Podcasts about springbok tour

Taki Rua: Breaking Barriers tells the story of the theatre group that started out as an activist group following the Springbok Tour protests, and ended up creating a new art form. Directed by Whetū Fala, it features Wi Kuki Kaa, Jim Moriarty, Rena Owen, Briar Grace Smith and many more.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Welcome to 'Before I Go', our season on death and dying. In this fourth episode of season five, we talk with legendary Christian Activist Rev. George Armstrong about his experiences with the Springbok Tour and Nuclear Free New Zealand. 

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Let's kick-off with a bit of financial advice. If you have shares in a sausage roll factory or an ice cream shop, sell them now. Because, after today, sales are going to plummet without the politicians screaming around the country filling their gobs and scooping the cold stuff into cones. Come midnight tonight, we are done for another three years. Although the real action is still to come with voting still happening until 7 o'clock tomorrow night and then the results. I love election night. But what I think is going to be very different this time around is how people are going to react if the result isn't what they want. I'm picking that the mood of this campaign is going to linger. That's because I agree with business leader Sir Ian Taylor who is saying today that this has been the worst campaign he's ever seen because of how divided everyone is. Not just the politicians and the parties, but us voters as well. I have never known people to be either totally forthright in saying how bad they think the parties, the policies and the individual politicians are; or terrified of getting involved in arguments about politics. Especially socially. I've even heard stories about social occasions being delayed until after the election because people just don't want to risk getting groups together and it turning into a row about politics. But that's not going to end tomorrow night, or whenever we know which parties are going to be in government. That's because I reckon that this is the most divided we have been as a country since the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. The division among people then as to whether the tour should've been happening or not was probably the most divided we have been as a country. But the way things have been during this election campaign - and even before that - would have to be a close second to the division during the Springbok Tour, don't you think? I'm definitely with Sir Ian Taylor when he says that this has been the worst campaign ever because of the anger and division. Which is obvious in some of the policies that have been touted by the various parties. Policies designed to try and calm the farm because we're all so angry. GST off fruit and veggies. A crazy policy. But, hey, it could mean we're less angry when we go to the supermarket. Ending co-governance. Yep, apparently we'll be less angry if they stop that blimmin' “iwi takeover”. Less road cones. Yep - that'll make us less angry. And, as Sir Ian is saying today, with all these politicians coming up with ideas that they think will make us less angry - or policies that just put oil on the squeaky wheel - none of the parties have come up with a long-term vision for our country. The sort of vision you might expect politicians to come-up with. But that isn't happening, because of the divisiveness and anger. Which was apparent in last night's Leaders' Debate on TVNZ, wasn't it? Man alive, Chris Hipkins especially was just letting rip. Especially when Christopher Luxon was going-on about Hipkins having no control over his Cabinet, and the Labour leader came back with that line of the night, saying: "None of my MPs beat people up with a bed leg." Which was a reference, of course, to National MP Sam Uffindell. And depending who you talk to, it was either a very low blow or a brilliant piece of debating. I think it was both. It definitely made me sit up and pay attention! Put it that way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Laughter is not usually something associated with the 1981 Springbok Tour but a new film manages to inject some lighter moments into a seminal period in Kiwi history. Uproar is a coming-of-age film starring Hunt for the Wilderpeople's Julian Dennison as 17-year-old Josh Waaka. As a Maori kid in Dunedin in the '80s, he's treated as an outsider at his school until his talent as an actor is discovered by his drama teacher - played by Rhys Darby. He's introduced to a young Maori woman, Samantha , played by Erana James - who helps get him involved in the anti-Tour movement. Uproar had its debut at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month and is out in cinemas now. Julian and Erana speak to Kathryn about what it was like to go back in time for this film - and how its themes are still relevant today.

Julian Dennison and James Rolleston are familiar faces to fans of kiwi films.  The pair started acting young, starring in Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Boy, respectively.   The award-winning actors returned to New Zealand screens October 5th with the highly anticipated local feature film Uproar, a story about connection and finding your place in the world, set during the Springbok protests of 1981.  Dennison plays the protagonist of the film, Josh Waaka, while Rolleston plays his older brother Jamie.  “Jamie and Josh are both Māori and go to a very Pākehā school,” Dennison told Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame.   “So, it's about Josh finding his Māoridom, also finding himself.”  While the outdated fashion might be the first difference viewers notice, it's not the only part of the film that kiwis might find unfamiliar.  “It was hectic,” Rolleston told Tame. “The things that were happening back then, around the Springbok tour.”  “Before the film, I just knew that there were some marches that didn't go too well, that kind of thing. I wasn't too clued up about it.”  “They don't really teach you at school,” Dennison agreed.  In terms of the characters themselves, Dennison found himself acting from experience.  “I felt like I could relate to him a bit,” he told Tame. “Going to an all-boys school that was predominantly European.”  “That thing of being too brown for school, but also being too white for some cliques outside of school.”  The film is a journey of self-discovery for Josh, not only finding himself beyond where he fits in school, but also within his family and culture.  Both actors are hoping that this film will be an inspiration for people to find those cultural connections, to connect with their Māoridom in a way they hadn't previously.  “I hope people walk out of there going, “Yeah I'm going to start the journey.””  “You see the Māori ways come up in the film,” Rolleston said. “Which is good for people to see, especially our young people.”   “I feel like this film is going to bring up some good conversations,” Dennison told Tame.   “I think this movie will, you know, cultivate people to talk about this stuff.”  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand continued to play rugby against South Africa through the years of apartheid, and toured over there with a 'white only team'. Then in 1981 the Springbok team were welcomed onto our shores.

