Editing Edmund Hillary (section)

===Political involvement===

Hillary supported the [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]] in the [[1975 New Zealand general election]], as a member of the "[[Citizens for Rowling]]" campaign. His involvement in this campaign was seen as precluding his nomination as [[Governor-General of New Zealand|governor-general]];<ref>''Rowling: The Man and the Myth'' by John Henderson, Australia New Zealand Press, 1980.<!-- publishing info; ISSN/ISBN, page(s) needed --></ref> the position was offered to [[Keith Holyoake]] in 1977. In 1985, Hillary was appointed New Zealand [[List of High Commissioners from New Zealand to India|High Commissioner to India]] (concurrently High Commissioner to [[Bangladesh]] and Ambassador to [[Nepal]]) and spent four and a half years based in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Edmund Hillary: Mountaineer who conquered Everest and devoted his|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-edmund-hillary-mountaineer-who-conquered-everest-and-devoted-his-later-life-to-the-sherpa-people-769765.html|website=The Independent|access-date=17 November 2016|date=12 January 2008}}</ref>

In 1975, Hillary served as a vice president for the [[Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand]],<ref name="ALRANZ">{{cite journal |url=http://abortionwiki.org/archive/alranz.org/NewsletterFebruary2008.htm |date=November 2008 |journal=ALRANZ Newsletter |title=Obituaries |access-date=5 June 2015 |archive-date=5 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605213518/http://abortionwiki.org/archive/alranz.org/NewsletterFebruary2008.htm |url-status=usurped }}</ref> a national [[pro-choice]] advocacy group.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alranz.org/aboutus/history.html |title=Our History |work=ALRANZ.org |access-date=5 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113054730/http://www.alranz.org/aboutus/history.html |archive-date=13 January 2015}}</ref> He was also a patron of REPEAL, an organisation seeking repeal of the restrictive [[Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977]].<ref name="ALRANZ"/>