Greg Fleming

And then I think Tasmania might have Sparkler Day or something.

And anyway, I think if I'm remembering this rightly, but the day that they have is in the middle of winter.

Yeah, one of the only arguments around Matariki is it's in the middle of winter.

You're not having to wait till 9.30 at night when the kids are asleep to leave off the fireworks because you've finally got darkness.

And secondly, you don't have the fire hazards.

And that's true.

And so, yeah, I did give that some thought.

I was like, well, just as I was thinking before, hey, is there some way that we could find a middle ground by maybe just restricting the days that fireworks can be legally let off?

Then I looked at, OK, well, maybe we could instead move fireworks those four days to another time of the year.

We considered all of those, but no matter how we looked at them, all the evidence to us fell squarely on one side of the debate and led us to the conclusion that we made.

Yeah, I'm standing now in my driveway.

And yeah, we've lived in this house for 18 years, got five kids that are now just about all left school.

And I'm looking over at the place that we used to be our fireworks in our little backyard there.

And it was fine because we would aim the fireworks towards school.

over the fence of our neighbour, because it's a large 1,600 square metre section, and there was one single little house on there surrounded by mature trees, and so it was the perfect place for barks to go and random fireworks to land and stuff.

But as of three years ago, there's now 27 townhouses on that section.

So if we were to throw fireworks over there...

We'd have a different kind of blaze going on.

So it has changed.

All sorts of things have changed about how we live together, and particularly around our cities and the like, which again was yet another thing I looked at.