Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So happy Suffrage Day. 125 years since New Zealand women were the first women in the world to get the vote.  For those a bit dodgy on their maths that was back in 1893. It seems amazing to us now that women were denied the mandate for more than 50 years after the signing of the treaty and the creation of modern New Zealand.So the week and the day have been a celebration of women. Today’s paper is wall to wall women and what I’ve liked about it is that they have concentrated on the trailblazers. The women who were first and it then makes you see how many achievements you weren’t aware of.And I was really chuffed to see our own Ricki Swannell named as one of the 125 trailblazing women of note. Rikki, our workmate, our friend but of course a trailblazer as the first female lead commentator in Rugby. What’s really notable is that, at the time, for all us at ZB it wasn’t notable. It was just Rikki doing what Rikki does best. Bit by bit we’re getting to the point that things shouldn’t seem so incredible because of