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Recently on Newsable we talked to Rugby league legend Adam Blair about his new Rugby League podcast, with Goran Paladin. We're excited to let you know that this new Stuff podcast, League Of Our Own, is now available! Take a listen to this first episode right here in the Newsable feed and if you like what you hear make sure you follow League Of Our Own, so you don't miss the next episode!

In this episode Blairy and Goran chat with former Warrior now high-flying Dolphin Kodi Nikorima.

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Winter illnesses are beginning to creep into our consciousness and children can be some of the worse hit. This year there are also real worries about the possbility of a measles outbreak. So what can we do to stay well. We talk to the Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre, Nikki Turner.

Peter Hook, the co founder of Joy Division and New Order, is touring New Zealand and he talks about making a life out of music.

Plus a great problem - too many kiwi.

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Peter Hook is the co-founder of Manchester bands Joy Division and New Order.

He is currently touring New Zealand with his band Peter Hook and the Light, starting off in Wellington on Thursday.

He spoke to Newsable about making the music he started as a teenager last his entire life and why the tributes to the lead singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis - such as the graffiti wall in Wellington - still mean so much, so many years after he died.

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A Black Power life member gives us his take on the government’s latest moves to crackdown on gangs

Can a worm actually get in your brain and eat part of it as Robert F Kennedy Jnr claimed happened to him? We talk to expert. Graham Le Gros from the Malaghan Institute.

A Kiwi designer finds a photo of himself in his own design on the online shopping market Temu, without his permission, plus how the way you sleep can affect your face.

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A new National Gang Unit has been announced by Police Commissioner Andrew Coster.

Gang disruption units will also be set up around the country , designed to disrupt and target offenders. 

The news was announced at a media conference in Auckland also attended by the Police Minister, Mark Mitchell

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How to protect yourself from the most common causes of house fires. We talk to insurance company AMI.

There's been a surge in job applications in Auckland according to recruitment agency Walter Rogers - could the public service cuts be to blame?

Researchers at Clarkson University in New York have made a break though in splitting the parts of the so-called forever chemical, PFAS

And after the proposed legal cap on the price of kebabs in Germany, we track down some of the wackiest laws from around the world

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Some 100,000 people - the same as the population of Dunedin - fled their homes in Rafah over the weekend as the humanitarian crisis deepens. We hear from the UN as Palestinians and aid workers alike face "sand, rubble, destruction and no safety". Plus: Pink sky at night ... power company fright - the dark side of the aurora explained. And why Germany's top politician is being skewered over kebab prices.

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The Finance Minister, Nicola Willis, plans to return to a policy of the past and bring back social investment.. But how does it work?

Netflix's Baby Reindeer is heading towards becoming one of its all time hits - why do we love it so much? Plus Jeff Wilson on top of the table clash between the Hurricanes and the Blues and it's the finals of Eurovision this weekend.

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It is 6 month's since the death of baby Ru in Wellington and there have been no arrests. His mother, Storm Wall, talks to Stuff about her son and what she says is her desire for justice.

Forget working from home, the latest is working from holiday. Do pigs really play a role in the fungal disease Kauri Dieback? And the latest from cicada-geddon in the US. We've had noise complaints, now the massive emergence of periodic cicadas is disrupting the food chain.

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Erin Patterson - the Australian woman accused of three counts of murder over the poison mushroom beef Wellington lunch has opted to have her case "fast tracked." But what does that mean and why is she also facing five charges of attempted murder? We hear from a court reporter with the Guardian Australia.

First-home buyers made up just over a quarter of the buyers in the first three months of this year. What's going their way?

Arthritis can hit young and old and the cost to society of lost work hours for them and their carers runs into the millions. Plus, the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar that is going on and on.

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