Joel Rowlands: a battlers’ candidate steps forward

Joel Rowlands: a battlers' candidate steps forward

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A series profiling Southland electorate candidates for the general election. Just five horribly familiar words – but for Joel Rowlands they carry an aching personal truth.“The system let her down.’’He lost his mother to depression-suicide a few years ago, the pair of them caught in a mental health system the previous Government had left “completely gutted’’.So there they were, a working man doing his level best to help his mum who needed support far […]

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