John Campbell
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Journalist. Chief Correspondent @TVNZ. Previously, host of @Breakfaston1, @CheckpointRNZ, 3 News & Campbell Live. (Proud of that team work.) Personal account.
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa/NZ
Joined March 2009
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who I spoke to about her haka, the very many responses to it, her life in politics, and Kiingi Tuheitia's advice to be Māori.
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Jay Waaka, one of the road crew who overnight gently and lovingly moved thousands of bunches of flowers from the centre of Deans Ave to the side. All bunches carefully placed upright. All teddy bears seated properly. All cards & messages positioned so they can be read. Kindness.
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Dear Australia, once you've sorted marriage equality and Manus, give us a call and we'll explain MMP.
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This is terrible, ODT. What a shameful assault on the cartoonist's art - and on empathy, decency, human feeling, and the people of a country with which we're so close. As Sita says, most of the 55 lives lost have been under 5. Who would draw this? Who would publish this? And why?.
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Lots of people losing their jobs. Income, identity, purpose. Whatever happens, whatever coronavirus causes, we need to get as many of those jobs back, as soon as we can. And to do that, we have to stamp this shitty virus down. Please don't take the piss. Do what's required. ❤.
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Stop this. Stop it. It's shameful, racist, bigoted, shit. It's ignorant. It's hateful. It's vile. It's disgraceful. Stop it.
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Things I took days off from school for:.1. Hanging with my mates. 2. Chasing girls - unsuccessfully. 3. Commiserating with my mates about chasing girls unsuccessfully. 4. Needing fried rice & then a nap. In contrast, #schoolstrike4climate seems right, fine & magnificent.
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1. A small ☺️ announcement in the form of a thread!. After 3 years on @Breakfaston1, I'm finishing with that lovely team on Friday, to start a new role as TVNZ's Chief Correspondent. That's really what I came to TVNZ (in 2018) to do (before Breakfast happened), it's work that. .
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Strange, tough, unsettling times. I do so wish you all well. ❤ We can do this. Together. And here, by way of stirring inspiration, is a text exchange with my 16 year old son, who was so determined that his school would be closed he wanted to directly lobby the Minister! 😂😂😂
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The best team won. I wish we'd been better, but we were brilliantly outplayed. Forensically, architecturally, passionately and brilliantly. England deserved it. What a total and utter bummer.
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Less than three months since we went into lockdown, and now, and being here it really does seem remarkable, this.
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Watching the Dawn Raids apology and thinking of how the children & grandchildren of the communities we treated so disgracefully have carried our flag so beautifully in Japan. In the past 24 hours alone: Dame Valerie, Ruby Tui, Theresa Fitzpatrick, Alena Saili. truly incredible!.
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Who are the ram-raiders?. Young, broken by childhoods in which violence, drugs, trauma & insecurity are the norm. We talk about "tough love", but there's been precious little love for most of them. This is the story of who they are - and the people trying to save them, and us:.
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What the actual fuck?.
A mate - who’s staying at an Air BnB in Christchurch this weekend - just sent me this…
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Holy feeeeee-uck!!!! Japan have just beaten Ireland in the Rugby World Cup, in front of one of the happiest crowds in rugby history, at home!.
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Good evening. I've just seen the score from Canterbury. If children, the sensitive and my friends in Christchurch could please look away. Thank you. GO @Hurricanesrugby, YOU FUCKING BEAUTIES!!!! .YEEAAAAAH!!! GO, GO, GO, GO GO!!!!!!!.
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Who are we?. Where are we heading?. And who will we be when we get there?. My year-end politics column. Please read it (🙏🏽), no matter who you voted for, because - where are we heading?. John Campbell: Are we on the cusp of something new or something old?.
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I met @TaikaWaititi once. As we planted a kowhai tree together, not stirring the nesting Kakapo, we sang our National Anthem & softly wept.
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This just happened in Samoa. The Head of State was welcoming the Manu Samoa team, and then. (a bit overwhelmed, I felt unusually shy, but super proud and chuffed. So good to be here. Fa'afetai tele lava!).
