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Russell Brown

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Russell Brown

@publicaddress

Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, dad-DJ, seeker of joy. @publicaddress.bsky.social publicaddress.net/supporters/

Auckland

Joined December 2008

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Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Feb 29, 2020
Replying to @publicaddress
Quality of government and trust in systems are about to become very, very important. Governments conjured by merchants of chaos, lately ascendant in the world, are going to be a real problem.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Nov 14, 2024
There are times when disobedience is an important political gesture.
Nick
@StrayDogNZ
Nov 14, 2024
Parliament suspended after floor-shaking haka by Te Pāti Māori
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Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Nov 10, 2020
A Trump supporter in Pennsylvania is being charged with voter fraud and forgery for allegedly requesting an absentee ballot for his dead mother. huffpost.com/entry/-trump-s… via @HuffPostPol
Trump Supporter Arrested For Requesting Absentee Ballot For Dead Mother
From huffpost.com
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Jan 19, 2023
Apart from wartime, no New Zealand Prime Minister has faced the challenges Jacinda Ardern has handled. And certainly none has had to govern through the kind of deranged abuse and threat to which she has been subject in the past two years.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Aug 9, 2022
Espiner reads a list of disgraced National MPs and candidates to Luxon: "It looks like you're selecting arrogant and entitled men with no sense of public duty." Oof.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Feb 21, 2022
Ardern to Soper: no, we are not going to indulge the protesters with a meeting on the same day they threw human waste at police.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Jul 5, 2023
Mum drew her last breath at a minute past midnight, and about an hour after she made it clear she didn't want the oxygen any more (it was much more peaceful without it). We got her back to her room in the rest home today and I was holding her hand throughout her departure.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Feb 28, 2022
Hilariously, the protestors and their cheerleaders claiming victory over the ending of isolation for inbound travellers don't seem to have grasped that those travellers are subject to ... a vaccine mandate. 😂
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Dec 4, 2023
Te Pati Māori's ability to quickly, quietly mobilise a nationwide protest with modest resources is remarkable. Quite a contrast to the astroturf events of recent years. And quite a flex.
Two arrests on Auckland motorways as Te Pāti Māori protests disperse
From nzherald.co.nz
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Jun 13, 2021
Intrigued by this new centre-right framing that riding a bike makes you part of the grasping, entitled middle-class elite, but if you own multiple investment properties you're a hard-working Kiwi battler trying to provide for your family.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Aug 11, 2020
I guess we can all be glad the family in South Auckland didn't listen to the broadcasters who told people to say no to tests.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Feb 28, 2020
Dear fellow Aucklanders. I don't mean to be rude, but storming the supermarkets on a Friday night to panic-buy canned food and water because one, well-managed, case of Covid-19 has been reported is not rational on any level.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Jan 27, 2023
We need to talk about this, the only communication to Aucklanders about yesterday's catastrophic weather event from Auckland Council's social media account, posted at least six hours after the heaviest rain began. It's not an update or bulletin, it's a PR defence of the mayor.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Dec 13, 2022
Every job I need to finish by Christmas has had some sort of problem happen with it. But today was a brilliant day, because my ASD son who was pulled out of school aged 12, completed his Media Design School course, with two A+ marks (game design and 3D animation) to his name.