14 Oct 2021

Sex workers told to go back to Auckland

From Nights, 10:20 pm on 14 October 2021

Two sex workers arrested in Blenheim have till 5pm tomorrow to get back to Auckland where they belong. Several other suggestions that sex workers have been breaching borders in lockdown have come to light in relation to Northland's move to Level Three. So how has Covid changed the job of sex workers? And what is forcing them to take risks? Dame Catherine Healy from the NZ Sex Workers Collective discusses this with Karyn Hay.