The Star: September 02, 2021

This assignment began on
July 14 and was scheduled for a
fortnight, but once the Taliban
swept to power Charlotte,
who has also worked for Sky
News and the BBC, opted to
hunker down and document the
transition.
She led the questioning at
the Taliban’s first press
conference – championing
women’s rights. Her latest social
media post, made yesterday
around noon, was a re-tweet
of the Department of Defense
showing the last US soldier
leaving Kabul.
Bellis, who owned the Coachman
Inn on Gloucester St from
1972 to 1986, was unsure when
Charlotte would head for Doha,
or even better, Christchurch.
Her most recent trip home was
in January and see her father.
Mother Barbara lives in Auckland.
“I think she’d like to stay
and keep reporting. I’m not sure
exactly what the circumstances
are now, now the American
military have left,” he said.
In spite of anxiousness, the
74-year-old laughed when told
of a Instagram post Charlotte
posted for Father’s Day three
years ago, a photo of her on his
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welfare in Afghanistan
FAMILY SNAP: Bruce
Bellis and Charlotte
during a trip to Sydney
in 1989.
LIFTOFF:
Charlotte took
this image
of a military
transport aircraft
soaring from
Hamid Karzai
International,
three days after
a suicide attack
at the airport.
lap during a trip to Sydney in
1989.
“The more I see of the world,
the more I realise I had the
most insanely fortunate childhood.
Bruce is infamous in my
hometown of Christchurch - a
restaurateur, race car driver and
sheep farmer. I used to call people
as a young reporter and on
the other end I’d hear ‘oh you’re
Bruce’s daughter’. Has been a
hell of a reputation to live up to”,
the caption read.
“She was exaggerating,” he
smiled.
Mission accomplished, by all
media accounts.
NEWS 7
Warning to keep
household ‘bubbles’
safe and avoid injuries
WHILE THE majority of
Cantabrians continue to shelter
at home to keep Covid-19 at
bay, ACC has stressed the
importance of safe ‘bubbles’ as
housebound injuries escalate.
The number – and cost – of
home-related injuries reached
a five-year high in 2020, with
118,260 injuries requiring $171
million to treat.
From 2016 to 2020, there were
551,076 claims recorded, costing
an estimated $672 million.
Nationally, there were 4.9 million
claims for injuries around
the home accepted by ACC from
2016 to 2020, absorbing $5.6
billion.
Last there were just over one
million claims accepted, costing
$1.4 billion, an increase of $143
million from 2019.
ACC head of injury prevention
Isaac Carlson said it is
a challenging time for many
Cantabrians but he urged them
to be safety conscious during
lockdown.
“We want people to be doing
the things that they love
at home, but we also want to
collectively change our mindset
on preventing injury so we can
get through this period without
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serious injury,” he said.
“We know it’s chaos for many
families out there. Trying to
work from home and manage a
family during a lockdown is not
an easy time so we all need to
acknowledge that.
“But it’s important to think
about risk during this period so
we can all keep safe and avoid
preventable injuries.”
The 50 to 59-year-old age
group are most likely to be
injured at home, ahead of those
aged under nine.
Falls, lifting and carrying,
animal-related activities,
gardening, punctures and cuts,
twisting movements (back issues)
and collisions were the
leading source of claims.