In my experience of working in NZ, there is quite a lot of "she'll be right , mate" going on. At the venue I worked at, an amateur theatre company were putting on a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and they wanted to make Augustus Gloop fly up a tube. They had a hand built metal frame for the boy to stand in, attached to a rope which went over two pullys to the side of stage. On the other end of the rope they attached a large lump of concrete which they placed on a platform three metres high. When the wanted the boy to fly, they pushed the weight off the platform. When they wanted the boy to come back down, they grabbed a handle on either side of the block and carried it up two step ladders and put it back on the platform. When I asked where they got the concrete block from, they said "It's the one we use to fly people." When I asked what the parents of the child thought, they said "It's okay, his mum is the Director. True story...........