112 years ago today (or yesterday, because of the dateline) New Zealand became the first country in the world to enfranchise women.
Appropriate, I suppose, that we now look likely to have a three term Labour government led by Helen Clark.
This is good. When people ask me to express the differences between New Zealand and America I sometimes say that the difference is that New Zealand has a childless agnostic woman (with a different last name than her husband) as Prime Minister. It just wouldn't have been quite the same contrast with Don Brash.
Correspondence from other nations defending their right to be regarded as the world's oldest democracy eagerly entertained!
Posted by robe0419 at September 19, 2005 11:29 AM