# Fran Wilde

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Episode 3

In this episode, the former Labour MP who introduced the Bill, Fran Wilde, talks to Chief Human Rights Commissioner Stephen Rainbow, who was a young gay man supporting the movement in the mid-1980s. They discuss the courage of those who supported the Bill publicly, often at great personal cost, and…

Rights & Realities: Remembering 1986 - Coming soon

Forty years ago, on 9 July 1986, the Homosexual Law Reform Act ended the threat of prosecution for gay men and opened the door for progress - a watershed in Aotearoa New Zealand's human rights history.  Rights & Realities: Remembering 1986 is a new five-part series that looks at the events leading…

Stephen Rainbow: Homosexual Law Reform, Free Speech and 1986

In 1986 Stephen Rainbow marched with HUG, Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays, while living as a married father who had not yet come out. Forty years after the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed, he joins Dane Giraud to argue that the reform was, above all, a free speech fight.Rainbow describes a country …

Edge of the Abyss Review

EP. 218 *Spoilers begin around 26:00* Time for a book review! Rebecca Roanhorse gives us a spectacular second entry in the Reign of the Empire trilogy with “Edge of the Abyss.” Set in the year before the events of Andor season 1, it sets the stage for the politics and spycraft of the show, but als…

Audiobooks Network Review Podcast Episode 29: Interview with Fran Wilde (9-13-17)

Sarah speaks with Fran Wilde, author of Horizon, the final book in the Bone Universe trilogy.  In the conclusion to this series the characters have to find resolution to the collapse of their city, homes, and way of life, while figuring out how to work together with the many factions that have foug…

The Panel with Verity Johnson and Ed McKnight

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Verity Johnson and Ed McKnight.   First up, councils moved "heaven and earth" to make the government's amalgamation deadlines, and are furious that any change has now been deferred until after the election. South Wairarapa Mayor Fran Wi…

Dame Fran Wilde discusses push for change in local elections

Councils around the country are looking to follow Auckland in scrapping postal voting for local elections. Auckland councillors have voted to bring back in-person voting for the 2028 local elections, becoming the first council to use polling booths since 1992. Local Government New Zealand wants tha…