Life After Parliament
Since leaving Parliament, Gordon has run a small research and evaluation agency called Network Research Associates, and has been involved in many issues and organisations. She spent four years on the Massey University Council, including a period as Pro-Chancellor, is an active member (and National President, since 2009) of the Quality Public Education Coalition, a Council member of the Howard League for Penal Reform (since 2005) and is active in local body affairs. She wrote a weekly opinion column for the Christchurch Press between 2006 and 2008.
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Which I have borne and yet must bear,
Till death like sleep might steal on me,”
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