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TEAMWORK Maori and Pacific Island Netball FEMINIST FANNY Broadsheet's Own Agony Column OUR PUBLIC FACE The Media on Homosexuality and Rape ARTS DOESNT ANYONE REALLY LISTEN A poem by Gillian Edwin REVIEWS Narratives of Women: The Auckland Film Festival/ Shona Boys: Painting-ConstructionT An A ngel at my Table/The Price of Salt/Daughters of a Coral Dawn/The Clever Princess/ Desire: The Politics of Sexuality/The Sexual Dynamics of History/Top Girls REGULARS LETTERS and Fronting Up POLL EMICK and SET VIEWS BEHjND THE NEWS Beyond ANZUS/Australian Feminist Visions/Hell-Hole-Cum-Haven: Housing Evictions in Tauranga/Robin Morgan To Visit/Stanley Roche SISTERS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE Wet T-Shirts in Tauranga/ Singing For Peace in Napier/Rape Hui at Hangarau Marae HIT LIST COMMENT Val Upton on Women and Punitive Welfare WHAT'S NEW? 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BROADSHEET annual subscription $NZ24, overseas surface $31, overseas airmail Europe $43.50 America and Asia $39, Australia and South Pacific $33. Permission must be sought before articles may be reprinted. Broadsheet is on file at the Women's Collection, Special Department, Northwestern University Library Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA. the GPO as a magazine. Broadsheef, September 1984. 1 the ANZUS issue. I am not proud Jones doesn't always get the that TVNZ then scrapped the in­ coverage he wants. terview in favour of Bob Jones Karen objected to what she cal­ bvd-mouthing Gordon Dryden led the "consistent bandwaggon- and so prevented New Zealanders ing" of the Values Party during hearing one of the most remaka- Petra's visit. Values is extremely LETTERS proud to have brought Petra to ble women in the world being cen­ PETRA KELLY began seven years before Die sored by our very own Television New Zealand, and we are also Grunen with the same ideals and New Zealand. proud to be part of the worldwide Dear Broadsheet, “Green" movement. Doesn't As organiser of Petra Kelly's visit the same level of support but we I hope this letter will not be cen­ Karen realise that Values was in­ to New Zealand I should like to have failed to win seats. The first sored byBroadsheet and will give strumental in getting the German reply to the gratuitous attack on step necessary for progress here is your readers more understanding Green Party established, and our Values at the end of Karen Man- to change the electoral system to of the political facts of life. international "green” links makes gnall’s report on Petra Kelly (July/ proportional representation so Alan Wilkinson that the Government cannot act in us unique in N Z politics? August issue). Co-leader, NZ Values Party As for Values people "co-opt­ Petra Kelly was brought to New the interests of only 40% of the ing and massacring" the Maori Zealand at a very substantial cost voters and so that new ideals and new voices can win parliamentary I would like to comment on sev­ language, we don't claim to be borne by the relatively small perfect. We try our best to prom­ number of dedicated people who representation. eral matters raised in Karen Man- Karen Mangnall implies that gnall’s article on Petra Kelly in ote Taha Maori, and we are the are the backbone of the Values only political party which gives Party. She is a most outstanding Values has severed links with the your July issue. equality to all minority groups (in­ woman, but with her dedication "grassroots movements". 1 know Karen mentions that she had cluding men). It is not easy to be­ and intensity of commitment is in that will raise bitter laughs from heard that Petra wanted to talk many Values people who feel that only to people from alternative come fluent in a second language, serious danger of physical col­ and Values members would rather lapse. While she was in New Zea­ many of these movements bet­ and feminist journals. She had rayed Values at the first sound of a heard wrong. While Petra cer­ use little Maori than none at all. If land she worked from 9am till 3am our pronunciation is astray we despite suffering from major piece of window-dressing waffle in tainly prefers talking to such would certainly welcome correc­ health problems. Each night she their direction from National and people she appreciates that to get tion. spent several hours on the phone Labour. her message across to the uncon­ Finally I would like to say that, dealing with her West German It is a fact that Values has never verted it is important to talk also having been privileged to spend political duties on top of the work weakened its stands on any of the to mainstream media such as the some time with Petra during her of researching and recording the causes of environment, justice Herald and Listener, and she was Auckland visit, I feel that Karen's issues in the places she was visiting and equality that it is based on.It is very happy to do so while in Auck­ article was a very fair portrayal of and preparing for her speeches also a fact that many pressure land. The Herald printed an excel­ her, but Petra didn’t come all this and interviews. groups have capitulated to Natio­ lent if limited article on Petra on 1 way on her own. Gert Bastian, al­ For this kind of effort she has nal and Labour in the false belief June 1984. Unfortunately it was that these parties can be influ­ relegated to their "Mainly though less fluent in English, gave been accused of fostering a leader­ some interesting insights into Ger- ship cult, not by grass-roots Die enced to change the distribution Women" page, but even Bob Grunen party members, but by of power in our society without those who feel themselves com­ political confrontation. It is a fact peting with her. Immediately be­ that many members of pressure fore her Australiasian visit she groups in New Zealand are not ac­ resigned as one of the three Die tually willing to change their polit­ Grunen spokespeople in favour of ical allegience in the interests of a group of six women who had put the cause they profess to support - themselves forward as a "take it or and they do not wish to believe leave it” package. She com­ they must do so. mented that only two of these Karen Mangnall may be sur­ women are feminists (the others prised to know that we in Christ­ having entered Die Grunen via church told Petra Kelly about the peace movement with Church Broadsheet, gave her our own connections) and that she felt personal back issues to read and their tactics were an unacceptable keep, and urged her to speak with "male power play”. you. It is hard not to feel that yet She has written of the comfort again Values support has not been she finds in the links she has made fairly reciprocated. with like-minded political move­ The charge that Values co­ ments outside West Germany. opted “taha Maori” for it’s own With all the jealousies and criti­ cause could equally be levelled at cisms she has to suffer within her Broadsheet - we and you tread a own party it is a pleasure for her to fine line between showing our be reminded that she and Die sympathies and being accused of Grunen do serve as an inspiration opportunism. Petra Kelly was not and as an example to the rest of impressed with the sexism and the world. violence of the Maori cultural She is also acutely aware of heritage. Let none of us pretend political realities. “We started Die that we have all the answers or all Grunen because we realized that the virtue. we could get 400,000 people in I am proud that Values brought Europe marching for peace but it Petra Kelly to New Zealand.