Stuff

We're kind of almost like a city-state in a lot of ways.

We have the oomph and the power to do stuff for ourselves, but New Zealand's politics are such that actually a lot of those kinds of things are actually controlled very centrally out of national level of government, and we don't have a state government.

So it's sort of the national government and the local government, and there's no layer in between.

It creates some particularly unique issues given Auckland is basically like a primate city, it's so much bigger than the rest of the country.

Because it was so new and so outside of pretty much everybody's expertise and such heated conversations in the public and in the media.

So a lot of people used, including some other elected members, used quite violent language about it.

So they'd talk about it being, you know, it was a war on the suburbs to, have more intensity allowed around town centres and along bus routes and train lines and stuff.

One of my colleagues described it as, she didn't use these words, but a form of sexual violence, which I found highly offensive.

You can catch our content all over the place on at Aotearoa Rugby Pod official channels, whether that is on social media, whether that's on YouTube as an audio podcast as well.

You can catch us on stuff.co.nz. That's a great place to get us as well as on Rugby Pass.

We can get those statistics.

Of course, we're coming to you here from Aotearoa.

New Zealand were adventurous.

2015, New Zealand were very adventurous and they won it.

But that might have also been, Bryn, because they were the best at the conservative stuff too.

If

We don't know much about the circumstances of this company where there was a notice of insolvency yesterday or the day before, I think, this latest company.

But in that instance, what I've seen in reports, forgive me, I think it was on stuff.co.nz, reports from customers there was they had paid a deposit, a substantial deposit, the one I saw was around $13,000 just at the deposit.

So that sounds like it was going to be they own the equipment models.

Yeah, so that may be different.

So we're seeing the really traditional ones that we see in other companies.

Billing issues, like I said, touched on before.

Often there's a promised rate for exporting stuff to the grid or selling or importing electricity.

Have those been honoured? Have your bills gone up? If so, why? We can look at those, the setup you've got.

Of course, you can catch us on an audio pod as well.

Get us at stuff.co.nz and also at Rugby Pass where you can catch those statistics and make sure that you tune in to watch or get here to Eden Park for that Bledisloe Cup test.

Hopefully it's going to be an absolute ripper.

We'll catch you soon.

Episode one of season two is so close.

But in the meantime, here is a third and final piece of other stuff.

that we're dropping in the feed while we make sure that Ali says season two sounds and looks

as good as it can.

Again, we've had a riffle through our back catalog some years ago when Adam and I were still working at stuff and we hadn't actually yet made a podcast together.

Adam asked me to help out with the editing of a podcast he was working on.

It was about people's lived experience of mental health.

Cut to the gills.

front.

And online at stuff.com.

Stuff.co.nz.

Yes, the House of Wellness banner is easy to find.

And, of course, some of you might get it in your papers every now and again as well.

Oh, yeah.

Stuff.co.nz.

Yeah.

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