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The Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa, is a museum dedicated to lesbian histories in Auckland, New Zealand, located off Karangahape Road at 1A Howe Street, Freemans Bay. It is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to lesbian culture and history.
The Ministry for Women (Māori: Manatū Wāhine) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the New Zealand Government on policies and issues affecting women. It was formerly called the Ministry for Women's Affairs ( MWA ), but it was announced that the name would be changed to Ministry for Women in December 2014. [ 3 ]
Formed in 1951 in Wellington, following the mass movement of Māori from rural to urban New Zealand, the league's original goal was to preserve Māori culture through their native arts and crafts while also promoting fellowship and cooperation among various women’s organisations. The league's formation was a direct result of the 1945 Māori ...
Bailey in 2010. Judy Ann Bailey ONZM (born 1953) [1] [2] is a former news presenter for ONE News, the highest rated evening television news programme in New Zealand.Bailey joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (now Television New Zealand) in 1971 and worked as a reporter on news and current affairs programmes.
"So that women may receive the vote", text of Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia's address to the Kotahitanga Parliament in 1893, website of the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage; He Māngai Wāhine – The Women's Voices a New Zealand On Air documentary ( 5.15 – 15.05 minute mark) Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia’s parliamentary chest
TEV Wahine was designed and built for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, and was one of many ferries that have linked New Zealand's North and South Islands.The first regular interisland ferry service between Wellington and Picton began in 1875, [8] and the first Wellington – Lyttelton service began in 1895 with the Union Steamship Company vessel SS Penguin. [9]
Debbie Anne Ngarewa-Packer [2] is a New Zealand politician, iwi leader and activist. She is a Member of Parliament and co-leader of Te Pāti Māori alongside Rawiri Waititi, [3] [4] and is the chief executive of the Ngāti Ruanui iwi.
Wahine, any of several ships named Wahine. TSS Wahine (1913–51), a New Zealand inter-island ferry that also served in World War I and World War II TEV Wahine, a 1966-built New Zealand inter-island passenger ferry that foundered in Wellington Harbour in 1968