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Stuff Explained is a podcast seeking to demystify complicated topics and make news more accessible, more relatable and more understandable.
They'll be everywhere in the next couple of months - polls trying to predict what our next government might look like. But how do people who aren't statisticians read polls, and get some useful data out of them? Join the Newsable team and a panel of experts for this special episode explaining polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to this Newsable / Stuff Explained crossover episode, talking Matariki. It's our country's newest public holiday so do we really know what it's about? Stuff Pou Tiaki Matua Carmen Parahi joined us to discuss all things celebrating the event, and discuss some of the reactions to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’ve hit December and the promise of a happy Christmas is getting closer, but so too is the strain. Everyone's tired, the cost of living's our of control, your aunty's a bit racist .. it's all too much. Psychologist Jacqui Maguire is here with tips so you can thrive this festive season, not just survive.
Cryptocurrency markets have been hit by turmoil - so is it a safe investment and are the predictions that it will be the money of future of money still valid?
Interest rates have gone up, house prices have fallen - could you be in negative equity and what can you do about it?
Australia's planning a referendum on a constitutional change giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a so-called "Voice to Parliament." How has this come about .. and will it actually get across the line?
Three Waters legislation to set up 4 regional water service bodies is inching forward, but does the public really understand why change is needed and what's being introduced?
It might be our national sport, but the rules are something of a mystery to more of us than we might like to admit. Rugby ref Maggie Cogger-Orr joins Stuff Explained to demystify some of the major rules of the game.
Small ghost monsters and witches at the front door .. and yells of trick or treat. It has to be Halloween - but is the whole thing just a commercial beat up, or does all the spookiness have historical roots?
90 million members, and one man making a possible bid for lifetime rule. The Chinese Communist Party National People's Congress is underway, so what impact could it have on the world's second biggest economy .. and further afield, on Aotearoa?
Global currency markets are on a rollercoaster, and the kiwi dollar's along for the ride. Why is there so much turbulence, and how might it affect you? Christina Leung from the NZ Institute of Economic Research joins Jess to explain.
Dr Mike Reid from Local Government NZ puts rate rises in perspective, and explains to Jess McCarthy why many people don't think local government even matters, despite it affecting more of our everyday life than you think.
Jess McCarthy talks to Dr Claire Charters from the University of Auckland about how a change in monarch could change relations between Māori and the head of state, and how republicanism could affect the future of Te Tiriti O Waitangi.
With independence movements simmering in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, will a change in monarch give them the boost they need to get out of the union? Jess talks to Stuff correspondent Andrea Vance, who's been in the UK for events since the Queen's death, and has previously reported from all countries in the UK.
Aside from the pomp and ceremony, there's a legal reason he needs to have a coronation. Dr Cindy McCreery from the University of Sydney joins Jess McCarthy to explain in our latest episode - as well as explaining why it'll take so long, and why it'll have no bearing on when we get a public holiday.
It's the job he's been waiting for his whole life, but in the wake of his mother's death, how will Charles III execute his role as monarch? Royal Commentator Phil Dampier tells us about the new King's hot temper, and what he'll do with rogue relatives.
Stuff Explained is a weekly podcast which seeks to demystify complicated topics and make news more accessible, more relatable and more understandable.