New Year Honours: Rotorua doctor Janette Irvine made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
30 Dec, 2020 05:00 PM
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When Rotorua s Dr Janette Irvine started medical school in the 1970s she was told she was only there to find a husband and then she would drop out. Many of her classmates, then made up of only 30 per cent women, had stuck their noses up at females in the profession at her time as they believed they had taken the spot of a more deserving man. It stuck with me. It was not how it was going to be. It felt as though I had to prove myself as a woman in a way and that was not right.
Gil Elliott: Long way to go before victims gain rightful status, says Sophie Elliott s father
27 Dec, 2020 11:30 PM
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Jesse Shane Kempson at Auckland District Court for the murder of Grace Millane. Photo / Michael Craig
Jesse Shane Kempson at Auckland District Court for the murder of Grace Millane. Photo / Michael Craig
Otago Daily Times
OPINION:
In January 2008, Dunedin woman Sophie Elliott was murdered in her home by a former boyfriend. Her father Gil Elliott believes New Zealand s justice system continues to favour the offender, rather than the victim.
On April 29, 2014, then Justice Minister Judith Collins organised a meeting at Parliament House in Wellington entitled the Leading Justice Symposium.