Next time I spill tomato juice down the front of my shirt, I'll know what it was like for Posie Parker on Saturday. Posie is the gender activist that most of us had never heard of until she arrived in Australia on her so-called “speaking tour” and had a bunch of far-right clowns turn up and do the Nazi salute. It was all over the news which meant that, as soon as word got out that she was heading our way too, there was a lot of noise and demands for her to be kept out of the country. The Immigration Minister Michael Wood made it clear he didn't want her coming here but she wasn't enough of a risk for his immigration officials to tell her she couldn't come. And so, on Saturday morning in central Auckland, her speaking tour took her to Albert Park. But she didn't get very far because all the noise last week meant she was outnumbered big time. They reckon there could have been a couple of thousand people there on Saturday. And they were there banging pots and chanting and playing music. In a way, the pro-transgender crew took a leaf out of Trevor Mallard's book. He played Barry Manilow during the protest at Parliament last year. On Saturday, the protesters went for Whitney Houston. But it all got too much when the tomato juice started flying - although there have been conflicting reports as to what it actually was. Initially, it was paint. Another report said it was soup and egg. By today, we're being told it was tomato juice. So let's assume for now it was tomato juice - until the forensics report comes through and we know for sure. So Posie cops a bit of tomato juice and she pulls the plug. Then, once she's out of there, she has a chat with her “security people” and, apparently, they tell her that they can't guarantee her safety if she goes ahead with the “speaking event” she had planned for Wellington yesterday. And, by Saturday night, Posie is at Auckland airport, presumably heading home to the UK. When I saw that I wondered what she would say to the person next to her on the plane about what she'd done in New Zealand. If she said "not much”, she wouldn't have been lying. The problem was though, there were truckloads of people who had planned to protest at the Wellington event yesterday - which was cancelled. And a whole lot of people had planned to do the same thing in Christchurch. So what do you do when the person you're protesting against is a no-show? Simple. You have a rally instead of a protest. And that's exactly what happened in Wellington and Christchurch yesterday. And why wouldn't you? The thing is though, did it really have to get so ugly on Saturday? You might recall a few weeks back when there was a bit of a to-do about Turanga central library in Christchurch having a storytelling event for kids with drag queens. It started with a few far-right clowns getting excited online but they weren't the only ones who turned up and protested outside the library that Sunday morning. And, from the reports I read, that got ugly too with some people being abused as they left the building and staff being abused inside, as well. I had no problem at all with that storytelling event. And I thought it was appalling that some people thought it was perfectly fine to stand outside a library and force the kids to walk through a sea of intolerance and hate. But, even though I was fully supportive of the drag queen storytelling at the library –and completely opposed to the protest outside– that doesn't mean that I think that what happened on Saturday at the Posie Parker event was justified. And this is where the pro-transgender crew got it all completely wrong at the weekend. Did they really think that one person's toxic view of the world was going to bring their world crashing down? Posie Parker is not a dictator in charge of a country that denies people their human rights. Posie Parker is not Vladimir Putin. Posie Parker is not South Africa in 1982. The event in Auckland on Saturday was not the Springbok Tour. It wasn't French nuclear testing in the Pacific. All it was was someone from Britain on a bit of a glorified holiday. That's all it was. But it didn't stop several thousand people turning up and, quite frankly, doing a complete disservice to the cause they are so committed to. Posie Parker did not warrant the complete over-reaction we saw at the weekend. Simply because Posie Parker is a nobody. A nobody who is probably back home in Britain now, doing a few loads of washing and trying to decide whether she should try and stay awake or give in to the jetlag.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A massive and irreplaceable archive of historically significant photographs is up for sale on the open market, after a lengthy ordeal abroad that almost saw them destroyed. Dubbed the Fairfax Archives, in 2013 the collection of 1.4 million photographs was sent by Fairfax Media to the United States to be digitised. However the company carrying out the digitisation later became linked to sports memorabilia fraud, was raided by the FBI and later bankrupted. The collection of images, as well as others from Australian newspapers, were seized and held as collateral on a US$14 million loan, and were in danger of being destroyed. An L.A-based gallery has since bought the entire archive, and is putting some of the photos up for sale. Described by historians as the country's "national photo album", the archive spans from 1840 to 2005. It includes historic moments like the 1981 Springbok Tour protests, the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the aftermath of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake and Sir Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mt Everest - as well as royal visits, Auckland's Queen St and 40,000 pictures of the All Blacks. So where should the Fairfax Archive ideally end up? And what does the sale of the collection mean for the preservation of our history? Kathryn speaks to Daniel Miller, the owner of Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles and Dr Paul Moon, a professor of History at AUT who was asked by Duncan Miller Gallery to help identify the images.

