In 1984 she was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner for four years.<\/p>\n
Clark is also credited with starting the triennial post-election conference at Parliament, attended by party leaders, academics and journalists, which has become a key part of New Zealand\u2019s election calendar.<\/p>\n
Other accolades include being one of the first women to be admitted to the capital\u2019s exclusive Wellington Club, which started accepting women in 1993.<\/p>\n
Clark penned a number of books, including biographical works on a number of politicians, including Sir Robert Muldoon, Sir Keith Holyoake, Norman Kirk and Peter Fraser.<\/p>\n
In 1993 she was recognised for services to education, before being made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006, making her rare in being recognised as a political scientist by National and Labour governments.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Victoria University established an annual prize in her name for an honours or master\u2019s student in the Political Science and International Relations school.<\/p>\n
She married then-Treasury Secretary Bernie Galvin in 1980, who died in 2010.<\/p>\n
Victoria University director of the Centre for Strategic Studies Professor David Capie posted on social media that Clark would be remembered as a \u201ctrail-blazing academic\u201d as well as a \u201cbeloved teacher, and a wonderful colleague\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1984 she was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner for four years. Clark is also credited with starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18919,95,18788,14903,2947,6179,7126,2740,42,16420,87076,43,91243,18154,12718,388,40,38,41,39,33122,88285],"class_list":["post-597205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aged","tag-and","tag-clark","tag-commissioner","tag-dame","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-former","tag-headlines","tag-human","tag-margaret","tag-news","tag-notable","tag-political","tag-rights","tag-scientist","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trailblazing","tag-wellingtonian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}