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No forbidden fruit

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No forbidden fruit

T-shirts with slogans were used by apple growers in a 2005 march protesting against an Australian ban on New Zealand apple exports. The procession heads up Wellington’s Molesworth Street towards the Australian High Commission. In 2011 the World Trade Organisation ruled that the ban was illegal.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dylan Owen Collection

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by Dylan Owen

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Ben Schrader, Parades and protest marches – Protest marches, 1980s to 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21128/no-forbidden-fruit (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 26 February 2010.