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Yesterday it was Wellington. Today, it has to be Cranmer Square, in Christchurch. Because just as the police were mopping things up outside Parliament last night, we had the spokesperson for the anti-mandate occupation at Cranmer Square saying some of the Wellington crew are going to be heading down here now. “I think we are going to be bigger than Wellington”, is what Ashleigh Thian said to a reporter last night. Which, by the way, is possibly a whole lot of hot air - but whether some of the loons involved in that appalling occupation of Parliament's Grounds are heading here or not, what happened yesterday is full justification for the police going down to Cranmer Square and shutting that thing down too. Can I take you back a couple of weeks, to when Police Commissioner Andrew Coster was interviewed on TVNZ's Q&A programme. At that point, he was saying that if police wanted to shut down the occupation at Parliament, it would require a level of force that would be confronting and unacceptable to most New Zealanders. He talked about “Policing by Consent”. Which means the police force working with the consent of the communities it serves - and balancing law enforcement with keeping the peace. He said he thought two of the low points in New Zealand's policing history were the Springbok Tour protests and the Bastion Point protest - and he didn't think New Zealanders wanted to see the police go back to that style of law enforcement. He said the way the police dealt with the Springbok Tour protests, for example, led to a long-term loss of trust and confidence in the police. And he said the same thing could happen if the police used force to shut down the Wellington occupation. Well, as far as I'm concerned, what happened yesterday in Wellington had the opposite effect. Seeing that sea of police officers stamping their authority - as they should've done when this whole thing started - actually enhanced my trust and confidence in the police. And seeing what some of those despicable people were doing: did you see that video of a car being reversed at speed towards a line of officers? And throwing rocks and stuff. It was just appalling. I know some people yesterday were comparing it to 1981, but I see it completely differently. In 1981, the cops were at every protest, trying to shut them down from the start. With truncheons. The occupiers at Parliament were tolerated for three weeks - an absurd amount of time. And they got away with a lot more than any Springbok Tour protester got away with. So don't give me this “dark day for New Zealand” talk that I heard a few people banging on about yesterday. It wasn't a dark day. It was a day of hope. It was a day that gave me a little bit more confidence that doing the right thing and following the rules is still worth it, is still recognised and that we do still have a Police “force”. But it can't stop in Wellington. The Cranmer Square occupation needs to be shut down because, just like in Wellington, these occupiers are breaking the rules that most of us abide by, they are causing a huge amount of stress for the people living in the area, and now, they're openly encouraging other people to come to Christchurch and join in. “I think we are going to be bigger than Wellington now.” That's what the Cranmer Square spokesperson said last night. So, before there is even a chance of that happening, the police need to show that they've learnt from Wellington, and they need to move in and kick these people out. 

The anti-mandate protests in Wellington have been going on for nearly three weeks. They're becoming increasingly problematic, with residents and reporters being threatened.  New Zealand has a long history of protests and this is the most widely-covered protest since the 1981 Springbok Tour. But what makes these anti-mandate protests different?  Sam Clark spoke to sociology Professor Marcelle Dawson from The University of Otago, who specialises in social movements and popular protest.  

