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Playing pool in the parliamentary Members' lounge

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Labour Members of Parliament Dorothy Jelicich (left) and Mary Batchelor play pool in the Members' lounge in 1975. Women were not particularly welcome in this space. Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan pressed for an area of the lounge to be devoted to newspapers and magazines, but she got only a tiny screened-off corner.

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Dominion Post Collection
Reference: EP/1975/2033/24A
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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Playing pool in the parliamentary Members' lounge, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/playing-pool-parliamentary-members-lounge, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated