Dunnies Down Under

Television (Full Length) – 2001

The idea of women going to the toilet in a department store was that no one would know as they walked into Smith & Caughey's doors what they were going to do ... they were assumed to be shopping or taking tea.
– Historian Dr Caroline Daley on a lack of public toilets for women in Auckland in the early 1900s

New Zealanders have always been masters of invention or bloody good imitators. So it's no surprise that by now we have worm composting dunnies, adobe temples, solar powered bogs, hobbit houses, wacky WC's, artistic outhouses, public conveniences, waterless toilets and, of course, the long drop.
– Presenter Ginette McDonald

Well, it's a business that won't go out of date.
– Barry Lucinsky on why he started a portable toilet business

As dunnies go, this is not too bad. There's a bit going on here . . . the plastic bag protecting the spare paper and roll.
– Kevin Male, author of The Dunny Door and Some More, gives presenter Ginette McDonald a tour of a long drop