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Andrew Dobbs

Andrew Dobbs

E tū union delegate and long-time Carter Holt Harvey worker in Tokoroa, New Zealand, featured on the podcast Zombie Towns: Everything I Missed.

Sep 27, 2026

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or
3:03
whatever you want to call it.
3:05
It's sort of like going to work in a ghost town.
3:08
It's going to be a 23-year-old habit to break getting up and driving to work at least four days a week in the same place for 23 years.
3:21
He would stay if Tokoro gave him the opportunity.
3:25
All my family, my immediate family, my two daughters and my mother and my sister, we all live in Toke.
3:32
So sort of up sticks and move, yet moving away from the entire family, that's not my current plan.
3:41
Moving out of town's not, I wouldn't say it's a never option, but it's not the number one option.

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