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On the money: Kate Sheppard and the making of a New Zealand feminist icon

By Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury

This Suffrage Day, September 19, we remember Kate Sheppard as a heroine of the movement. But we should also remember others who paved the way, even if they don’t have a banknote to their name.

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