The Circular
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NCWNZ Internship - Farewell from Coco
A selfie at a visit to Rotorua hot pools. Photo supplied by Coco Clellend. Kia ora koutou, My name is Coco, and as some of you may know, I have been interning for NCWNZ for the past two months as the board administrator. A recent History graduate from the UK, I was looking for experience in international relations, gender advocacy, and politics. Combining this experience with overseas travel I thought would be an added bonus, which led me to NCWNZ,... -
CEDAW 2024
It was an honour to attend Aotearoa’s CEDAW review in Geneva on behalf of NCWNZ. It was a long stretch between reviews with COVID and a lack of funds making the UN reflect on how it does things. But the CEDAW Committee of elected experts in gender matters was alive and fiery and brought impressive understanding of New Zealand to their questions. In the first week I attended the International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Global to Local training alongside... -
Suffrage Day event on women in construction
The National Association of Women in Construction NZ (NAWIC) in partnership with the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) hosted a panel of industry leaders and role models in Wellington on Suffrage Day 2024. The topic was "We Belong - Women Pioneering the Future in Construction." Panellists were Prof Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) an architectural historian and head of Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning; Beryl Anderson ONZM, NCWNZ; Antoinette Howard, a BCITO apprentice; and Alice Carmody, Director... -
NCWNZ Life Members at AGM 2024
A photo of those NCWNZ Life members attending the Annual General Meeting in Christchurch: (from left) Beryl Anderson, Rae Duff, Christine Knock and Christine Low. -
Suffrage Day event in Hamilton
Some photographs from Hamilton's Suffrage Day event at Zenders Cafe, Sunday 22 September 2024. View of guests enjoying afternoon tea. -
Suffrage Memorial Presentation by NCWNZ Manukau Branch
(l-r) Judi Goldworthy and Christine Knock Christine Knock, NCWNZ Life Member, approached Papatoetoe War Memorial Library to see if they were interested in the Manukau Branch of NCWNZ undertaking a presentation at the Library regarding the Auckland Women's Suffrage Memorial at Khartoum Place and Te Hā o Hine Place, in Auckland Central. The Library staff agreed, and so this was undertaken on 17 September 2024. -
Marimari film
The Wellington Branch of NCWNZ had a fantastic time co-presenting an encore screening of Marimari with P.A.C.I.F.I.C.A. at the end of August as well as interviewing the people behind the film for the Conversations with Wāhine podcast. From left to right: Mele Wendt of P.A.C.I.F.I.C.A., Sophie Kelsall and Katherine Dickerson of NCWNZ, Evelyn Kunda, Director of the film, Paul Wolfram, and Eleonora Bello of NCWNZ. -
Presentation by Trish Lindsay ONZM for Suffrage Day
“Where you are is where you are meant to be,” is the encouragement given by Mordecai to his cousin Queen Esther, wife of King Xerxes during a crisis in Persia around the year 750 BCE. Those words seemed to epitomise the various stages in the life of Trish Lindsay ONZM, as she related them to a gathering of around fifty women, including a group of secondary students, as the NCWNZ Southland Branch celebrated 131 years of women’s suffrage. Trish said,... -
Mt Albert Women's Memorial Sculpture
Ōwairaka, Statue of a Cloaked Woman, Alice Wylie Reserve, Mt Albert, NZ. Photograph by Rich Greissman, September 2024, used by permission. In Jill Pierce's The Suffrage Trail: A guide to places, memorials ad the arts commemorating New Zealand women (1995) on page 31 is a description of a sculpture erected in the Alice Wylie Reserve in Mt Albert, Auckland in 1995. According to Pierce, the women of Mt Albert had fundraised for eighteen months to pay the artist for a suffrage... -
NCWNZ Past President Janet Hesketh QSM, CNZM
This is the first of a series of articles focusing on the NCWNZ Past Presidents Oral History Project with interviews by Carol Dawber in 2016. See the introductory article in The Circular at "NCWNZ Past Presidents oral history interviews from 2016" (August 2024). Janet Hesketh at Celebrating Women reception, Government House, Wellington, on 26 November 2013. From Wikimedia Commons. Janet May Hesketh née MacKenzie QSM, CNZM, was the President of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ) from...