Alice Snedden’s Bad News vs NZ Rugby’s culture of silence

The Spinoff Daily, Tuesday October 18

Oct 18

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Today on The Spinoff, Toby Manhire sees a mayor about a job, Chris Schulz meets a man making megabucks selling metal birds online and Michael Andrew talks to the first graduates of a programme teaching prisoners to code.

But first, an episode of Alice Snedden’s Bad News five years in the making.

In the season finale, the comedian takes aim at rugby culture in Aotearoa, and what NZ Rugby is doing to combat toxic masculinity and right historic wrongs. The All Blacks are a cultural institution in Aotearoa, so why, for example, have they still never fronted a domestic violence campaign? Featuring NZ Rugby CEO Mark Robinson, sports journalist Dylan Cleaver, criminologist Dr Lynzi Armstrong and former first XV player Joe Daymond, this episode reveals just how pervasive the “culture of silence” around rugby in Aotearoa really is. No spoilers, but let’s just say this is not the first time Alice Snedden has tried to make an episode about rugby…

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