Public Address 24/12/04 - Tired But Happy

Friday, 24 December 2004, 11:32 am
Column: HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

PUBLIC ADDRESS 24/12/04 - Tired but happy

Tired but happy | Dec 24, 2004 10:29
Russell Brown's Hard News

When you've been doing something as long as I've been doing Hard News in its various forms - 13 years, that is - you wonder if you haven't already said everything you want to say about Christmas and the Great New Zealand Summer already...
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