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She handed it to me. I said, 'well, we know what we've got to do - we're just going to put up another bill that's completely the opposite, you know, because we know what they'll all do then, they'll just vote them both down.
I said, 'Just draft a bill! It's just a woman's right to choose! I don't care what it says! And so in caucus the next day Kidd was there to tell everybody that he had taken it upon himself to introduce this bill. I remember standing up and fighting it, and then I stood up and said, 'Well, there'll just have to be two then. This is the photo of all the women who'd voted together to get rid of Kidd's bill, and I thought it was a really great shot.
She was. And she became a minister. I was chairing the selection panel that chose Nanaia Mahuta way back then in the '90s, and I am so proud of that.
And that's about influence. It's funny, the first question you get was, 'oh, was it sore? It took a long time for the first ever Asian person to be elected. That was Hon Pansy Wong and opened the doors for all of us. And I think when people realise that New Zealand is in fact a diverse country, it is actually a multicultural country, and there are so many other diverse women and we need to actually celebrate that.
I'm really proud of the way various ethnicities live together side by side here in New Zealand. I realise that means a lot, too, to the people who've never had a voice, and that's what this place is about. We have ethnicities, people who collectively speak languages, and so when we make changes to make parliament more attractive we need to take that into account as well. For example, when I stood for the first time for an electorate seat and had the issue of billboards, I was told by well-meaning people that with my last name Radhakrishnan people weren't going to vote for me, and so there was some pressure to change and adopt my husband's last name - which is not much shorter but is an Anglo-Saxon name.
I spoke to to someone who was in Parliament at the time who said to me one thing. Because I didn't want to do it but I sort of had this pressure, and for a fleeting moment considered it. And so I talked to this now a colleague of mine, who said, 'how would that make you feel? But I think we do need to be mindful of being inclusive if we're truly going to be a House of Representatives.
It was really challenging when I brought my babies to Parliament. When I had my two children unfortunately it became part of the political discussion about whether it was fine to take time off when I had my babies. In terms of the parliamentary rules I was treated as an MP with a disability, technically - that was the category that I fell under when I took time off after the birth of my two babies.
I was based in Dunedin, which meant that with flights and everything, it was very challenging. And I think one of the turning points for me was getting up very early to go to Parliament and one of my children getting very upset that Mummy was leaving and doing one of those slow motion runs down the driveway, and I thought, no, after nine years, despite my party at that point going into government, that it was time for me to retire.
So it's very funny to retire when you're 40, but I knew that I wanted to continue working and do other things. Didn't have children. The number of people who would make comments around, 'well, you really can't understand the importance of family if you don't have children,' and I'd say, 'but I still have a family! That constantly surprised me. But it was a constant refrain, particularly on issues like civil unions or the section 59 legislation.
It was just like, no children, no right to comment. I once got an email from someone who actually said to me, you know, 'you haven't used your uterus as God intended, therefore I'm not going to listen to what you have to say and you shouldn't be in the decision-making position in our country. But it was just kind of ridiculous. Subject Subject.
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