Kia ora koutou,
Welcome to the last Circular for the year! I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Randolph for her continued dedication to bringing you the NCWNZ news and views every two months. It is always a pleasure for me to read about the happenings in our organisation, and I trust you find it equally enjoyable.
The Circular is one way we tell our stories to the world. The AGM and the NCWNZ Annual Report is another - thank you to all those who attended and who voted at the AGM. The amended Constitution that you passed will be uploaded with our Incorporated Society re-registration in the new year, so your participation in the AGM was essential.
The Gender Attitudes Survey launch was another public way of telling the world about who we are and what we care about, and we received a lot of media attention with that event. (See the NCWNZ press release here - and our YouTube video here.) We also tell our stories through the webinars that the Action Hubs run to raise awareness, the ongoing stream of considered submissions to Parliament and government agencies, and the speech and essay competitions, suffrage sites maintenance, local election candidate meetings, and a myriad of other branch activities.
It has been a hectic year all around the motu - islands, what with defending Te Tiriti o Waitangi, protesting changes to the Equal Pay Amendment Act, supporting the Cook Island NCW at their conference as they prepare to report to CEDAW, and the usual IWD and Suffrage Day events. We even had Carin, one of our Board members, connecting with our Swedish counterparts! I, for one, am looking forward to slowing down for a bit, taking some rest and recovery time.
If I told you the number of days until Christmas, would that excite you or scare you?? But whatever your summer holiday traditions are, I sincerely hope that they involve leisure time spent in the company of those you love, and doing the things that sustain your wairua – your spirit.
Look after yourselves and each other, whānau.
Suzanne
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