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Di Landy, Katrina Biggs, Deb Hayes & Sarah Henderson Talk UK Ruling, Casey Costello & What it Means for Midwifery in NZ.
Face-Off - Casey Costello & NZ Women vs the Midwifery Council - Two Weeks To Back Your Winner! (Video Below). The last week has been a...

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Apr 212 min read


HERO - Because you can't spell it without 'HER'.
Madame Gisele Pelicot is a hero. We are living in times where a husband can advertise and sell his unconscious wife’s body to all and...

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Nov 4, 20244 min read


More Public Consultation on Midwifery! (& a Thistoll-Note)
There is good news from the front in the battle for Midwifery! The Regulations Review Committee have made a number of recommendations to...

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Oct 25, 20243 min read


MWK at New Zealand First AGM
Māna Wāhine Kōrero attend their first political party conference, by Di Landy On the weekend 11th- 13th October I had the pleasure of...

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Oct 25, 20243 min read


MWK vs. the Midwifery Council of New Zealand
For two years, we have been actively opposing the Midwifery Council of NZ's Revised Scope of Practice of a Midwife, which uses the word...

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Oct 14, 20244 min read


Michelle Uriarau & Women's Action Group: 250 Police Officers Required
Q: How many police officers should be needed for 30 women to speak safely in public? A: None. Michelle Uriarau and WAG returned to...

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Aug 19, 20241 min read


Carrying the Torch for Our Foremothers: MWK speaks to the Law Commission
Below 1) Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia, Māori Suffragette and the first woman to speak at the Kotahitanga Parliament, specifically to request...

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Aug 19, 20245 min read


Di Landy at Inflection Point: "We are who our Tupuna called for".
At the Inflection Point conference in Wellington earlier this year, something special was in the room. It's hard to put words to; just...

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Aug 19, 202410 min read


A Year After Kellie-Jay: Michelle Uriarau, co-founder of MWK & Women's Action Group Australia, spoke out again at Melbourne Parliament.
Today is the 25th of March, one year to the day of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull's visit to Albert Park, New Zealand, and a few days after ...

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Mar 25, 20246 min read


It is by women and by land, that the people are given life.
The truth is that there is no haka, no waiata, no mōteatea, no whakataukī and no whakairo that proves that diverse gender identities ever ex

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Mar 9, 20244 min read


The Mayor, the Ministers, the Media and Māori
“Ka rongo i te ia o te aroha, he ngākau māhaki” (To feel genuine intentions is to understand a charitable heart). 2024 has started with a...

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Mar 1, 20249 min read


Di Landy, Quillette, Fictionalizing Māori History in the Name of Gender Ideology
Visit Quillette to read Di's report.

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Jan 19, 20241 min read


Mana Wahine Korero to the Midwifery Council of NZ
November 2022. In which we object to the Midwifery Guidelines in no uncertain terms. This letter protesting the removal of the words for...

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Jan 19, 20241 min read


Grieving for my Culture
Dianne Landy, 8th of May, 2022 I'm sat here, wondering where and how did it all go so wrong, so fast? Children are being sterilised at an...

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Jan 19, 20242 min read


Di Introducing Thank a Terf Day 2023
6th May 2023

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Jan 19, 20241 min read


Di's response to the claim that Whakatane represents a 'trans man' "Born in the Wrong Body"
Tuia te rangi e tū iho nei Tuia te papa e takoto ake nei Tuia te kaupapa ki te whai ao Ki te ao mārama, hui e, taiki e! Ko Takahue te awa...

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Di's first interview on Reality Check Radio with Maree Buscke
Dianne Landy: Co-founder Mana Wāhine Kōrero discusses what's going on with Māori Politics. 17th May 2023 Click below to listen to Di's...

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Jan 19, 20241 min read
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