Story: Seafood

The Fish and Chip Brigade

The Fish and Chip Brigade

After being snapped eating fish and chips late one evening in 1980, these four Labour politicians (from left), David Lange, Michael Bassett, Roger Douglas and Mike Moore, became known as the Fish and Chip Brigade.

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Photograph by Geoff Dale

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Maggy Wassilieff, 'Seafood - Favourite Kiwi fare', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/5099/the-fish-and-chip-brigade (accessed 22 March 2023)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 12 Jun 2006