@JohnJCampbell officially bestowed the title Toleafoa from the Royal Highness Head of state of Samoa 🇼🇸. Toleafoa John Campbell
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Just in an Uber. My driver does Uber despite having a degree in electrical engineering, because his work as a fibre technician, with a company subcontracting to Chorus, pays him $19 an hour. 19 bucks. When even Uber pays you more than electrical engineering, something's wrong.
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Driving in Ōtepoti (Dunedin) is like everyone's stoned! . The light turns green, they look at it, admire it, think of lime milkshakes, mmmmmm, then eventually, when the mood is good, set off!. But no-one beeps!. No-one! . No-one looks rageful, even as ages pass!. Lovely, Ōtepoti.
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Once again, I'm struck by how many of the lickspittles of the apocalypse, angry men (sic) who take to Twitter with their eschewing of empathy and their strident attacks on human dignity, do so from anonymous accounts. Maybe try owning your words, boys. Or aren't you brave enough?.
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Pete Jones, principal of Manurewa High, has just told @Breakfaston1 that 10% of the school's students haven't returned post lockdown. And roughly 100 of those young people were senior students who've taken supermarket & courier jobs (etc) to help keep their families afloat. .
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A shout-out to Wendy Petrie, who (after the split rosters of Level 3) is just beginning her last night as a permanent One News presenter. Wendy's staying on at TVNZ, working across all programmes (which is so good), but this is the end of a long, great run. Go, Wendy P! You rock!.
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This is an essay on child poverty, years in the making. It's the first I've time I've worked with the @1NewsNZ digital team in my new role. Please read (and watch) it. Or listen to it. (Thank you.). What matters more than how our children are living?.
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Dear Everyone Who's Offered Such Kindness Over The Past Months, just to say I'm going to RNZ. Details, & journalism, follow! Thank you, all!.
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This is just out. I'd love you to read it. A story of journeys. Roadies with my bestie, Tim. And my own journey to better understand the profound & ongoing impact of colonisation, versus the weightlessness of (my) privilege. We can do better. If we try.
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日本、どうもありがとう.Nihon, dōmo arigatō. Thank you, Japan. Wonderful team, wonderful spirit, wonderful fans, wonderful rugby. Heads high. You've made this RWC magic. 🇯🇵.
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Really proud to say my sister's production company (Somesuch & Co.) produced this. And the recent Gillette ad. Same director, too - Kim Gehrig, an Aussie. Both women now based in LA. Go my sis (and Kim and Timmy Nash). Super proud of you. Love from your big bro'. @Somesuchandco.
Nike and Serena Williams sent a powerful message about 'crazy' women during the 2019 #Oscars — Here's the full commercial
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I'll just rewrite that for New Zealanders. Football Ferns win against England, for the first time ever!.
England Women suffer loss to New Zealand in final World Cup warmup @SuzyWrack
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This is @davidfarrier & me, taken by our friend, @incorrect_pin. I first met David when he was a student. He was brilliant, even then. Since then, he's made Tickled, Mr Organ, he's launched Flightless Bird, & so much more. What a lovely, clever man. ❤️
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For generations, the AB's response to apartheid was to support it (& practise it) by touring South Africa with no Māori players. 1928, 1949, 1960 - no Māori picked. None. 1970, Māori made "honorary whites". It's a disgraceful history. Leadership is about more than winning. .
TJ Perenara pauses his post-match interview to show respect to New Zealand fans in the crowd performing a Haka for the All Blacks, following their win over the Springboks this morning. Top class stuff. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Please listen to this brilliant young woman. The remarkable Aigagalefili Fepulea'i Tapua'i, telling a big truth, that we do really (all) need to hear.
Too many students are being forced to leave school as an 'act of sacrifice and love' to support their families - Aorere College head girl Aigagalefili Fepulea'i Tapua'i says the problem's only getting worse - full interview:
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I feel like this parody account has gone too far now. It's disrespecting the Office of President.
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!.
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. a love of politics, in general. And his belief in it. And he hoped it was contagious. I know history will view him from many angles. They were complex & confusing times. But I remember that dinner, almost 30 years ago now, with gratitude and a kind of wonder. RIP Mike.
