New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

This title is attributed to a New Zealand committee rather than an individual author. Contemporary New Zealand reference sources describe it as a Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion set up in 1975, when abortion had become one of the country’s most contested public issues.

Te Ara notes that the commission’s members included Sir Duncan McMullin as chair, alongside Dr M. D. Matich, Barbara J. Thomson, Dame Dorothy Winstone, Denese Henare, and M. R. McGregor. Their recommendations fed into the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977, a law that made abortion harder to obtain and was later amended in 1978.

Because this work comes from a formal inquiry body, there is no single personal life story to tell in the usual “about the author” sense. The best way to understand it is as an official, collaborative document from a commission whose findings became part of a major turning point in New Zealand social policy.