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… one of the most important issues confronted by the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s. The three main … collectively – a reminder of their origins in the women’s liberation movement. Rape Crisis The first permanent rape …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… was to help stave off the defeat of Sir Joseph Ward 's Liberal government by voting for it on a no-confidence motion. He normally supported the Liberals from then on. Defeated in the 1914 election, Atmore …
Type: Biography
… was determined to remain politically independent of radical liberalism, and to insist on the necessity of collective … sponsored by the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council, the Liberals on the council prevented the Socialist Party from …
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… He was a member of the Knights of Labor and the Canterbury Liberal Association, and served as both president and secretary of the Progressive Liberal Association. In 1896 he stood unsuccessfully for …
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… was secretary of the women's section of the Canterbury Liberal Association, and in 1895 was on the committee of the … in Auckland, where she appeared at a meeting of the Women's Liberal League in February 1898. A newspaper report … were eligible to do so. She campaigned as an Independent Liberal, advocating abolition of the Legislative Council, …
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… to start a daily newspaper in Wellington to support the liberal cause. He was persuaded not to persevere. Back in … against the Marton-based candidate John Stevens for the Liberal nomination for Rangitikei. The Liberal party's …
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… dressed and accustomed to success. When John Ballance 's Liberal party took office in January 1891, Ward became … on 6 August 1906. Given the broad electoral base of the Liberal party, Ward's caucus of nearly 60 MHRs in a House of … minister, which he did on 28 March 1912. Meanwhile the Liberals, who survived by the Speaker's casting vote, chose …
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… sport. Immigrants imported trout and salmon species and liberated them. Fish species Brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) … success. Some coarse fish species, such as perch, were also liberated – but brown and rainbow trout were soon the …
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Part of story: Freshwater fishing
… of his department to further the private interests of a Liberal supporter. Anderson won the seat. The defeat of a … was re-elected in 1911. When the Reform Party defeated the Liberal government in a parliamentary vote in July 1912, he …
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… Baume was elected to Parliament for City of Auckland as a Liberal and in 1905 won the Auckland East seat. He was … for causing political trouble. Baume later intrigued with Liberal country members to counter Fowlds's single-tax …
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… expectation that the association might foster mutual trade liberalisation. However, by the early 2000s this had not … in world trade grew after it embarked on economic liberalisation in 1978. In 1988 China took 4% of New …
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Part of story: Overseas trade policy
… campaigns. Most dissenters voted for the Whig (later Liberal) party. Anglicans and Presbyterians, though normally … – atheists, rationalists, agnostics and freethinking liberals – resembled in their activist style the dissenters …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… from Victoria, Australia. Seven other deer species were liberated: wapiti, sika, sambar, rusa, axis, fallow and … are found mainly in the central Southern Alps. Moose were liberated in the Hokitika River valley in 1900, and in Dusky …
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Part of story: Hunting
… former religious beliefs. Her humanitarian principles and liberal outlook motivated her to help found the Sex Hygiene … influenced by her friend Maud England. Her politics were liberal: she supported the New Zealand Labour Party, the …
Type: Biography
… but came forward unsuccessfully as an independent with a liberal land policy in 1890. In 1892 he contested a crucial … was widely regarded as the first major test of the new Liberal government's popularity. Bell as local notable was …
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… Smith’ through his fierce protectiveness of his property. Liberations Smith retained his childhood fondness for coarse … according to his own records, from 1964. The earliest liberations involved perch, which had first been introduced …
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… Laws Commission. His recommendations were followed by the Liberal government, and Crown pre-emption was to prove far … as a member for City of Auckland. He served in the Liberal government for three years as chairman of …
Type: Biography
… politics. He was elected to Parliament as an independent Liberal member for Napier in 1908 and retained the seat as a Liberal and then an independent Reform member until 1922, …
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… To reinforce the benefit of fertiliser to grass growth, the Liberal government subsidised the rail transport of lime, … harmed the development of a pip-fruit industry. The Liberal government passed the Orchard and Garden Pests Act …
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Part of story: Government and agriculture
… education board. In 1896 Hornsby stood for Wairarapa as a Liberal, losing by 333 votes. His supporters petitioned, … by the lessee's own efforts. Hornsby's relations with the Liberal party leaders were often prickly. He supported the …
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