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5. I'll still visit them, but that Breakfast team is great!. Journalism matters. And when it gives space to people who don't have comms teams, or press secretaries, or send out media releases, it can sometimes even change the way we see the world. I so hope to do a bit of that!.
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Mōrena e te whānau! 😊. Saturday column time. Poverty, this week. Our poorest - and their striking absence from this election campaign. Please read it if you have time. (Thank you.). John Campbell: Poulton, poverty and the real way to get tough on crime.
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The single greatest tilt shot in the history of phone videos. A pristine day in Plimmerton, the view towards Titahi Bay, where @Tj_Perenara (the man) was born, and then the best conclusion since The Sopranos. Fresh.
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Delighted to be joining @Breakfaston1. Thanks for having me! Wishing @jacktame so well on @NZQandA. (Go Jack!) Will still do work from the field for @TVNZ. But I've missed daily shows, post @CheckpointRNZ. After 20 years of them, they must be in my blood?! Thanks heaps everyone.
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Given RNZ isn't sending anyone to the royal wedding, I've decided to act it out on my fingers. That's Harry on the left, obviously. Meghan has the long hair.
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Senior lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned
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Whilst I'm fond of The Proclaimers, and wish them very well, the next person who suggests I look like one of them will indeed be dropped 500 miles away and forced to walk home. Rick Astley is my stunt double - and never forget it.
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This is the story of the "unlawful bargain" that saw the trial of Pike River CEO, Peter Whittall, dropped. It's long & tough. But it REALLY matters. I keep asking you to read things (and you do - thank you). I would be so grateful if you read this. ❤️.
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Te Puea Marae (in Mangere) has now taken in, and found homes for, 480 people, since first opening their doors to the homeless in winter 2016. One mum, with three children, has even gone on and bought her own home. Interview with Hurimoana Dennis, TPM Chair, online soon.
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Scene - a dairy. Proprietor: "John Campbell. I watch you every night!". Me (to the young woman standing beside him): "Is that your Dad?". Young woman: "Yes.". Me: "He's a total bullshit artist, eh?!". Young woman (grinning with the joy of her Dad being sprung): "YES!".
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Thanks so much everyone. I'm very excited about my new job. But I really want to say how lucky I've been to make @CheckpointRNZ alongside @pipkeane, @cjwalbridge, @eveningburke, @Mich_Cooke, @zacflemng & @notklein. Such a fine, driven & brilliant team. I'm with them until Sept.
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People often (seldom) ask me - "hey John, what do you do on Friday nights?" . "Gee", I say, "thanks for asking. As a matter of fact, I like to count my monarch caterpillars."
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Tongan rugby team is checking out of their hotel in Apia. They're leaving Samoa to fly to Japan (for their game next weekend) - via Fiji then Korea. Everyone, even the biggest players, is travelling economy. Trying to imagine a Tier 1 nation being given that travel schedule.
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After 25 years at the Garnet Dairy, Azeeza & Salim are about to retire. The dairy's just along from the local school. A generation of kids have bought their walking-home treats here. I live a k or two away, but everyone nearby knows these two - and their beautiful smiles.
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You just can't, can you? (Beat it on a good day.). (All 47 of them each year.) . (Is it that many?)
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So, the Black Ferns beat England in front of 42,000 fans (INCREDIBLE), Samoa beat England in the RLWC (INCREDIBLE), Italy beat the Wallabies (incredible), Fiji really pushed Ireland (almost incredible), and France v South Africa was crazy!. Rugby, in all its forms, you're stoned!.
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Me and my beautiful Aussie mate.
It’s impossible to put into words how much my friendship with @JohnJCampbell means to me - so I’ll use emojis instead 😊💙🥰🎉😍👍🏻😘💕🥇🌟👨❤️👨 He is a national treasure, New Zealand 🇳🇿
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Very sad news, about a very fine man. Love to Richie's family, friends, colleagues - and to his other "family" in the Dunedin Study. Dunedin Study professor Richie Poulton dies, aged 61
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Prof. Michael Baker (on @Breakfaston1) has just reminded those of us in Tāmaki Makaurau of our responsibility to do everything we can to ensure we don't take Covid with us if we travel at Christmas. Get vaccinated, get tested, take care. We owe it to the people we're visiting.
