In the ongoing negotiation between public duty and private life, a Dunedin City Council member found herself speaking on local government reform from her bathroom, laundry visible behind her, as thousands watched online. The moment — gently corrected by the mayor mid-meeting — is less a scandal than a symptom: a small, human reminder that the digital transformation of civic life has dissolved the walls between the chamber and the home without quite resolving what that means for decorum. Dunedin has been here before, and the question it keeps returning to is one many institutions share — how do