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Hilary Taylor's avatar

My first husband was involved with AK policing during the Springbok tour & as he was one of 11 kids he had some sibs on the other side of the barricades...not a comfortable thing. I think he was also seconded to the Bastion Point protests prior, from Wgtn.

The bro was involved in a garage band called Gideon & The Task Force for a while. Gideon Tait was Pol Commish.

I've never protested physically.

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A Halfling’s View's avatar

I was in the UK when the Springbok tour was going. I recall being in the BBC newsroom when they were screening what was going on. It was shocking and quite unbelievable. I knew people on both side of the barricades as well - they were uncomfortable times.

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David's avatar

"One that I recall was a form of “occupation” of Albert Park" - talk about history repeating.

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A Halfling’s View's avatar

I think in those days they were called "happenings"

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Geoffrey Robert Burns's avatar

My first experience of political activism was on a march through Wellington with 10,000 others opposed to the 1977 SIS Amendment Bill. I first became aware of the Bill from a leaflet, one of the things that got me worried was that under the proposed law, my mother, as a public servant, could be tried for treason, if she was asked by the SIS to spy on her work colegues & either refused or told her colegues that she had been asked to spy on them.

There were arguments both for & against it in all the avaliable news media of the day. I made a scrapbook of all the for & against arguments cut out of the Dominion Post & The Evening Post. That scrapbook book disappeared in mysterious circumstances a couple of years later.

The fact that there were tens of thousands of people on those protests baffles that in all the years since I have never been able to find more that one news paper article & one photo of the opposition to the Bill. I will be most interested to see if anyone else can she'd some light on those times?

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