Ideas for 6 December 2009: Sandra Coney

Sandra Coney is probably best known as the co-author of an investigative Metro article which ultimately led to the Cervical Cancer Inquiry. An award-winning journalist and editor of the feminist magazine Broadsheet for 14 years and later an Auckland Regional Councillor, Sandra Coney's ideas have been challenging the way we view our country for years. Sandra Coney talks about the people, writers and thinkers who have influenced her ideas, including John Stuart Mill, Simone de Beauvoir, Ivan Illich, Donna Awatere, and her parents - Tom and Doris Pearce. From the Ideas collection: Influential Kiwis talk about their Influences