DEATH
IN THE FAMILY by Murray
Horton
Peace Researcher 33 –
November 2006
ABC expresses our
condolences to Nicky Hager, a
longstanding member and world expert on spy bases and Intelligence agencies, on
the 2006 death of his mother, Barbara
Hager, aged 75, in Wellington.
I asked Nicky to write a couple of lines. Instead, he sent his four page
funeral eulogy and asked me to do the choosing. So here’s a tiny extract: “This
was also the time when she became active in politics. She and our father were
first National, then Labour supporters but in the late 1970s their home became
a base for the Horowhenua Values Party – predecessor of the Green Party. In
1982 she became the first woman president of a political party in New
Zealand”. The eulogy tells a fascinating life
story and if you’d like to read it, contact Nicky at nicky@paradise.net.nz.
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