Suffrage 125 resources

Suffrage Day resources

Suffrage Day graphic

You are welcome to share our Suffrage Day graphic to help us celebrate the Suffrage 125 anniversary. We will be using this graphic in our social media channels and using hashtags: #SuffrageDay #suffrage125 #whakatuwahine.

Suffrage 125 infographic

A special infographic highlighting progress since New Zealand women achieved suffrage has been created, along with a timeline of milestones for women. You can also download a high resolution version of the files.

Download the infographic (low res, 612kb JPG)

Download the timeline (low res, 581kb JPG)

Download high resolution timeline and infographic  (816kb PDF)

Suffrage 125 and social media

You can follow Suffrage 125 on Facebook (/Suffrage125) and Instagram (@suffrage125). Feel free to tag us in your posts about Suffrage 125 celebrations, activites, events and shoutouts. 

Please include #suffrage125 and/or #whakatuwahine in your posts about suffrage-related topics.

Suffrage 125 pins

Official Suffrage 125 pins are available for purchase through the National Council of Women in the following ways:

• Bulk order requests can be sent to suffrage125@ncwnz.org.nz
• Packs of 10 pins can be purchased on TradeMe
• Individual pins can be purchased from the National Library Online Shop
• Pins are also available from Heritage New Zealand properties throughout the country

Suffrage education resources

You can find historical information about suffrage in general on our website, as well as more information for the context of this year’s celebrations led by the Ministry for Women. Other resources include:

• NZ History’s Suffrage 125 material on their website
• National Library’s He Tohu site which gives some detail around New Zealand’s history of suffrage
• Search the 1893 suffrage petition database on NZ History 
• A downloadable learning resource from 2017 on the Fight to Vote 
• Your Voice, Your Choice: Votes for Women, a downloadable teaching resource on suffrage from 2017 created by the Electoral Commission
• Information about the difference between Suffragists and Suffragettes

Māori women's rights, voting and democracy

• Māori women and the vote – the beginnings of national organising by Māori women
• Te Ara website is a great general source for info and biographies (you’ll find Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia’s biography here, too)
• Ngā Taumata by Ngatai Huata has portraits and essays
• Wāhine Rangatira by Angela Ballara – an article which recounts the history of Māori ‘women of rank’ from the suffrage era
• He Reo Wahine by Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla
• Māori Women and the Vote by Tania Rei (very limited availability)

Suffrage-related imagery

The Suffrage 125 symbol can be downloaded from our website along with guidelines for its appropriate use. PLEASE NOTE: other images that have been used on our website are not free to use. Other sources for reference and educational images include:

• A collection of suffrage-related images from the DigitalNZ website
• A collection of historic images of women from the Archives on Flickr

Images from these sites may not be freely available for use or available under Creative Commons licenses. Please ensure that you are crediting the images appropriately or acquiring the necessary privileges required for use.

Snapshot and posters

You can download these resources for print or distribution:

• Snapshot of our Suffrage History — an A4 snapshot of milestones from the suffrage era to present 
• A scaleable Suffrage 125 awareness poster 
• He Tohu Suffrage 125 and suffrage petition poster series (set of 3, 4.71mb)