Over the course of the last 50 years, it has been Labour that made the best fist of remaking itself to fit the expectations of the huge number of women who embraced the ideals of the feminist movement.

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...