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Ruia Morrison, tennis champion and trailblazer for Māori in sport.
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Wanda Messam changed the lives of more than 300 children through foster care.
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Dame Margaret Sparrow was a trailblazing doctor and advocate for legal abortions in New Zealand.
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Beatrice Tinsley was a world-renowned astrophysicist and trailblazer for women in science.
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Dame Ngaio Marsh was a Queen of Crime and best-selling novelist.
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Nancy Wake was a WWII hero and the Gestapo's most wanted person.
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Anne Barry was the first female firefighter in the British Commonwealth.
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Helen Thayer is a world record-setting adventurer and the first woman to walk solo to the magnetic North Pole.
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Georgina Beyer was the world’s first openly transgender mayor and Member of Parliament.
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Dame Whina Cooper was a celebrated Māori leader and advocate for Māori rights and welfare.
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Helen Clark was New Zealand's first elected female Prime Minister and the first woman to head the United Nations Development Fund.
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New Zealand's first female trade union leader and first female cabinet minister
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The first female Pasifika judge and champion of Pasifika women in law
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The first Māori woman to be elected to New Zealand Parliament
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The first Pasifika woman to be elected to New Zealand Parliament
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The first woman to study law in Australasia and the New Zealand's first female lawyer
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Trailblazing politician and working mother
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The first Māori Queen and champion of Māori language and culture
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Auckland's first female mayor and New Zealand's first female Governor-General
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New Zealand's first female Chief Justice.
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New Zealand's first female Prime Minister
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First Māori woman to gain a law degree and be admitted to High Court
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The first female mayor in the British Commonwealth
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New Zealand's first female Speaker of Parliament
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New Zealand's first female MP
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New Zealand's first female District Court judge
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The first wahine to address the Kotahitanga Parliament
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The youngest female head of state in the world and trailblazer for working mums
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The first woman to become a High Court judge in New Zealand
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