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Everything I hear tells me this proposal is bad. And, having read, asked & listened (in a personal capacity), I agree. This amalgamation is effectively "stand over there" marginalisation. We all need more Māori voices, where people are, not congregated into a kind of exile.
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@patspellman @JessEtheridge I'd love it and would be really honoured. If you can't find anyone you'd prefer, I'm your man. I'll put it in my calendar, but I won't be at all offended if you get a better offer.
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Forgot my notes, buttoned my lanyard into my shirt, just said "batshit" on air, but other than that, I'm totally nailing it! GO YOU @BLACKCAPS!.
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At Hui ā Motu, in Jan, Kiingi Tūheitia said these great words:. “The best protest we can do right now is be Maaori. Be who we are, live our values, speak our reo, care for our mokopuna, our awa, our maunga, just be Maaori. Maaori all day, every day. We are here, we are strong.”.
#WATCH: Tributes flow for Kīngi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, the Māori King, who died overnight 👇 .
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Morena! . You know what time it is? (4.58, to be precise, but it's also) . wearing your #MidWinterSecretSanta superhero socks on air time!!!! . My ankles have never felt so invincible! . Faster than a speeding bullet, etc. Half man, half sock! . Go Secret Santa! 🖤💛
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@mccaffreydanie1 @FoxyLustyGrover Oh, Daniel. Why would you write that? And since when was making a virtue of ignorance a position worth adopting? Really? Notwithstanding the fact Te Reo Maori is an official language, our first language , and a taonga unique to us, why would you be strident about not speaking it?.
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Mo, the very good dog, has spent his life in Grey Lynn. We're visiting Wairarapa - staying beside a farm. He's bewildered. No houses. No traffic. Strange noises & smells. 🤣. Anyway, he finally braved it - and hit an electric fence!. He's now hiding in the spare room!. Poor Mo!
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Been away from screens all week, in Tairāwhiti, up & down SH35, and SH2 north of Wairoa. Home again. Plonked in front of Te Matatini 2023 - broadcast live on TV2 or streaming TVNZ+. It's SO good. And my brilliant colleagues are doing such a great job hosting it. Truly magic.
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Ever since I was a teen I've made mixtapes: crazily, obsessively (we all know one of those bores!😂), and only 0.00037% of them have ever been listened to. And now my friend @davidfarrier has really listened to one. I'm so grateful/chuffed I can't stop smiling. Thanks David.😊♥️.
it turns out @johnjcampbell has spent years curating a 9 hour playlist that is — truly — marvellous. i talked to him about his process and what lead him to undergo this truly gargantuan task:
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Mōrena e te whānau! 😊. Saturday morning column time!. This one is a plea for people to vote. Please share it with anyone you know who may not be voting, because low turnout denies one group, in particular, a voice. 🙏🏼. Voting matters. And here's why.
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Mike Moore story. When Mike Moore was Leader of the Opposition, and I was about the most junior political reporter in history, Bill Ralston dealt with the Government (for TV3) and (to give me purpose & a mission) assigned me the fractured and demoralised Labour Party. So, I. .
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Drop him.
#DearPrudie: My husband is obsessed with my skin problems. How do I get him to back off?
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Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo - champion four games running, undefeated in the medley at the Paralympics for 13 years. Incredible.
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This is our documentary on slash (forestry debris) and its impact on Tairāwhiti/Gisborne. If you don't live in these communities it's hard to understand how impactful it is. But in some places, it's breaking people. Please watch it, if you have the time.
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If/when Trump does lose, he'll never hear from senior members of the Republican establishment again. Trump's not their man. In closed, patrician rooms they whispered about him - condescension & embarrassment. Trump's value was his power. Without it, he'll be lonelier than Nixon.
Sources close to the White House say some senior officials inside the White House and Trump campaign are beginning to quietly back away from President Trump as election returns in Pennsylvania and Georgia come in
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Sarah Hirini. What a leader. On and off the field. @Sgoss10 . Go you @BlackFerns!. What a wonderful team!.
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Go Auckland, you totally nutty town. Ten minutes ago it wasn’t raining at all. Sheeee-it!
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Drop him.