Here's a line for you: “True leadership means tough decisions in difficult times”. That's a quote from a European politician which I think is very relevant to the current situation with the Bandwagon 2022 occupiers still camped outside Parliament.  It's relevant because the Government seems to be avoiding tough decisions at all cost and, as a result – in my view – is demonstrating a complete lack of leadership. Doing what it's doing, and refusing to meet with the occupiers, isn't leadership. It's not a tough decision. It's a cop-out. I'm not saying the Prime Minister going and talking with them would be a sign of true leadership, either. That would be desperation on the Government's part, as far as I'm concerned. And it would come to nothing because the occupiers – if they managed to find someone to speak on their behalf – would tell her ‘we'll pack up the tents and portaloos, if you get rid of the vaccination mandates'.  And she will never agree to that. Not now anyway. And nor should she. Why on earth would you get rid of the mandates when we're about to hit peak Omicron and we have absolutely no idea when this pandemic is going to end?  What these occupiers are demanding, is absolutely nuts. They're in la-la land. So, what would true leadership from the Government actually look like? And what are the tough decisions it needs to make? In my mind, it comes down to just one decision. And depending on what it decides, that will determine whether it is capable of leading us out of this shamble. Or whether it's just going to leave everybody in limbo land.  People like the poor old mayor of Wellington, Andy Foster, who is being berated by some of his fellow city councillors for meeting with the protesters. Foster apparently met with some of the occupation “influencers” sometime over the last couple of days. And you can understand why can't you? He's getting nothing from the Government – other than loud music and sprinklers – and he's desperate to see this thing dealt with, once and for all. But what can he do? He can't get rid of the vaccination mandates. He can't do anything. And now he's got other Wellington councillors saying his act of desperation was “extremely dangerous” and an embarrassment to Wellington. One of them even said it was “un-mayoral”, what he did. Whatever that means. But he wouldn't be doing this if the Government wasn't sitting on its hands and hoping it'll all go away sometime.  It won't just go away sometime. And I know we've heard from people here in Canterbury who have gone up to Wellington to show support for the occupiers and who have told us it's all peace and love. But I don't care whether it's peace and love or whatever. The fact remains that what these people are doing is illegal, they are causing significant disruption and anxiety, and they cannot be allowed to stay there. So, how might the Government show true leadership by making tough decisions in difficult times, as per the quote I mentioned earlier? And what is the one question it needs to ask itself?  Well, this is what I think. I think things are now at the point where the Government must ask itself: “Do we order the Police – and perhaps the Army too – to shut this whole thing down and kick the occupiers out? Or, do we keep doing what we're doing?” If it decides to keep doing what it's doing – nothing will happen. Nothing will change.   But if the Government decides to go the whole hog and shut this occupation down – using the Police and perhaps even the Army – then that, in my opinion, will be true leadership. The true leadership that is desperately needed to get this sorted once and for all. It would, of course, fly in the face of the Police Commissioner's preference for policing by consent. And his fear that using force to end the occupation would be a shift back to the old days of the Springbok Tour and the Red Squad.  But I think the Government has no option. And if it is really capable of leading, then...

The last time Christine Leunens joined Nine to Noon it was from LA, just hours ahead of the Oscars, where Taika Waititi would win Best Adapted Screenplay for JoJo Rabbit. It was adapted, of course, from Christine's book Caging Skies. In the two years since then, she's been busy researching a particularly tumultuous time in New Zealand's history - the 1980s and the impact the Springbok Tour, nuclear testing in the Pacific and bombing of the Rainbow Warrior had at the time. The result is a new novel, In Amber's Wake, a love story set in Auckland, Cambridge and Antarctica, which is already destined for the silver screen, with help from Thelma and Louise producer Mimi Polk Gitlin.

We wrap up our coverage of the 1971 Springbok Tour. The Sprinboks arrive in Australia and are met with protests wherever they go. Email me at jamesdampier.awp@gmail.com  

The 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was controversial. Protests erupted against the South African policy of apartheid and in Queensland a state of emergency was declared.  The implications of the Tour also went broader than the rugby tour. No Apartheid-era sporting team from South Africa ever toured Australia again. It also made Australians reflect on our treatment of our Indigenous peoples Email me at jamesdampier.awp@gmail.com

The new 'Rugby Reloaded' talks to Professor Derek Catsam about his new book on the strange, sanction-busting Springbok of the USA in 1981, 'Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement'. This is story of the interlocking of rugby union politics, apartheid, the Cold War and some inconsequential rugby matches. Coming straight after the the hugely controversial 1981 test series between the All Blacks and the Springboks, the American tour probably qualifies as one of the strangest events in rugby history. For more on the history of rugby and the other football codes, take a look at www.rugbyreloaded.com (where you can find the links for this episode) and follow me on Twitter at @collinstony

Photographer Anthony Phelps is releasing a collection of previously unseen photos of 1981 Springbok Tour protests. 

The All Blacks will play their 100th test against the Springboks on Saturday. This comes 40 years after the South African team toured New Zealand - sparking outrage here and abroad. For 56 days in July, August and September 1981, more than 150,000 New Zealanders took part in more than 200 demonstrations in 28 centres; violence erupted, families were split, and tensions were high. Wellingtonian Spike Thomas remembers the anger he felt during the 1981 Springbok tour. He worked at a car parts dealership in Wellington Central - and often worked with well-known rugby players - before the game went professional. Thomas and his colleagues wanted the tour to go ahead. He's since changed his views, but ahead of watching tomorrow's game, he talked to producer Stacey Knott about what he felt in 1981.

