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R a n d o m C e n t u r y Broadsheet Akuhata publication date 1 august 1990 number 180 2 herspective, 3 letters, 4 fronting up 6 broadcast sneer journalism, demolition, WONAAC AK, sex abuse tax, first couriers, breast milk, anti-pregnancy vaccine, beneficiaries, racism, election blues, pregnancy counselling 16 making her own feminism Helen Wernham Pat Rosier 20 home away from home Manying Ip on NZ Chinese Pat Kipping 24 pesticide plague Lynne Wright chemical activist Pat Kipping 28 a passion for writing Fiona Kidman Pat Rosier 30 frances porter leaving in the gossipy bits Claire-Louise McCurdy 33 arts Whoopi, a girl’s gotta eat, lethal/zusters, honeymoon killers, enemies, a love story, artists community, mihipeka, out of the frying pan, healing wise, listing 39 what’s new, 40 classified, 41 the gripes of roth cover: Helen Courtney NEXT MONTH elections women’s refuge poetry Policy is made by the Broadsheet collective : Helen Courtney, Cathy Hall, Lisa Howard-Smith, Pat Kipping, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Pat Rosier, Lisa Sabbage, Shirley Tamihana, Athina Tsoulis, Lewis Williams. 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We ask readers to let advertisers know you saw their product in Broadsheet. 2 BROADSHEET AUGUST 1990 MARGOT, METRO AND NORTH Metro and North and South sneer at lesbians, As a Pakeha lesbian employed as a social A N D S O U T H and the manner of their persistently shrill worker in the Department of Social Welfare, I The June issue of Metro magazine had a nasty refusal to face facts about male violence.