All that Greymouth woman Brittany Kremers has wanted is to live a normal life and to look and feel normal, but she’s lived with pain and facial disfigurement for two decades after being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer as a child.
Brittany hoped a prosthetic would mean she could lead a more normal life, but ACC has declined her claim to fund post-surgery treatment. She remains in painful medical limbo.
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So now they get it that no one wants to ride a train where the destination is in some mythical place called Aotearoa. It’s not like everyone apart from sickly white liberals has been complaining about it for years.
Some journalists recent behaviour, legal threats, hidden stories and an ideologically captured regulator. The state of New Zealand’s media is akin to a Shakespearean tragedy.
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