In happier times. when Meghan first slid into my DMs. think it’s fair to say she’s probably not such a ‘big fan’ of mine now.
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TJ coming on for the last time! . The Grey Lynn Branch of the TJ Perenara Fan Club (GLBTJPFC) would like to say - ♥️ . A wonderful role model, on and off the field. Thank you, @Tj_Perenara. Tēnā rawa atu koe. "Ehara koe i a ia!". You rock! . ♥️.
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29 men die in a mine explosion. Evidence is hard to gather, but a piece of non-approved, non-certified electrical equipment is blasted out & retrieved. It may prove or disprove theories about ignition sources. A Royal Commission isn't shown it - and now it can't be found. Really?.
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Mana Moana was truly joyful and brilliant! What a totally sublime choir! The NZSO playing up a storm! And the crowd. the crowd! ❤️😍🙏🏾 Magnificent!
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I've lately been (much) visiting people in Auckland & Wellington Hospitals. This is to awhi the care they've received. Our (stretched) health system is full of paramedics, nurses & doctors who care so much. And whose skill & kindness makes such a difference. Thank you all. ❤
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In 2011, when we (NZ) won the RWC for the first time since 1987, this is what it felt like on the night. It's someone else's turn to feel this way next weekend. It's pretty wonderful - .
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I wrote about trains. It's not a love poem. (It's almost a love poem.). So you don't have to email me your steam train photos. (Unless you really want to.) . John Campbell: Why won't we invest in the rail services we need?
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Argentina so deserved that! . What an incredible performance by team coming out of hibernation! . Amazing!.
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Muriwai. (For your wairua.) . (What a beautiful afternoon!)
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Question: Does Mo like visting the beach? .Answer: ➡️
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♥️♥️♥️♥️.
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That half was the biggest shambles since my omelette in Standard Two manual.
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3. kinda busting to work in the field again!. I'll make specials/docos, work with the @SundayTVNZ and @1NewsNZ teams, visit Breakfast from time to time, and file digital stories. After three years as part of the Breakfast team, with Jenny-May, Indira and Matty, I'll miss. .
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Mind-boggling time. Brett Cowan from @ESRNewZealand, just told @Breakfaston1 (where the weather has seldom been delivered better) that you can fit a million-million Delta viruses on the head of a pin, but if 5 people have it in a pop. of 100,000 they can find it in wastewater.
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It's extraordinary, a generation into the 21st century, that even people as (reputedly) thoughtful as Lineker can peddle this kind of contempt, condescension & ignorance. English whiteness as normative. and other races/cultures as comedic or inferior or odd. Grow up.
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TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. JJJJJ!.
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@DrEricDing has just told us BA.2 is more different from Omicron BA.1 than the original (Wuhan) Covid strain was from Delta. And it's spreading faster. Quote: "You really, really need a booster"!. This is the Dr who first tweeted (Jan 2020) to the world how big Covid would be.
Epidemiologist @DrEricDing stresses the importance of the booster as we face a new variant of Covid-19 which is leading to more hospitalisations. He says the sub-variant, BA2, is 30-50% more infectious than the first Omicron strain.
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". we consider any strategy that tolerates high levels of infection to be both unethical and illogical. The UK Government must reconsider its current strategy and take urgent steps to protect the public. ".
Letter to @lancet on UK 🇬🇧 Govt decision to remove non-vaccine health measures to contain #COVID19 : “We believe govt is embarking on a dangerous and unethical experiment & we call on it to pause plans to abandon mitigations on 19 July 2021.”.@dgurdasani1.
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Thank you all. And the @CheckpointRNZ team, so brilliantly lead by @pipkeane. Big bosses @CarolHirschfeld, @strikerpaul, & all at @radionz.
Our Presenter of the Year for audio is @JohnJCampbell from Radio New Zealand (@radionz), congratulations John! 🏆 #AIBAwards.
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@HRMNZ2 Stop reading the comments. Please. Think of who deposits that vile hatred for people to find. Thwarted, miserable, misanthropic cowards. Unhappy and desperate to pass it on. It's nearly always anonymous. Honestly. Don't give them the pleasure of seeing you hurt. Believe in you.
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