The All Blacks will play their 100th test against the Springboks on Saturday. This comes 40 years after the South African team toured New Zealand - sparking outrage here and abroad. For 56 days in July, August and September 1981, more than 150,000 New Zealanders took part in more than 200 demonstrations in 28 centres; violence erupted, families were split, and tensions were high. Wellingtonian Spike Thomas remembers the anger he felt during the 1981 Springbok tour. He worked at a car parts dealership in Wellington Central - and often worked with well-known rugby players - before the game went professional. Thomas and his colleagues wanted the tour to go ahead. He's since changed his views, but ahead of watching tomorrow's game, he talked to producer Stacey Knott about what he felt in 1981.

Sunday marks the fortieth anniversary of the notorious 'flour-bomb' incident at Eden Park, when violence erupted outside the ground where the third and deciding rugby test between the All Blacks and the Springboks was being played on 12th September 1981. Lynn speaks with Dr Sebastian Potgieter, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago's School of Physical Education Sports and Exercise Sciences. Sebastian is a South African who moved to Dunedin to research a PhD on the Springboks tour, after researching the tour for his Masters back in South Africa. He's a rugby player himself. In fact, he arrived in Dunedin on a Wednesday and on the Friday was playing his first game for Dunedin's Alhambra Union Rugby Club. So far Sebastian's research indicates interpretation of historical events may shift in accordance with a desire to impose meaning on the past.

Forty years on, protesters recall the heart-stopping moments and enduring consequences of the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the controversial Springbok rugby tour that divided the country, and a new book is helping young New Zealanders to understand the issues that made it so divisive. It's from former teacher-turned-author Anne Kayes, and starts out in March 2020 under lockdown when the main character, Liza, tries to explain to her children what a fraught time it was in 1981. The story is told in flashbacks to 15-year-old Liza, and Anne says she leaned on some of her own memories and experiences of the time, as well as extensive research and interviews with activists, including John Minto. The result, In Our Own Back Yard, is a snapshot of New Zealand society at two pivotal moments - pandemic and Tour.

Former broadcaster Keith Quinn talks to Wellington Mornings Host Nick Mills about the Olympics and the 1981 Springbok tour, and how there was a moment he feared for his safety.  

On Monday Brian spoke with John Minto. Former National Organiser for HART (Halt all Racist Tours) John is traveling around the country holding meetings in all the centres which hosted the Springboks in 1981 on the actual dates of the games, as part of the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour to New Zealand. This Sunday sees the second stop on the tour in Hamilton, that brought New Zealand to a standstill in 1981. NZ History website wrote that Rugby Park was packed for the first Saturday game of the controversial tour. More than 500 police officers were present in the city. The authorities were unaware, however, that protest organisers had bought several hundred tickets for the game. Shortly before kick-off, several hundred others tore down a boundary fence and poured into Rugby Park from a nearby street. One of those protesters was Brendan Corbett writer & activist who joins us now with his lovely wife Kahoa who is the founder of the very first Public Library in the Kingdom of Tonga See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the most divisive Rugby Union tours in history.

On this day 35 years ago, July 9, the homosexual law reform bill passed it's third reading and sex between men was finally decriminalised. The campaign polarised New Zealand to levels not seen since the Springbok Tour in 1981, as a vicious anti-campaign took hold, driven by fundamentalist churches.The campaign mobilised support from a broad range of organisations, as gay men, lesbians and others tried to keep their coalition together, in the face of different objectives internally and ferocious hostility externally.We spoke with;Bill Logan, the Gay Task Force spokesperson at the time (@BolshevikBill) Fran Wilde, who was the Labour MP that sponsored the billRuth Dyson, future Labour MP and parliamentary assistant to FranEvin Wood, who was a 40 year teacher in Blenheim at the timeTighe Instone, a lesbian who became politically active for the first time during the campaign (My thanks to PrideNZ and Tighe for letting me use their interview for this episode)PrideNZ's amazing library of archival content on this periodThe Elizabeth Kerekere interview where she talks in depth about the term takatapui and its useThe Lesbian and Gay Archives NZ, with a book on the campaign amongst other great contentFollow 1/200 on Twitter (@1of200podcast), and host Huw Morgan (@huwcmorgan) or (@blueprintspod)Support 1/200 on PatreonThanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title musicThanks to Ethan Hunter for his musicThanks to Daniel Hart for the backing musicPlease leave us a 5* review, it helps other people find the podcast !

Forty years ago the country was gearing up for one of its biggest political conflicts of the 20th century - the 1981 Springbok Tour. Wellington City Libraries and Wellington Archives have joined forces this year to mark the events of 1981 as they happened. 

Waikato Museum curator Maree Mills (Ngati Tuwharetoa) joins Mike Williams to discuss the museum's full day of free Matariki celebrations on Saturday 19 June, and the opening of a new family-friendly exhibition that explores the mysteries of the universe – Maiangi Waitai: Ātea-ā-Rangi. They also cover the exhibition 1981, revisiting the anti-Springbok Tour movement through the work of local photographers. And Marti Friedlander – Portraits of the Artists, which presents some of her most revealing and iconic work as one of New Zealand's most accomplished portrait photographers.

