted to say massive props to this woman who has seen her way to making a difference to the homeless here in Christchurch, and has scored a groundswell of support through this Stuff article.

Wow, thanks Robert, I missed this.

]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:03:37 +1200 Robert Urquhart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=315379#post315379 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=315379#post315379 Is this the current Chch thread? It'll do anyway ;)

I just wanted to say massive props to this woman who has seen her way to making a difference to the homeless here in Christchurch, and has scored a groundswell of support through this Stuff article.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/city-centre/10156724/Cleaners-gesture-to-homeless
Facebook page

]]> Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:59:44 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=313237#post313237 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=313237#post313237 http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/10054608/Christchurch-flood-action-in-legal-limbo ]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 19:25:17 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=313236#post313236 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=313236#post313236 http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/10054608/Christchurch-flood-action-in-legal-limbo ]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 19:24:10 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=313093#post313093 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=313093#post313093 http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/10046758/Brownlee-Quakes-didn-t-cause-floods

actually...back in the day i lived in Harrison street...for a while...was no floods back then...mr woodwerk....

this is why I left churchtown.... the inhumane amongst us...a mere few streets over...

cruel east west earthquake...i really hate political earthquakes...ah well I suppose the west will be shoved off its datum...when…

]]> Thu, 15 May 2014 21:49:19 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312721#post312721 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312721#post312721 A great blog on the flooding and its complexities.

http://thechristchurchfiasco.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/silt-and-the-city/

]]> Sat, 10 May 2014 16:57:39 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312595#post312595 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312595#post312595 Thu, 08 May 2014 21:36:13 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312498#post312498 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312498#post312498 and now...

for some sober financial analysis, about blocked drains, and grandstanding daddy

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/10019150/Christchurch-in-financial-strife

Christchurch in financial strife

PS They are planning night flights from Queenstown soonish...some of you could wisk away,,,in the night....just an idea.

]]> Wed, 07 May 2014 21:54:11 +1200 yatnek https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312347#post312347 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312347#post312347 Tue, 06 May 2014 22:52:54 +1200 Minnie Ball https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312346#post312346 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312346#post312346 Tue, 06 May 2014 21:04:45 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312241#post312241 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312241#post312241 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqwiKGLYZw

The Phoenix Foundation – Thames Soup


i don't live here......

]]> Tue, 06 May 2014 00:54:22 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312228#post312228 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312228#post312228 you can mix some good stuff with those clips...a voice over..a bit of history...some flooded shit....high up the foot hills..in gumboots...the good days...the 03 ..with a Leroy finn 1234...held 2gether with the base....yeah....
and a dozen letters

to





the









editor.....

]]> Mon, 05 May 2014 22:04:59 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312077#post312077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312077#post312077 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhQsM8YN4A

Lawrence Arabia – Talk About Good Times

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 21:24:24 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312076#post312076 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312076#post312076 well I dunno...but probably...the 03

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YuOsdKXuyQ

Talking Heads: Lawrence Arabia

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 21:12:31 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312075#post312075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312075#post312075 From a simpler time. Always wondered if they were Steiner kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XZnjZ1lcTE

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 20:59:50 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312074#post312074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312074#post312074 ....and a dozen letters to the Editor

PEACE

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 20:36:42 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312073#post312073 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312073#post312073 "I took the photo from the St Martins Road bridge, Fifield on the left, Riverlaw on the right – our corner, we’re a few doors down. "

....cool.... I was just a few street corners off...if one was to be particular...like a poem...suggestive of street corners and volcanic vista's,,,but still…

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 20:32:19 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312067#post312067 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312067#post312067 I’m here, in Auckland, Shulgin. If there’ anything I can do, let me know. Email me. Even just for a talk. If you need a friend, I’m here.
Also, I'm a bit of a dog person. Well, a complete dog nutter really. So there's that.

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 19:26:13 +1200 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312063#post312063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312063#post312063 when words don't add much its good to reach for the art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOi_wxypeGc

]]> Sat, 03 May 2014 18:22:11 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312029#post312029 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312029#post312029 Sat, 03 May 2014 01:47:42 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312027#post312027 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312027#post312027 Well written...and sad...but empathize...

Pretty sure the photo is near Ford Road...just near Opawa Primary School...not far from Hansens where we used to walk our dog after dropping our child at the school...we got on a plane and went north in Feb 2011...came back and packed up the mess in…

]]> Fri, 02 May 2014 23:47:35 +1200 Rachel Harris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312021#post312021 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=312021#post312021 Fri, 02 May 2014 19:31:22 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311987#post311987 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311987#post311987 Minnie, I don't want to be flippant or replay something you know but this man I found very helpful (I think the date shd be 2014 not last year):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwOlPv1RplM

I empathise completely about the counsellors. Though well-meaning it's hard to hear.

