Monthly Archives: January 1995

With Hard Labour: the Case Of Alice Parkinson (review)

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by Carol Markwell, directed by Phillip Mann and Jo Kahl, Suter Gallery Theatre, Nelson.

Listener: 21 January, 1995.

Keywords: Literature and Culture;

A central problem in women’s suffrage year was how to recognize all women and not just the good and the great: ordinary women and their experiences, like falling in love, getting pregnant, and getting jilted. Real enough events to tens of thousands of women, illustrative of the economic and biological asymmetry of the genders, but largely ignored officially or, if remembered, deplored.

Righting a Wrong

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Listener: 21 January, 1995.

Keywords: Regulation & Taxation;

Roger Douglas’ tax policies have come in for unfair criticism from the Business Roundtable. The attack first appeared in a letter by Roundtable member Alan Gibbs, which accompanied a report the BRT had commissioned, on the burden of taxation. Gibbs wrote that the “estimates are high. The bucket transferring wealth (sic) via government is certainly a very leaky one – at least at the margin!”