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Skinheads

A member of the United National Front Nazi Party relaxes with his girlfriend in Christchurch in 1990. His shaved head and high lace-up boots represent the 'skinhead' style, which many white-supremacist groups adopted from the 1980s. Swastika symbols were also a common feature of such groups. The 'skinhead' style had been first adopted by British working-class groups.

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Paul Spoonley, Ethnic and religious intolerance – Anti-Semitism and neo-fascism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28191/skinheads (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Paul Spoonley, published 17 February 2011.