The August Bulletin contains Rob Egan’s piece on Pike River and Therese O’Connell’s entire chapter on the Women’s Charter, the Federation of Labour and the Women’s Sub Committee from the wonderful new book edited by Marie Russell and Gay Simpkin ‘Women Will Rise: Working Women’s Charter’ (2022, Steele Roberts). Other highlights include the story of Kōtare and its role in education by LHP Committee member Sue Bradford, Roger Middlemass on a shorter working week in the meat industry, Mark Derby on the Taranaki Tiger.