]]> Fri, 02 May 2014 14:36:42 +1200 Minnie Ball https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311945#post311945 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311945#post311945 Fri, 02 May 2014 08:15:11 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311941#post311941 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311941#post311941 I have a link for people needing help and succour — a place near Hamilton that is offering free retreats for people who are stressed as a result of the earthquakes. It sounds wonderful and may be of use to you. I hope so.

http://www.themonastery.co.nz/home

]]> Fri, 02 May 2014 00:17:25 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311932#post311932 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311932#post311932 Thu, 01 May 2014 20:32:12 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311906#post311906 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311906#post311906 Minnie, I'm so sorry. Sounds like you've coped with astonishing difficulties. Nobody should have to deal with so much crap. :-(

I hope there will be some way for you to get a fresh start, with heaps of support. Big hugs.

]]> Thu, 01 May 2014 16:03:39 +1200 Minnie Ball https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311905#post311905 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311905#post311905 Thu, 01 May 2014 15:43:46 +1200 David Thompson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311887#post311887 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311887#post311887 Thu, 01 May 2014 11:41:32 +1200 Michelle L https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311855#post311855 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311855#post311855 Thu, 01 May 2014 01:36:23 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311852#post311852 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311852#post311852 Vote. And encourage others to vote. Only a change of government can help us.

What he said.

]]> Thu, 01 May 2014 00:14:56 +1200 Isaac Freeman https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311848#post311848 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311848#post311848 Is there anything the luckier rest of us can do to help?

Vote. And encourage others to vote. Only a change of government can help us.

Even if they like John Key, they have to see that his government has made too many bad decisions in Christchurch, and they can't…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:46:42 +1200 Leanne Curtis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311819#post311819 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311819#post311819 . If you want… ]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:04:10 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311810#post311810 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311810#post311810 the government should have stepped in and made sure everyone got the insurance that they were owed....

Bart see my post over on James's flood piece: that's the next big chapter in this story.

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:37:39 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311809#post311809 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311809#post311809 that tight look

Yes. Tight and tired.

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:33:48 +1200 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311807#post311807 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311807#post311807 ISTM that the first step in botching the "rebuild" is in thinking of it as, and calling it, a "rebuild".
The business heavyweights who sponsor our political leadership wouldn't like it any other way, so Chch has to have a recreation of the CBD with stronger safety margins, built at…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:30:36 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311785#post311785 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311785#post311785 Thanks for this Greg, and to Russell for keeping Chch concerns in the public eye on Public Address.

I've left Chistchurch. I miss it, and the people there, a lot, but the relief of not-being-in-Chch is unbelievable.

I look around at people on the street here, and they're just getting…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:26:52 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311781#post311781 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311781#post311781 The situation in Christchurch makes me so sad. It feels like we (New Zealand) have failed in a fundamental obligation of care to our fellow citizens.

When the government should have stepped in and made sure everyone got the insurance that they were owed they instead cut a deal. When…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:13:10 +1200 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311776#post311776 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311776#post311776 There’s what Stephen describes as “ambient despair” (I think): this utter low-level but absolutely constant sense of stagnation and decline that’s an effort to push away.

“Ambient distress”, I think I have used in the past. Free-floating psychic hurt, there’s a lot of it around in this city. Especially in…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:02:06 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311761#post311761 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311761#post311761 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:55:43 +1200 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311727#post311727 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311727#post311727 Between emotion vampires like Paul “how’s-my-ratings’ Henry, and Susie ‘shout-over-the-top-of-people-trying-to-answer-the-previous-question’ Ferguson I’m giving up on the Media for any reasoned response No more Morning Report for me, what’s the point anymore – tossers!And I never watch Henry's show it is worse than Seven sharp (if that is possible)…

Yeah Morning…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:52:35 +1200 Marian Hobbs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311726#post311726 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311726#post311726 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:48:43 +1200 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311725#post311725 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311725#post311725 Miles away and without direct experience of the events in Christchurch I feel for those still hanging on. I know some are tied by not being able to sell their property. I'm sure that if I had been living in Christchurch, I would be well gone by now.
The properties…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:43:26 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311717#post311717 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311717#post311717 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:58:10 +1200 Gregor Ronald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311707#post311707 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311707#post311707 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:41:35 +1200 Ianmac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311706#post311706 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311706#post311706 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:41:06 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311693#post311693 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311693#post311693 +1
(well +2, and 2 cats really)

Thanks for articulating this so well Greg.

and Stuff like this doesn’t help one jot!
’Sort it out Lianne’
TV3 broadcaster Paul Henry has joined critics accusing the Christchurch City Council of being too slow to produce solutions to the repeated flooding of…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:00:13 +1200 llew40 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311692#post311692 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311692#post311692 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:57:38 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311691#post311691 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311691#post311691 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:55:09 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311690#post311690 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-secret-christchurch-conversation/?p=311690#post311690 Discussion from blog post.

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