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… British tradition. Although the colony’s franchise was liberal for its time, not everyone could vote. Women, most … different electorates was usually held on different days. A liberal franchise? New Zealand’s franchise was considered … Attorney-General William Swainson thought it ‘the most liberal that has ever been granted to a British colony.’ 1 …
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Part of story: Voting rights
… circulation of any paper in New Zealand. Leys was an ardent liberal and friend of leading Liberal politicians, and a supporter of George Grey. In 1892 …
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… the notorious former priest Charles Chiniquy in 1880. Liberal advocates Although Protestantism was changing … Protestants had a more open attitude. A prominent early liberal was Samuel Edger, who arrived in New Zealand as …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… involved with the Forward Movement which attempted to match liberal Christianity to the complex conditions of … in 1892. Her father's death in 1895 was, seemingly, a liberating factor. She wrote of his influence: 'He was a …
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… vigorous campaign for the Ashburton seat, referring to the Liberals' programme as 'socialistic nonsense'. He was … and returned to Scotland. That year he was elected as Liberal MP for Orkney and Shetland, and bought a London …
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… into early contact with political life, it was his more liberal mother who influenced the direction of his own … depression. He won Whanganui by just 27 votes. Elsewhere, Liberals and their trade unionist allies in the cities fared …
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… 375. Local hero The purchase of large pastoral runs by the Liberal government in the 1890s allowed people of modest … originally named McKenzie, and the street names commemorate Liberal politicians. The township began in the late 19th …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… The rise of political parties In the 1890s, when the Liberals established the first formal political party, … and the other main conservative party, United (formerly the Liberals). Two-party political structure In the 20th …
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Part of story: Parliament
… in 1890. At that time economics was seen as part of a liberal education and a preparation for a life of public … Economics had previously moved from philosophy and liberal education towards public administration, and …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… a fundamental change of immigration policy, the more liberal residence requirements that were introduced in 1947 …
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Part of story: Chinese
… Act 1885 John Ballance, who was later New Zealand’s first Liberal premier, passed another Land Act in 1885. It created … refrigerated shipping in 1882. From 1889 the newly formed Liberal Party reasserted the ideal that all aspiring to be … were entitled to land. The most influential figure in the Liberals’ land policy was John McKenzie, whose outlook had …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… incomes and spread the risk that these fail. Financial liberalisation – unregulated markets – was the result. This … to 1988. His brand of new right economic thinking involved liberalising international trade, deregulating industrial, … reform and tax system reform. His views echoed Gladstonean liberalism in the Victorian era. These policies were …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… editorship of William Pember Reeves, strongly supported the Liberal Party. Reeves became one of the most prominent ministers in the Liberal government. Wellington’s Dominion , on its … forms of socialism, including the ‘state socialism’ of the Liberals. The Dominion supported the opposition Reform Party …
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Part of story: Media and politics
… subject before giving an opinion'. Perceval now became Liberal party whip, and a successful chairman of committees. … and he published a booklet, Land in sight , explaining Liberal land policy. In September 1891, when Perceval was … to reassure British bankers and politicians about the Liberals' 'socialist' reforms. The governor, Sir William …
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… Returned in 1873, he helped effect a split in Reid's 'Liberal party' which destroyed it as the leading force in … him in office in 1890 but he soon fell out with the new Liberal government after being overlooked for the chairmanship of committees, and he abandoned the Liberal–Labour ticket on which he was elected. In the House, …
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… was finally ousted in 1891. Two years later – after the Liberals, led by Richard Seddon , won the election … the beginning of party politics in New Zealand and saw the Liberals come to power and strengthen their hold on people's …
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… in 1881 and Waikato in 1887. He was finally elected as the Liberal member for Riccarton in 1893, with a comfortable … premier, Richard Seddon , whom he accused of letting the Liberal reform programme stagnate, attracted around him a small group known as the Progressive Liberal Association. In 1896 he tried to form them into a …
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… print 250 copies an hour. Henry Blundell had promised a liberal policy and had said that the proprietors would not … moderation in expressing their views as journalists. That liberal policy was pursued faithfully: in the view of the …
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… prolonging the depression, and was strongly opposed to the Liberal government which he accused of purchasing popularity … social legislation hindered self-reliance. In the Liberals' turbulent populist democracy, he wrote, 'the …
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… styling himself an 'independent conservative' of liberal views. Members of the government party helped with … on 7 August 1888 as part of an attempt to unite Vogelites, liberals and the radical followers of Robert Stout and John …
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