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Overworked, Under Pressure:

Dunedin’s emergency services are like the roofs of Dunedin flats: they’re not built to support everyone at once.  Already short-staffed, overworked, and overwhelmed by the pressures of Covid, emergency responders and campus caretakers are buckling under the pressure of student drinking culture. It is an unnecessary pressure, and it is one that will not easily be changed in a city like Dunedin, a city that probably has a BAC...

2022’s Righteous Riceball Review

Ah, the riceball. There is nothing intrinsically special about a riceball. It is but simple ingredients, tucked in a pod of rice shaped into the simplest possible shape. However, there is something special about the riceball at the same time. It’s a quick lunch you could grab on your way to doing bigger and better things, and holds within its curve the potential for both greatness and intestinal cramping. There’s been what seems...

Putting the ‘Job’ in Blowjob: Post-Pandemic Sex Work in Dunedin

“Work is especially different when the going gets rough –  during the convoy protests, when fuel prices spiked, when society feels the pressure – we can really tell. We are the outlet for that. It’s 2022, if you beat on your wife she’ll leave you, so hire a hooker and do it to her instead.”  The way we view ‘the oldest profession’ has evolved a lot in Aotearoa over the past half...
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