the Alliance began to collapse in 2002, Bunkle sided with Jim Anderton's faction, but decided not to seek re-election. In 2020, Bunkle wrote an essay for Newsroom about her time in politics, in which she alleged that bullying, factional power-play and misuse of funding had been commonplace in the Alliance, and that this was an example of an abusive culture throughout Parliament that persists to the present. Life after Parliament After leaving parliament at the 2002 general election, Bunkle worked overseas, including in China as a women's studies teacher and in Britain where she completed an MSc in integrated health. In 2003 Bunkle was appointed as a member of the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand. She served two months before resigning her membership, citing her relocation to the United Kingdom as her reason for her resignation. In 2007 she was charged with theft after allegedly shoplifting a bottle of wine and two packets of coffee from a supermarket in Paraparaumu. She pleaded guilty and was given diversion. Selected works Phillida Bunkle, Women in higher education; presented on behalf of the Interuniversity Committee for Sex Equality in Education (SEE) (Wellington: New Zealand Parliament, Select Committee on Women's Rights, 1974). Phillida Bunkle; Stephen I Levine; and Christopher J Wainwright, Learning about sexism in New Zealand (Wellington: Learmonth Publications, 1976). Phillida Bunkle and Beryl Hughes,eds. Women in New Zealand Society (Auckland: George Allen & Unwin, 1980). Phillida Bunkle, “The Origins of the Women's Movement in New Zealand: The Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1885–1895,” 52–76. Phillida Bunkle, "Calling the shots? The international politics of depo-provera" 165–177 in Test-tube women: what future for motherhood? Rita Arditti; Renate Klein; and, Shelley Minden, eds. (London/Boston: Pandora Press, 1984). Phillida Bunkle, New Zealand women 1985–1995: markets and inequality; an assessment of the impact of market policies on the position of women (Wellington: Victoria Univ. of Wellington, 1996). Robin Hyde; Phillida Bunkle; Linda Hardy; and, Jacqueline Matthews, Nor the years condemn (Auckland: New Women's Press, 1986). Phillida Bunkle and Sandra Coney, Submission from Fertility Action to the Committee for Inquiry into the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital (Wellington: Fertility Action, 1987). Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle An unfortunate experiment at National Women's (Auckland metro, June 1987). Phillida Bunkle, Second opinion: the politics of women's health in New Zealand (Auckland: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988). Phillida Bunkle, Across the counter: the lives of the working poor in