1981 Revisited
The 1981 Springbok Tour and the protests against it were seminal events in New Zealand’s history. 30 years on, some of the players from the 81 Springboks are planning a reunion in New Zealand next year.
Several Green MPs were deeply involved with the protest movement against the Tour in 1981, especially Kevin Hague, Catherine Delahunty, and Keith Locke. In this podcast they speak about their experiences of the tour and their thoughts about the planned Springbok reunion.
We also hear from Kennedy Graham, who was opposed to the tour but constrained from protesting in 1981 by his role as a diplomat – and Gareth Hughes, who was born in 1981 and has grown up in an Aotearoa shaped by those life-changing events.
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