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Biography: Lange, David Russell

Links and sources

Websites

David Lange Memorial Trust

The website of the trust which has erected a memorial to David Lange in Ōtāhuhu. It includes a video of excerpts from Lange’s participation in the Oxford Union debate in 1985.

Obituary: David Russell Lange - National - NZ Herald News

A substantial obituary from the New Zealand Herald newspaper.

Premiers and Prime Ministers

More information and short biographies about New Zealand premiers and prime ministers are available in this NZHistory feature.

Face to Face with Kim Hill: David Lange

A 2003 television interview with Lange, on the NZ On Screen site.

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Bibliography

Bassett, M. Working with David: inside the Lange cabinet. Auckland, 2008

Clark, Margaret, ed. For the record: Lange and the fourth Labour government.Wellington: Dunmore, 2005.

Franks, P. and J. McAloon. Labour: the New Zealand Labour Party, 1916–2016​. Wellington, 2016

Hensley, G.C. Friendly fire: nuclear politics and the collapse of ANZUS. Auckland, 2013

James, Colin. New territory: the transformation of New Zealand, 1984–92. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1992.

Holland, Martin & Jonathan Boston, eds. The fourth Labour government: politics and policy in New Zealand. 2nd ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Johansson, Jon. Two titans. Muldoon, Lange and leadership. Wellington: Dunmore, 2005.

Lange, David. My life. Auckland: Viking, 2005.

Lange, David. Nuclear free: the New Zealand way. Auckland: Penguin, 1990.

Pope, M. At the turning point: my political life with David Lange. Auckland, 2011

How to cite this page

Barry Gustafson. 'Lange, David Russell', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/136127/sources (accessed 5 June 2026).