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Oh, happy times? Saw a john trip over his trousers once—splat!—right outside the door. Laughed me guts out, precious! Surprisin’ bit? Them old Victorian brothels—fancy as hell, chandeliers n’ all. Who’d a thunk it? “The world spins on,” like Malick says—spins right into muck, don’t it?

Formerly reporting on the world of early and silent cinema

Sex work is decriminalised in Aotearoa New Zealand and so brothels are deemed a 'businesses like any other' in the eyes of the law.

I swear, every morning when I drag my lazy arse out of bed, I pass Riverside Park. That park’s a quirky little slice of nature. You got the river – we call it Big Slither – winding past the park. Locals say it used to be a train route or something wild, right? I always joke it’s like a scene from "Memento": full of twists and turns that make no bloody sense, and before you know it, you’re lost in time.

Phelan to Focus on Navy Recruiting, Shipbuilding