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About one-third of Dunedin women signed the petition, a higher percentage than any other city. [38] New Zealand's first women's trade union (the Tailoresses) was created in Dunedin in 1889. From the late 1880s onwards middle-class reformers and worker activists investigated poor working conditions in Dunedin.
Infanticide in 19th-century New Zealand was difficult to assess, especially for newborn indigenous Māori infants. Resultantly, many New Zealand women who might otherwise have been sentenced to penal servitude or capital punishment had their sentences commuted to the lesser charge of "concealment of birth" under the Offences Against the Person Act 1867.
The release of Moriori from slavery in 1863 occurred via a proclamation by the resident magistrate of the Chatham Islands. [6] In 1870, a Native Land Court was established to adjudicate competing land claims; by this time most Māori had returned to Taranaki. The court ruled in favour of the Māori, awarding them 97% of the land. [6]
By demanding that men take responsibility for the right of women to walk the streets in safety, New Zealand feminists deployed the rhetoric of white slavery to argue for women's sexual and social freedom. [108] Middle-class women successfully mobilised to stop prostitution, especially during the First World War. [109]
Heni Materoa Sunderland QSM JP (née Brown; 13 October 1916 – 15 July 2008), affectionately known as Nanny Heni, was a Māori kaumātua (community leader) in New Zealand. . She stood up for women's rights in her community and she represented her community in establishing their rig
In 1889 New Zealand's first women's trade union (the Tailoresses) was founded in Dunedin after the release of the Sweating Commission, [40] had shown that for women employed in the clothing factories 'sweating' was endemic. [41]: 239 Labour manifestos in the 1880s demanded the exclusion of Chinese as they were seen as working for low wages.
Wanhalla is of Māori descent, and affiliates to the Kāi Te Ruahikihiki hapū of Kāi Tahu. [1] She grew up in Rolleston, [2] and was educated at the University of Canterbury, completing a Bachelor's degree with honours in 1999, followed by a Master's degree in 2001, titled Gender, race and colonial identity : women and eugenics in New Zealand, 1918–1939. [3]
Anderson, Atholl (1983), When All the Moa-Ovens Grew Cold: nine centuries of changing fortune for the southern Maori, Dunedin, NZ: Otago Heritage Books; Anderson, Atholl (1998), The Welcome of Strangers: an ethnohistory of southern Maori A.D. 1650–1850, Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press with Dunedin City Council, ISBN 1-877133-41-8