The 1981 Springbok rugby tour

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The Vault - 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour

8 Apr 2011

Flour bombs, flares and leaflets were dropped from a low flying Cessna plane which buzzed the third and final game of the 1981 Springbok Tour - dramatic Radio New Zealand coverage of the game and the… Audio
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Access All Areas: A Country Divided

6 Aug 2011

The winter of 1981 saw the Springboks rugby team tour New Zealand, and Kiwis divided. Recent Maori attempts to reclaim ownership of government requisitioned land at Bastion Point had focused attention… Audio

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Anti-tour protestor reflects on thirty years since first game

22 Jul 2011

Thirty years since the first game in the 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand. Audio
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Brian Morris remembers the 1981 Springbok Tour

15 Dec 2013

Ngāti Kahungunu Rongowhakaata Brian Morris was a Hawkes-Bay-representative-rugby-playing-school-teacher in 1981 when he made a stand against apartheid and the Springbok tour. He talks about that… Audio
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Tom Scott: Rage

3 Sep 2011

Tom Scott is a cartoonist, satirist, author and playwright. His latest project is a television docu-drama centred on the controversial 1981 Sprinkbok tour of New Zealand. Rage is the story of two… Audio
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Springbok Tour put NZ Commonwealth Games in danger

13 Jun 2012

Confidential Australian cabinet papers from 30 years ago, which have just been made public, reveal that concern about the 1981 Springbok tour was so high, it jeopardised New Zealand's participation at… Audio
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New Zealand As It Might Have Been: Bob Gregory

3 Jan 2011

What would have happened if New Zealand had lost the last test against the Springboks during the troubled tour of 1981? Bob Gregory, a professor of politics at Victoria University of Wellington… Audio
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Anti Springbok tour demonstrators overturn a car, Auckland, New Zealand. Dominion post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP-Ethics-Demonstrations-1981 Springbok tour-04. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23168677

The 1981 Springbok rugby tour

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