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… cheaper). In the 1970s Auckland and Wellington feminists ‘liberated’ their cities’ public bars. Storming the public … Victoria Tavern, they demanded to be served. ‘Pub liberations’ were one of many late-20th-century urban …
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Part of story: Men and women in the city
… motion, he reversed his stand and supported the Liberal government. Reform MPs accused Payne of having been … to the conservatives. In March 1912 Payne attended the Liberal caucus at which a new leader, Thomas Mackenzie, was …
Type: Biography
… but also because of ideological differences. As a left-wing Liberal parliamentarian, Pirani was involved in an attempt … Pirani supported an opposition vote of no-confidence in the Liberal government. Seddon became openly hostile to Pirani, …
Type: Biography
… to pay maintenance. By the 1940s most English-speaking liberal countries had developed universal child allowances. … for public housing in urban areas, and Richard Seddon ’s Liberal government became the first central government in …
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Part of story: Family welfare
… He almost certainly believed that this would supplant the Liberal party, but cannily refrained from saying so, hoping to force the Liberals to pay more attention to labour issues. As …
Type: Biography
… have one daughter. Politically, Bodkin supported mainstream liberalism with its emphasis on development, self-help and … ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1914, standing as a Liberal against the Reform Party MP Robert Scott. Bodkin …
Type: Biography
… by the late 1970s. Greater sexual freedom and the call to liberate women and men from a sexist society made this … to Miss and Mrs. From 1970 when the first Women’s Liberation groups were established, through to the 1990s, a …
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Part of story: Women and men
… the Legislative Council. From there they savaged the new Liberal government’s reforms. Onslow refused Liberal requests for compensatory appointments. He left …
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Part of story: Governors and governors-general
… troops taking Berlin. On 8 May 1945 Germany capitulated. Liberation of prisoners The end of the war in Europe meant liberation for over 8,000 New Zealand prisoners of war, …
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Part of story: Second World War
… sensational disclosures, and advocated a number of popular liberal and early socialist causes. Alfred Amory George was … small tradespeople, the emerging labour movement and the Liberal League of New Zealand (formed in 1906). He advocated …
Type: Biography
… few of these women died. Abortion law reform groups Women’s liberation groups supported ‘a woman’s right to choose’. … the New Zealand college’s constitution. Education Women’s liberation groups paid a great deal of attention to …
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Part of story: Women’s movement
… friend of T. E. Taylor, the prominent Christchurch radical liberal and prohibitionist who was elected mayor. Taylor … appointed an OBE. In 1919 Holland stood as an independent Liberal for Christchurch South and attempted to distance …
Type: Biography
… above their historically determined proletarian status and liberate the working class. He is ambivalent about precisely … will be ready someday to fulfil their historic mission as liberators of the nation's workers. By 1911 he had become …
Type: Biography
… brought directly from the UK or came via Australia. The liberation of red deer continued until 1926. Most came from … of the introduced deer ( Cervidae family). However, also liberated were fallow deer ( Dama dama ), originally from …
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Part of story: Deer and deer farming
… on his new audience. He was loosely associated with the Liberal government, but was happiest when in opposition. … behind the scenes after the war to forge an informal Labour–Liberal–Catholic alliance against the dominant Reform Party. …
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… election several months later political parties (Reform, Liberal) that supported participation in the war took 90% of … coalition government, with Massey as prime minister and Liberal leader Joseph Ward as minister of finance. …
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Part of story: First World War
… 1880s had matured into the country's leading advocate of liberal political ideas. He supported Donald McLean 's … very much loved. He was well read and fond of music. His liberal views deeply influenced his son. As a leader writer, …
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… in New Zealand’s relatively narrow political spectrum. The Liberal government (1891–1912) of John Ballance, a moderate … groups (as did Anglican Prime Minister William Gladstone’s Liberal Party in the UK). So did the early Labour Party, …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… politics. In 1895 he was elected president of the Auckland Liberal–Labour organisation and in 1896 and 1899 he stood … of his success to the arbitration system established by the Liberal government in 1894. Unions needed the services of …
Type: Biography
… candidate for Dunedin Central and defeated the sitting Liberal member, J. F. Arnold. He held the seat until 1935. … a strenuous Labour campaign and Sir Joseph Ward, the Liberal leader, speaking on behalf of Munro. From this point …
Type: Biography