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6<br />
Tuesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Our People<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
Memorable moments from nearly<br />
Dr Kate<br />
WE<br />
Dewes has been fighting to<br />
ARE<br />
keep New Zealand<br />
ON THE<br />
nuclear-free since her early 20s. She spoke to reporter<br />
Caitlin Miles about receiving threats for her work, sharing<br />
a memorable moment with the United Nations secretary<br />
general in 2011 and her plans to spend more time with<br />
her family<br />
MOVE AGAIN...<br />
Now that New Zealand has been with my first daughter so I wanted<br />
nuclear free for nearly 30 years, to settle back here. I also wanted to<br />
can you tell me why you became be able to keep working on disarmament<br />
and promoting peace talks<br />
involved in nuclear disarmament<br />
work?<br />
within Christchurch and the rest of<br />
It goes back to 1975. I was a New Zealand. In 1979, I had my first<br />
23-year-old music teacher at Epsom daughter and became a founding<br />
Girls Grammar, and at the time I member of the Peace Foundation.<br />
was about to teach the girls a piece I ran the Christchurch office from<br />
of music dedicated to the survivors<br />
of the atomic bomb that was How was it balancing mother-<br />
home. I still do.<br />
dropped on Hiroshima. I wanted to hood and<br />
TO<br />
work?<br />
A NEW LOCATION IN<br />
learn who the victims were and what It was tough. I have three<br />
happened to them and the aftermath<br />
of it. I was horrified. I decided there was a lot to do. It was really a<br />
daughters and I was a solo mum so<br />
I wanted to go back to university balancing act. I never had hired help<br />
and learn about peace studies and to look<br />
FERRYMEAD,<br />
after my girls that was part<br />
DUE TO<br />
nuclear disarmament.<br />
of my job. There were other woman<br />
Is that when you decided to involved in the Peace Foundation<br />
study in England?<br />
so we would take turns baby sitting<br />
No university in New Zealand was each others kids when we needed<br />
offering a course in peace studies. So to do things.<br />
EARTHQUAKE<br />
I slowed down a bit<br />
REPAIRS<br />
I had to leave the country to be able after the earthquakes, though. It was<br />
to do it. I went to Bradford University<br />
to learn more about peace Why was that?<br />
secretary general Ban Ki-moon told Dr Dewes that the people<br />
more a case that I had to.<br />
MEMORABLE: Following the February 22, 2011, earthquake, UN<br />
talks, disarmament and what was Our house in Riccarton was of Christchurch had his support.<br />
happening around the world. I lived damaged following the September<br />
in Bradford while I studied and then 4, 2010, earthquake and all of my turned out to be about 120 banana were doing, can you tell me a bit<br />
came back here.<br />
work and the paper I had written on boxes of work. Funnily, they were about that?<br />
Why did you decide to come nuclear disarmament,<br />
WATCH<br />
and my PhD stored in the<br />
THIS<br />
Air Force Museum<br />
SPACE<br />
There were some people that were<br />
back to Christchurch?<br />
on peace issues, had to be put into here in Christchurch.<br />
against what we were doing. It was<br />
Well, I had to. And I was pregnant storage so they could be kept safe. It You got some abuse for what you the height of the cold war and we<br />
wanted to educate people as to what<br />
was going on. I was getting threatening<br />
phone calls about being attacked<br />
and some people even came to my<br />
home. I remember a photo was<br />
taken of me in the paper with one<br />
of my daughters sitting on my lap<br />
and someone said to me, ‘how dare<br />
you travel and work internationally<br />
when you have a family!’ I just<br />
laugh about it. There was a group<br />
that was against our idea of encouraging<br />
schools to teach children<br />
about peace settlements and things.<br />
Someone from the group against<br />
what we were doing spoke at a concerned<br />
parents’ association meeting<br />
in Hamilton. That’s where I am from<br />
and my parents were in the audience.<br />
During the person’s speech,<br />
he called me a communist, not that<br />
there was anything wrong with that,<br />
but at the time that was a rather<br />
weighted word. My parents were in<br />
the audience, and my dad stood up<br />
and said that I was his daughter and<br />
he defended me. That was a really<br />
big thing to do.<br />
Were there many low points?<br />
It was hard travelling internationally<br />
and being a solo mum, but I did<br />
it. When I wasn’t overseas, I worked<br />
from home so I could manage.<br />
What do you think are your really<br />
big personal achievements?<br />
Being a mother of three daughters<br />
is a big personal achievement.<br />
Getting my PhD was another one.<br />
I was working, being a parent and<br />
doing my PhD, so I’m really proud<br />
of that.<br />
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