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The end of the Vietnam War shifted the focus of the Cold War away from Asia and New Zealand's need for ‘forward defence’ diminished. These changes, together with the anti-Vietnam War movement, ushered in a new era of debate about Cold War policies and New Zealand’s place in the world.
Following police warnings of civil strife, Prime Minister Norman Kirk informed the New Zealand Rugby Football Union that the government saw ‘no alternative’ to a postponement of the planned tour by the South African Springboks.
In 1967 protestors laid a protest wreath in Christchurch on Anzac Day to highlight their opposition to the Vietnam War. They were subsequently convicted of disorderly behaviour. A decade later further controversy arose when a women's group laid a wreath in memory of women killed and raped in war. During the 1980s other activist groups – feminists, gays, Māori and peace activists – all used Anzac Day services to seek publicity for their cause. Some ex-servicemen and politicians also used Anzac Day ceremonies to speak out during the anti-nuclear debate of the 1980s.
Demonstration against the proposed SIS Amendment Act, 14 October 1977
Pro-abortion rights march, Wellington, 1973
View of some of the tents put up by Maori land marchers on the lawns in front of the Parliamentary Buildings, Wellington, 1975
Māori Land March on the outskirts of Palmerston North, October 1975
Women protesting about the insufficient Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) in 1977
Wellington protest march against French nuclear testing in the Pacific, 1972
iew of the crowd of about 4,500 anti Vietnam war protestors gathered in Cuba Street outside the Wellington Town Hall, 1 May 1971
Anti abortion demonstrators marching in Willis Street, Wellington, 1974
Anti-apartheid demonstrators protest about an All Black rugby tour to South Africa, 1970
Ecology Action Group demonstrators in Wellington carrying crosses listing ecological disasters, 31 July 1972
Demonstrators campaigning to end diplomatic and consular ties with South Africa protesting outside the South African Consulate, 1977
Simon Morton looks at the connection between two items from the Te Papa collection: the rugby ball used in the deciding test of the 1956 Springbok tour and 1981 protester John Minto's helmet.
The RNZN’s independence as a service came to an end when the Ministry of Defence (created in July 1963) was reconstituted to incorporate all three armed services on 1 January 1964.
Video about Ngāti Whātua's occupation of Bastion Point in Auckland during the late 1970s
Hear about Waikato's 1956 win against the South African Springboks and the protest that stopped the same two teams playing in 1981
Special constables guard strike-breakers working Shaw Savill & Albion’s Home boat Athenic in 1913
In 1981 an act made it an offense to destroy or damage the NZ flag

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