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.
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Reference: EP/1975/2033/24A
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'Playing pool in the parliamentary Members' lounge', URL: https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/playing-pool, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 16-Jul-2014
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