Manaia Stewart

Terrible speakers.

Bloody tinny, isn't it?

Terrible.

Anyway, so yeah, so community's something that's missing.

And I think for me at my stage of life, generally where that sense of community comes from is once you've got kids, then they're at the school, like Ruta, you're down doing the basketball thing.

That's right.

Become a part of the community, but when you're a transplant from somewhere else, you're living in a community where you don't have kids, you don't really feel that sort of attachment.

So me and a mate of mine are looking to install ourselves amongst the community.

Oh, okay.

This could be difficult.

We might be getting ahead of ourselves a little bit here.

We'd like to become pillars of the community at some point.

That's our long-term aspiration.

That is a massive, that's a lofty aspiration you've got there, Manoel.

Yeah, and phase one of the plan is making ourselves regulars at the local pub.

Okay.

You've got to start with achievable goals.

Okay.

And that's one I can see myself sticking to.

Okay, so your pathway to becoming a pillar of the community is... Centre it around piss.