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Member 7167 
"What Good Fortune For Governments That The People Do Not Think" - Adolf Hitler.
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
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Very sad. He has been on my playlist since the 70's.
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Pies4shaw
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^^^^ Leon's been on everyone's playlist since the 60s - they just didn't always know it.  |
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sherrife 
Victorian Socialists - people before profit
Joined: 18 Apr 2003
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It's a sad day, Trevor Grant died this morning of asbestosis (thanks again James Hardie).
He was a lifelong pies fan, a great writer about the intersection between sports and politics and spent his last years campaigning for justice for Tamil refugees fleeing the genocide in Sri Lanka.
Please read this wonderful article he wrote on being diagnosed with cancer last year:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-05/grant-i-was-blindsided-by-cancer/7299940
He will be remembered.
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
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watt price tully
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Sad. Condolences to his family
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MagpieBat
Joined: 27 Nov 2010
Location: Brooding in a cave... somewhere... maybe...
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The OP actually did include quite a bit of detail in it, but a formatting error was jamming the works, giving the impression of a blank post.
The matter has been resolved...
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Well done. All i saw was a blank post.
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Piesnchess
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very sad, I recall his sports articles well.
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London Dave 
Jete jedna pivo prosím
Joined: 16 Dec 1998
Location: Iceland on Thames
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| sad news, i read a lot of his stuff over the years... terrible thing cancer.. |
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sherrife
Victorian Socialists - people before profit
Joined: 18 Apr 2003
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Wasn't just cancer, it was asbestosis, ie. murder by James Hardie executives. They should all be in jail.
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006
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A frirnd of mine worked as a compositor for years in those buildings and died in his early 60s. Because he had no kids or wife James Hardie gets a freebie
RIP Trev and Brian
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Joined: 22 Jun 2004
Location: John Wren's tote
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Poor Bloke , Condolences to a fellow Magpie.
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sherrife
Victorian Socialists - people before profit
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| ronrat wrote: | A frirnd of mine worked as a compositor for years in those buildings and died in his early 60s. Because he had no kids or wife James Hardie gets a freebie
RIP Trev and Brian |
I'm sorry to hear that mate. Did you read Trevor's article I posted in the thread? It's beautiful, written with people like your mate in mind.
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006
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| sherrife wrote: | | ronrat wrote: | A frirnd of mine worked as a compositor for years in those buildings and died in his early 60s. Because he had no kids or wife James Hardie gets a freebie
RIP Trev and Brian |
I'm sorry to hear that mate. Did you read Trevor's article I posted in the thread? It's beautiful, written with people like your mate in mind. |
I did. Brian died and we never found out why. I was overseas at the time.
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Media lije Trevor are past history. They wait for something to fallout of social media now and then take sides.
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London Dave
Jete jedna pivo prosím
Joined: 16 Dec 1998
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| sherrife wrote: | | Wasn't just cancer, it was asbestosis, ie. murder by James Hardie executives. They should all be in jail. |
Yup, agree 100%. I guess Trevor was another who perhaps wasn't "pure of heart". |
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