Writer Kerry Harrison delves into her memories of taking part in the 1981 anti-Springbok tour protests for her latest novel, Hold the Line. In the book, she introduces legal student Beth who joins in the protests, and Viktor, a member of the secretive Police Red Squad. They keep secrets from each other when they first get together and this tests the fledgling relationship. Meanwhile the anti-tour stance of Beth and her brother Rob put them in conflict with their rugby fanatic father. Kerry Harrison talks about the book with Lynn Freeman. Hold the Line by Kerry Harrison is published by Cloud Ink.

In today's episode, Troy sits down with Sebastian (Bas) Potgieter. Bas has recently submitted his PhD in Sport and Exercise Science (History). He is orignially from South Africa and the discussion today highlights the tumultuous period of Apartheid South Africa and New Zealand's involvement with South Africa through the Springbok tour. Bas Displays a level of critical thinking that is necessary when navigating our information age.Enjoy

Rosemary Baragwanath spent her career working in nursing and has spent a lifetime involved in grassroots political movements including as a leader in the protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour and and the South African apartheid.

In 1971, Australia exploded with protest against a sporting tour by the white supremacist South African rugby union team – the Springbok. The Springbok were the ultimate international symbol of South African racism. Under a system known as apartheid, white South Africans, who made up 20% of the country’s population, owned 80% of all its...

In this talk, authors Stephanie Gibson, Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns will provide insights into the stories and objects that fill the recent publication ‘Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance', their material history of activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. They'll explore the many ways New Zealanders have spoken up for change, from pulling up survey pegs to marching against the Springbok Tour. They will share histories connected to collection items from institutions around the country that are connected to protest and will discuss our diverse history of objects and images made for causes, from the New Zealand Wars to agitating for women's rights and protecting the environment.  These monthly Public History Talks are a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand https://natlib.govt.nz/ and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage https://mch.govt.nz/. Recorded live at the National Library of New Zealand, 4 March 2020.

The 60s, 70s and 80s were rowdy decades. Kiwis were getting out in the streets and raising their voices about the rights of Māori, women and LGBT people, nuclear energy, the environment. Plus the most controversial sporting event in our history: The 1981 Springbok Tour.

Martin Devlin chats to former All Black captain Graham Mourie, who famously was one of the two players who ruled himself out of the 1981 Springbok Tour, and his memories of that time. 

Kevin Putt, former Springbok, who was a 16-year-old in the stands during the abandoned Hamilton match during the 1981 Springbok Tour to watch his brother (Stephen) play for the Waikato side. He recalls the fear when things turned ugly and rugby fans starting turning on protesters. LISTEN ABOVE AS KEVIN PUTT SPEAKS WITH RADIO SPORT MORNINGS

Ross Meurant, former politician and second-in-charge of the infamous Red Squad during the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand, reflects back on his experience at the abandoned Hamilton match - 37 years ago to the day today - and how it's influenced his life since.LISTEN ABOVE AS ROSS MEURANT SPEAKS WITH RADIO SPORT MORNINGS

The '81 Springbok Tour woke and divided New Zealand, but this week's object and its champion are a surprising combination that shows just how far we've come.

This week Dylan speaks to author and journalist Larry Writer about his new bookPitched Battle: In the Frontline of the 1971 Springbok Tour of AustraliaThen the Reading Room returns with Sally Rippin and Elise Hurst to talk about creating pictures books

This week the Westside Stories podcast gets political with John Minto, a central figure of the 1981 Springbok Tour protests and former National Chairman of the Halt All Racist Tours organisation, joining host Graeme Hill in the podcast studio.

All Black legend and 1981 try-scorer Stu Wilson joins actor Will Hall (Detective Mike McCarthy) and host Graeme Hill in the Westside Stories podcast studio and they take a trip down memory lane as 'Westside' fan Stu recalls what it was like being a player on the field in the 1981 Springbok Tour. Read more at: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11675950

Host Graeme Hill chats with 'Westside' director Michael Hurst about recreating the protests at Rugby Park in Hamilton, making fast turnaround television and strapping on phonebooks for protection during the 1981 Springbok Tour protests.

