Monthly Archives: May 2009
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Hero of the day – Dr Rob Carson
Boy falls off bike. Boy has a headache. Boy’s headache worsens. Mum is a nurse and whips him to the local country hospital. Boy begins to fall in and out of consciousness. Doctor recognises bleeding on the brain. “Bugger – I’m only a GP. I’ll phone a neuro surgeon in Melbourne”. Neuro surgeon tells doctor […]
Rankin on Sunday
Christine Rankin appeared on Sunday last night. Janet McIntyre read a statement from Margo McAuley’s sister. Christine Rankin read her own. What possesses Christine Rankin to keep trying to justify her life to the nation? She should just be quiet. The more appropriate course of action would have been to accept the Family Commission position […]
Christine and Margo
I couldn’t understand why I was getting an extraordinary number of hits on my Margo McAuley blog post until I saw the Herald on Sunday. A mainstream newspaper has finally revealed what many of us in Wellington have known for months – that Margo McAuley tragically took her own life in part because of her […]
Push Play stopped
The Sunday Star Times reported on May 3 that John Key and the National Government are following through on overhauling the sporting sector. This includes cutting budgets at SPARC, the agency that gave us Push Play and Mission On. The jury is out on Mission On and whether it has provided impetus to young people […]
Len Snee tragically killed – leave a tribute
Len Snee, Senior Constable with the New Zealand Police was tragically killed this morning while on duty in Napier. I remember Len Snee from my student days at Central Hawkes Bay College. I looked up to him, partly because he was at least three years ahead of me and taller and much bigger, but also […]