Broadsheet (magazine)


Broadsheet was a monthly New Zealand feminist magazine produced in Auckland from 1972 to 1997. The magazine played a significant part in New Zealand women's activism. It was to become one of the world's longest-lived feminist magazines.
It was co-founded by Anne Else, Sandra Coney, Rosemary Ronald, and Kitty Wishart. The magazine was "New Zealand's first feminist magazine focusing on women's issues and information sharing on a national and international level."
The first issue was released in July 1972, and "consisted of twelve foolscap pages – stapled". 200 copies were produced, which sold out, and before the second issue was published they had 50 paid subscribers.
Māori issues sometimes received considerable coverage in the magazine, which provoked "fierce exchanges in the letters pages".
The magazine is now an important source for the social history of the period, and its entire back catalogue of Broadsheet is now available on the University of Auckland .