“Open the books,” is Mayoral candidate Penny Bright’s catch phrase, She hasn’t paid her rates for 9 years, and won’t until Auckland Council tells us how our rate payers money is being spent. Auckland Mayoral Candidate and public watchdog Penny Bright talks with Lisa Er. 'Activists get things done'! “It's time to stop the commercialisation and privatisation of Council services and regulatory functions, and return to the genuine 'public service' model” says Penny. “It's time for we the people to take back control of our region, our assets and our resources!” This October, voting Penny Bright for Mayor will not be just a 'protest' vote - but a vote for real change that will serve the public and the public interest - not corporate interests. “I'm fiercely and genuinely politically independent and work on an 'issue by issue' basis. My proven track record is 20 years experience in local government, defending the public & the public interest, as a self-funded anti-privatisation & anti-corruption 'Public Watchdog'.” “I am opposed to corporate control, locally, nationally and internationally, and am the only Auckland Mayoral candidate who is actively opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).” Penny also asserts that it is time to 'roll back Rogernomics' which was based on the myth and mantra 'public is bad - private is good'. (Rogernomics neo-liberal philosophy embraces five basic principles: 1 The rule of the market 2 Cutting public expenditure for social services 3 Deregulation 4 Privatisation 5 Eliminating the concept of public good or community.) “In my opinion, the only ones to have benefited from running public services in a more 'business-like' mode are those businesses which have been awarded the contracts. However, if Government and Council public services are now being owned, operated and managed for private profit without cost-benefit analysis - then that, in my view is 'corporate welfare', to which I am totally opposed.   Open the books - cut out the contractors - bring Council services & regulatory functions back 'in house' under the public service model, and stop corrupt cronyism and corporate welfare.” If elected Auckland Mayor Penny Bright will ensure the rule of law is implemented and enforced regarding ratepayers and citizens lawful rights to open, transparent and democratically accountable local government. “I'm also totally opposed to 'democracy for developers' and question why all this 'growth' has to come to Auckland? In my view, there should be a national population growth, migration and regional employment strategy.” Who benefits now from this 'One Plan' for Auckland, in my view, are property developers, foreign investors, bankers, land bankers, speculators and money-launderers. This is a 'Supercity' - for the 1%. The Auckland region is being run 'like a business - by business - for business, the mechanism for this effective corporate takeover being the 'Council Controlled Organisation' (CCO) model. It's time to stop the commercialisation and privatisation of Council services and regulatory functions, and return to the genuine 'public service' model. It's time for we the people to take back control of our region, our assets and our resources!” This time voting Penny Bright for Mayor will not be just a 'protest' vote - but a vote for real change that will serve the public and the public interest - not corporate interests. Penny’s Bio: AT 61, Penny sees her life as an onion, with many layers to her life. Her formative childhood years were in the Wairarapa. She was brought up on a 6 acre lifestyle block in Carterton, where she picked strawberries in Greytown as a 10 year old, to help buy a pony with the required riding gear. From this she learned to focus, and work hard to achieve what she wanted in life. She did well academically, but chose not to go University, having discovered political activism in her 7th form year through joining the anti-apartheid movement. After a year of hitch-hiking around New Zealand staying at Youth Hostels in the days when you could just walk into jobs off the street, she got on a plane to Sydney with $200 in the bank - to see the world. She didn't get past Australia! In Perth West Australia, in 1974, she got involved in the first famous campaign against foreign military bases in Australia, and was part of the 'Long March' across Australia against the USA base at North West Cape. She decided to return to New Zealand to become more politically involved, and ended up working for 6 years in a home appliance factory in Masterton and working as a Union activist on the factory floor. Penny was made redundant in 1981 and so went to Auckland to live. She was one of the 12 people who organised the anti- Springbok Tour protests in Auckland in 1981. This resulted in her being listed as one of 8 'subversives' on then Prime Minister Rob Muldoon's SIS list, although she has never been able to get a copy of her SIS file, and the GCSB would neither confirm or deny whether she was one of the 88 New Zealanders who had been unlawfully spied upon. After working for 4 years as an electronics assembler in a 'brown goods' factory, and being eventually sacked as a Union activist for being an arguably effective Union delegate, Penny did a welding course at (then) Auckland Institute of Technology (AIT). She was first employed as a welder and then ended up doing an adult apprenticeship in a stainless steel fabrication workshop qualifying in Advanced Trade in Sheet metal Engineering, where she became New Zealand's first female CBIP (Certification Board for Inspectorate Personnel) Welding Inspector. After doing some production planning, Penny became a Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, whose job it was to help ensure that pressure vessels didn't blow up, and  make sure that quality systems were in place so that the jobs that went out on the truck, were that which the sales people had promised, and the clients had ordered and paid for. After a change of company ownership when a number of people were made redundant Penny was subsequently hired as a Welding Tutor for 9 years at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), where she helped teach thousands of (mainly) men how to weld. So Penny had 16 years of working in a totally male-dominated environment. In 2000, she was made redundant from MIT, and having being fortunate enough to become mortgage-free that same year, Penny decided to work full-time on a self-funded basis on the political issues that she was involved with. These were mainly on the local government front, as a founding member of the Water Pressure Group against Auckland City Council's commercialised water services company Metrowater, and water privatisation. Penny has now been involved in local government issues in Auckland for the last 20 years. On the home front she has been together with ‘a lovely man’ who is hugely supportive of her, for over 10 years. Always campaigning with an element of humour, Penny signs her e-mails with, ‘Her Warship’. This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party http://www.theawarenessparty.com/home/ PENNY BRIGHT’S ACTION PLAN TO ENSURE 'OPEN, TRANSPARENT AND DEMOCRATICALLY ACCOUNTABLE' NZ GOVERNMENT AND JUDICIARY: 1) Make ALL 'facilitation payments' (BRIBES) illegal. 2) Legislate to create a NZ independent anti-corruption body, tasked with educating the public and preventing corruption. 3) Legislate for NZ Members of Parliament (who make the rules for everyone else) to have a legally enforceable 'Code of Conduct'. 4) Make it an offence under the Local Government Act 2002, for NZ Local Government elected representatives to breach their 'Code of Conduct'. 5) Make it lawful, mandatory requirement for Local Government elected representatives to complete a 'Register of Interests' which is available for public scrutiny. 6) Make it a lawful, mandatory requirement for Local Government staff, responsible for property or procurement, to complete a 'Register of Interests' which is available for public scrutiny. 7) Make it lawful, a mandatory requirement for Local Government Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) Directors and staff, responsible for property or procurement, to complete a 'Register of Interests' which is available for public scrutiny. 8) Fully implement and enforce the Public Records Act 2005, to ensure public records are available for public scrutiny. 9) Make it a lawful requirement that a 'cost-benefit' analysis of NZ Central Government and Local Government public finances must be undertaken, to prove that private procurement of public services previously provided 'in house' is cost-effective for the public majority of tax payers and rate payers. 10) Legislate for a legally enforceable 'Code of Conduct' for members of the NZ Judiciary, to ensure that they are not 'above the law'. 11) Legislate to provide a publicly-available NZ Judicial 'Register of Interests', to help prevent 'conflicts of interest'. 12) Ensure ALL  NZ Court proceedings are  recorded, with audio records available to parties who request them. 13) Legislate for a publicly-available NZ 'Register of Lobbyists, and  'Code of Conduct' for lobbyists. 14) Legislate for a 'post-separation employment' ('revolving door' ) quarantine period from the time officials leave the public service, to take up a similar role in the private sector.   15) Legislate to make it a lawful requirement that it is only a binding vote of the public majority that can determine whether public assets held at NZ central or local government are sold, or long-term leased via Public Private Partnerships. 16) Legislate to make it unlawful for politicians to knowingly misrepresent their policies prior to central or local government elections. 17) Legislate to protect individuals, NGOs and community-based organisations, who are 'whistle-blowing' against 'conflicts of interest' and and alleged corrupt practices at central and local government level and within the judiciary. 18) Legislate to prevent 'State Capture' - where vested interests get what they want, at the 'policy' level, before laws are passed which serve their vested interests. Policy of 2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate Penny Bright. www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz                              Authorised by Penny Bright 86A School Rd Kingsland Auckland               Want to help?  e-mail - waterpressure@gmail.com

