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… and kicked it into the stands. Some churches espoused liberal positions. The Methodist Church was the first New … woman bishop in the world to head a diocese in 1990. Liberal religious leaders also played important roles in …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, was a remarkably liberal measure which laid the basis of modern New Zealand …
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Part of story: English
… seats’ abolition in 1902 because an alliance between the Liberal Party and the Māori MPs had held power since 1891. …
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Part of story: Ngā māngai – Māori representation
… the 1890s that a nationally organised political party – the Liberals – fought and won an election. Face-to-face contact …
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Part of story: Elections and campaigns
… In 1905 Frank Morton became a staff writer. His liberal views on sex and other issues stirred up debate and …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… Common guppy, sailfin molly and swordtail Three poeciliids liberated into the wild by aquarists now live in …
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Part of story: Coarse fish
… fresh [sudden flood] that occurred after Tuesday’s rain has liberated great numbers of logs, and the various mills now …
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Part of story: Bush trams and other log transport
… people championed their rights. From the 1970s the women's liberation movement saw greater attention given to sex …
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Part of story: Sex work
… State intervention Such conditions led Richard Seddon’s Liberal government to initiate a state rental housing …
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Part of story: Housing
… farms Refrigerated shipping made small farms viable. The Liberal government was elected in 1890 with a policy of …
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Part of story: Sheep farming
… of its proprietor, G. W. Russell, at various times Liberal member of Parliament for Riccarton. Low valued the … active politician but, although he initially followed the Liberal line of the paper, his own political inclinations … weeklies, the conservative Weekly Press and the Liberal Canterbury Times. Observing that the latter was …
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… quickly concluded that the social reform programme of the Liberal government had broken down. The absence of a labour … Wherever he went he preached that the palliatives of the Liberals, including arbitration, had failed; that craft …
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… of traditional Christian belief against the inroads of liberal scholarship and doctrine. In 1968 he published a book criticising the liberal views of the Presbyterian theologian Lloyd Geering. …
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… the Broadcasting Standards Authority. The backlash against liberal censorship As the film and literature censors became … of the community believed the system was becoming too liberal. In 1970 a petition signed by 49,000 people calling …
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Part of story: Censorship
… He was equally disparaging of aspiring middle-class liberals who promoted themselves as friends of labour. If … election. He declined, but publicly supported the emerging Liberal party. Lomas was personally a beneficiary of the …
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… idealist who disliked censorship on principle, took a liberal attitude. After working to achieve amendments to the … system that positioned New Zealand as a pioneer of liberal film censorship. He applied the R certificate, which …
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… His evangelical background was sharply challenged by liberal theology and the ravages of the depression. The … and adapt to changing social circumstances. Respected by liberals and evangelicals, he worked to create a church that …
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… with Tom Skinner, president of the Federation of Labour. Liberalisation or ‘Think Big’? Under Noel Lough, secretary from 1976 to 1980, Treasury advocated liberalisation as the best way of surmounting economic … investment, deregulation of the meat-freezing industry and liberalisation of restrictions on shop trading hours from …
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Part of story: Treasury
… version of their Old World forefathers. In the Liberal era of the late 19th century, New Zealand was seen …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… built in the heart of the city, and the liquor laws were liberalised. Once virtually deserted at night and at …
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Part of story: Wellington region