Overlooked for decades, the house where the women's suffrage campaign was launched finally becomes a public landmark.
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We now know how the father of New Zealand's suffrage pioneer died, and it raises fascinating questions about what drove her morally and politically.
New Zealand was the first nation to grant women the vote in 1893, but during the pre-war years enduring prejudice against women in politics outweighed any support for women to stand for parliament
125 years ago today women in New Zealand were the first to win the right to vote. Why did this global first happen in a small and isolated corner of the South Pacific?
