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… onward New Zealand displayed a more tolerant, socially ‘liberal’ outlook. In 1986 a bill was enacted decriminalising … ideas about morality and those opting for a more liberal and tolerant approach. In the end, in line with …
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Part of story: Political values
… In 1889 Reeves said that he would follow any 'respectable Liberal' who became leader. Shortly afterwards John Ballance … to support Ballance's party, now calling themselves 'Liberals', in the coming election. The Liberals promised …
Type: Biography
… – like Ireland.’ 2 As the Yugoslavian regime became more liberal, emigration was allowed. In the late 1960s, 238 …
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Part of story: Dalmatians
… prices lifted rather sharply, signalling the end of the Liberal boom. The 1920s were a period of slow growth propped …
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Part of story: Economic history
… lawyer Oswald Mazengarb, the Reverend Jack Somerville, a liberal Presbyterian, and Lucy O’Brien, president of the …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… consignments of sheep and cattle for sale; and to make liberal advances when required’. Robertson left the business …
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Part of story: Stock and station agencies
… and children played on the farm. Growth in family farms The Liberal government of the 1890s broke up the great pastoral …
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Part of story: Farm families
… candidate. He later explained that he opposed the Liberal government's lease-in-perpetuity scheme, and he was … State socialism in New Zealand , a critical analysis of the Liberal government, was published. Stewart co-authored it … war service. Stewart was elected in December and he and the Liberal politician T. E. Y. Seddon subsequently paired and …
Type: Biography
… soon built a reputation as an effective adversary of the Liberal government. One of the most important lieutenants of … meant facilities for rural settlement, and lambasted the Liberals for failing to spend their public works budget. He …
Type: Biography
… largely failed when the price of oil fell in the mid-1980s. Liberalisation: the 1980s and 1990s Changing global … government in 1984 and another in 1990 unleashed vigorous liberalisation, promoting a freer market economy. Government … was a term used by New Zealanders to describe the dramatic liberalisation of the economy which followed the election of …
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Part of story: Economy
… Ballance unsuccessfully begged Tregear to stand for the Liberals in 1890. In 1891 Ballance, as premier, and Reeves , … of Labour, saw Tregear privately disillusioned with the Liberals and more sympathetic to a separate political labour …
Type: Biography
… land matters won him the post of minister of lands in the Liberal cabinet from 1891 to 1900. He is best remembered for … but McKenzie seized the opportunity to make it a symbol of Liberal settlement policy. The land acts of 1892 were … Political expediency played a major part because the Liberals were essentially a South Island government who …
Type: Biography
… movement for women’s suffrage; George Fowlds, a left-wing Liberal cabinet member and prohibitionist; George Hogben, … large audiences to their public séances. Many supported liberal causes such as women’s rights and socialism. Seventh …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… life was anything but quiet. Field had been elected as a Liberal but was, in fact, more concerned with constituency … by 21 votes. In 1914 Field defeated Robertson, but not as a Liberal: he had been so upset by the waterfront strike of …
Type: Biography
… the 20th century and into the 21st, Napier voters returned Liberal and then Labour party candidates in general … 1996, Ikaroa–Rāwhiti and Waiariki – traditionally favoured Liberal and – after the defeat of Sir Apirana Ngata in …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay region
… circles. Increasingly, however, he came to sympathise with liberal high church views, and once described himself as … whole deservedly, became respected for his wide sympathies, liberality and eloquence. He was noted, too, for his …
Type: Biography
… as a prophetic puzzle to be solved, in contrast to the liberals and modernists who viewed the Bible through the … as a means of fortifying their faith against the alleged liberalism of the theological colleges. A prolific writer, …
Type: Biography
… party; but by 1896 he accepted this need and praised the Liberal government's achievements to the sky. The ultimate … at fair wages? In 1899 Lister renamed his paper the Otago Liberal and one of his sons became the printer and …
Type: Biography
… equal to theirs.’ 1 Fishing for introduced freshwater fish, liberated into the waterways by British settlers from the …
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Part of story: Recreational sea fishing
… of English life. Between 1867 and 1879 blackbirds were liberated on the three main islands, where they multiplied …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds