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Campaign trail threats and abuse reinforce the need to protect NZ’s women politicians – before they quit for good

  • Written by Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury

A female candidate slapped after a public debate, another whose home was vandalised, a man trespassed for entering the same house, shouts and jeers directed at another woman candidate for using te reo Māori – the 2023 election has certainly had its uglier moments.

But reports of abuse, threats and violence on the campaign trail...

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