John Miller has documented M­āori protest since the 1970's. As he sits with Maraea Rakuraku scrolling through images on his computer screen he relives the protest action outside Athletic Park, Wellington on the day of the Second Test of the Springbok Tour. Gerard Dobson was one of those protesting. Maraea then accompanies him to John Millers exhibition Tour Scrums featuring some of the photographs.

John Miller has documented M­āori protest since the 1970's. As he sits with Maraea Rakuraku scrolling through images on his computer screen he relives the protest action outside Athletic Park, Wellington on the day of the Second Test of the Springbok Tour. Gerard Dobson was one of those protesting. Maraea then accompanies him to John Millers exhibition Tour Scrums featuring some of the photographs.

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 period, where families divided, the catch-cry was 'politics and sports don't mix' and, South Africans Steve Biko (1946 - 1977) and Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013) become household names.

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 period, where families divided, the catch-cry was 'politics and sports don't mix' and, South Africans Steve Biko (1946 - 1977) and Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013) become household names.

Major Campbell Roberts is the creator and National Director of The Salvation Army's social policy and parliamentary unit. Here he is in conversation with Professor Murray Rae, Head of the Department of Theology and Religion. 26 June 2012.

Major Campbell Roberts is the creator and National Director of The Salvation Army's social policy and parliamentary unit. Here he is in conversation with Professor Murray Rae, Head of the Department of Theology and Religion. 26 June 2012.

Major Campbell Roberts is the creator and National Director of The Salvation Army’s social policy and parliamentary unit. Here he is in conversation with Professor Murray Rae, Head of the Department of Theology and Religion. 26 June 2012.