Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from New Zealand’s only specialist human rights radio show Speak up – Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton. It is 125 years since New Zealand became the first country…
125 years ago – on 19 September 1893 – New Zealand women won the right to vote . Registrations closed six weeks after that date for the next election on 28 November. This would have been fairly exciting for New…
New Zealand women gained the right to vote on 19 September 1893, so this year marks 125 years since women won the right to vote. The Suffrage 125 celebration is being led by the Ministry for Women, New Zealand Minitatanga mō…
Monday 19 September 2016 is Suffrage Day / White Camellia Day – On 19 September 1893 women in New Zealand got the vote, and the white camellia was the symbol of the suffragists. Here in Christchurch, there’s a celebration honouring…
Today is Suffrage Day. It’s the day we set aside to commemorate and celebrate the efforts of women (and men) who, 122 years ago campaigned long and hard so that women could have the right to have a say in how…
120 years ago today – 19 September 1893 – women in New Zealand got the vote. And 20 years ago today this Christchurch landmark – the Kate Sheppard Memorial – was unveiled. Kia ora to all the women who fought…
Wednesday 19 September 2012 is Suffrage / White Camellia Day. You can see the names of those who signed the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Join Women on Air for their celebration of Suffrage Day – and 20 years of broadcasting!…
Come along and find out if your great-granny was a suffragist! The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is celebrating Suffrage 2010 in style. With the support of Archives New Zealand, Christchurch City Council and Wellington City Council, they’ve organised a programme…
Sunday 19 September is Women’s Suffrage Day – a celebration of New Zealand women getting the vote in 1893. The Kate Sheppard Memorial in Oxford Terrace celebrates some of our pioneering sisterhood. Another group of leaders are Christchurch’s own Women…
You might be fed up with Labour and National and the Winston sideshow as the election on November 8 looms, but before 1893 women didn’t get a vote – and the first woman MP Elizabeth McCombs didn’t get into Parliament…
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