Posts by Russell Brown
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I'm reluctant to push it too much – or, rather, I want to make sure I can deliver when I ask for support – but the Public Address voluntary subscriptions have helped a great deal in making the hobby viable. It's only about $800 a month in mostly small commitments, but it goes some way towards justifying the time spent over the years.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to
Meanwhile, anyone who works in healthcare read the headline and paused to consider which abbreviation "MSM" was intended...
Ha, yes. I got really confused when that came up in the Hepatitis C story I was researching.
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Toby Manhire swings in behind Red Peak in his Herald column today.
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Hard News: To have a home, in reply to
Even if NZ raises it's quota, the system is quite slow moving and won't do a great deal to help the people that need help immediately. To get here they first have to get to a UN camp, where they will have to wait a long time to be processed. They will then spend a long time in the centre in Manurewa.
True. The long wait in camps and resettlement centres is a feature of refugee stories. But we might as well start sooner than later.
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Hard News: To have a home, in reply to
I couldn't help recalling Dave Dobbyn's "Welcome Home"
Great minds! I just added it to the post. Let both instances stand :-)
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to
I first saw that picture of plastic plates on Facebook yesterday morning, four hours before this post was published.
Yes, it was all over Twitter too. I couldn't work out who took the original photo.
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Rowan Simpson makes a good case for the Dustin flag to be added.
One thing we can all do is sign the ActionStation open letter.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to
and so on until it's a fern - no matter what.
This has become an awful, awful, awful process.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to
This morning on Nat Radio I thought I heard someone from 'the panel' (not Mora's) state that they had had input from 'a million' people. Seemed a bit optimistic to me - maybe they earned their dosh after all...
I think they're counting everyone who ever mentioned it on social media.
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