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Payphones, men obsessed with them who live in Perth and New York, and a tiny town in Tasmania all have implications for the future of payphones — now free to use — in Australia, and (to a degree) the world.

Join Patrick McKenzie on a lo-fi spiral through this seemingly redundant technology, and how its fanatics interact with it today.

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Patrick McKenzie is a Media and Communications graduate from the University of Sydney. His obsessions include public transport and infrastructure, movies, and strawberry milk.

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