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Prostitution

Events In History

25 June 2003

The Prostitution Reform Act was passed on a tumultuous night in Parliament, with the public galleries filled with supporters of both sides of the debate.

Articles

A frontier of chaos?

Meeting with Hongi Hika, by Augustus Earle

In the years before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, relations between Māori and Europeans were marred by a number of high-profile incidents. Read the full article

Page 7 - Kororāreka

The missionaries divided the Europeans who came to New Zealand in the early 19th century into two groups: the agents of virtue (themselves) and the agents of vice (almost everyone

Women Together

Ladies' Committee of the Canterbury Female Refuge

The Canterbury female refuge, or 'Linwood Refuge', was established in 1876 as a provincial government institution in what became Gordon Street, Christchurch. Read the full Women Together Essay

New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective

Workers in the sex industry were one of the latest groups to organise themselves formally into collectives.  Read the full Women Together Essay

Nurse Margaret MacNab talks about brothels in Wellington