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… joined the Jesus marches of 1972 than marched against the Vietnam War. Labour Prime Minister Norman Kirk forged a friendship … had little effect on Māori until after the Second World War. As growing numbers left rural communities for the city … Towards secularism and religious diversity, 1970–21st century …
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Part of story: Religion and society
… changes in herbicide use came after the Second World War, when the phenoxy herbicides 2,4-D and MCPA were … ingredient in Agent Orange, a defoliant used extensively in Vietnam. This was associated with birth deformities, cancer …
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Part of story: Weeds of agriculture
… poetry scene of the generation born after the Second World War: the so-called ‘baby boomers’. Like The P hoenix , Freed … confident young writers. Their work reflected a turn towards American poetic influences, as well as the cultural … 1960s: sexual and ‘chemical’ liberation, opposition to the Vietnam War, television, rock music and American …
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Part of story: Poetry
… traditional union concerns, wider social issues such as the Vietnam War and apartheid were now hotly debated at FoL conferences. … arbitration but left intact compulsory unionism, blanket award coverage and the unions’ exclusive right to represent …
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Part of story: Unions and employee organisations
… relations and international affairs during the Cold War. Above all, he was best known for his ardent defence of … democratic order that prevailed in the West after the war, and of the socialist world. He was, in turn, a … and protest movements, including the nuclear-free, anti-Vietnam war, and anti-apartheid movements, and the movement …
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… preparing a thesis on Marlborough’s political history, was awarded an MA with second-class honours in 1930. In March … establishing networks that would serve him well later. Awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, … force to assist the Americans in preserving the Republic of Vietnam, largely on the grounds that not to do so would …
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… lost her religious faith and, fired by the civil war in Spain, joined the Communist Party. She travelled in … a BA Oxon Class II Honours. Her MA was conferred in 1942. War years Shirley returned home to Wellington in the early … for Nuclear Disarmament (New Zealand), and she opposed the Vietnam War. She served as long-term honorary solicitor for …
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… from 1931 to 1933 as a shepherd on his family’s farm, Seaward Valley, near Kaikōura. He worked for the next two years … deafness saw him placed on the reserve as the Second World War ended. Shand returned to Seaward Valley and took a farm … a strong supporter of sending New Zealand troops to South Vietnam in 1965. Shand was an enquiring but decisive …
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… Spiro Agnew visited New Zealand in 1970, anti-Vietnam War protesters staged a noisy sit-in outside his Auckland … Āwhiro, for a military airfield during the Second World War – and was later turned into a golf course. She wanted it …
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Part of story: Public protest
… of society. His pursuit of greater Māori–Pākehā unity, his warm and respectful relationship with Māori and his … unique features of his term in office. Early life Bernard Edward Fergusson was born in London, England, on 6 May 1911, … he found particularly difficult in relation to the Vietnam War; he was disappointed at what he considered the …
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… had been a conscientious objector during the First World War. Millicent had successfully studied languages at Newnham … He wrote a number of polemical poems protesting against the Vietnam War, and Poetry Magazine published A selection of … university life. He continued protesting against the war in Vietnam and enjoyed satirising university prohibitions …
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… night-fighters in 1945, but did not see combat. During his wartime service Smith was active in party work, both in New … Peace Council, and then in the 1960s the Committee on Vietnam. Campaigns against United States bases in New … freedom to devote himself to the Coalition Against Nuclear Warships (CANWAR) in Wellington, of which he was a prominent …
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… at the University of Grenoble, but with the outbreak of war was interned as an enemy alien. Through contacts his … as a timber-yard worker at C. & A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Company in Petone; and as an apprentice carpenter with … the left during various campaigns, particularly against the Vietnam War. With characteristic mischievousness, he …
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… New Zealand Railways from 1939 through the Second World War, and attained his trade certificate in 1944. He joined the New Zealand Communist Party in 1942. After the war, he served in Japan with Jayforce (the New Zealand … to literary events – readings, an appearance at an anti-Vietnam War rally with American folk singer Pete Seeger, …
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… This was a sign of things to come. During the Second World War, aged 17, Andersen joined the crew of the Pamir , a … flag. He reached San Francisco, and spent the rest of the war on Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and British merchant ships. … tour of South Africa, unemployment, rising prices, the Vietnam War, the undermining of Māori land rights and the …
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… from Ana Hato and Gracie Fields to Īnia Te Wīata and the Howard Morrison Quartet, and in the 2000s it still had a place … Sonata for solo v iola was a visceral protest against the Vietnam War. …
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Part of story: Composers
… victims for injuries caused through crime. Robson was aware that neither government measures nor penal policies … resign, concerned chaplains’ rights to oppose publicly the Vietnam War. Robson’s other great interest was administrative law. …
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… her opinions about violence as a solution to problems, war was declared. Her ardent response to speeches by … on Victoria University College. In 1940 she met Charles Edward Mercer (also known as Charlie) Davies. They found they … writing and working on nuclear arms and testing, the Vietnam war took priority. At the 1968 Peace, Power and …
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… shared her special gifts for intelligent conversation and warm friendship. This compulsion to exchange and debate … to her mother. Marriage and motherhood The Second World War created romantic urgency, but also curtailed some … challenge to Christian orthodoxy, protest against the Vietnam War, a woman’s right to choose. In 1964 Trevor …
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… life and relationships, these exacerbated his tendency towards depression and led to a creative cul-de-sac. Shadbolt … tales’. 6 This impulse informed the trilogy of New Zealand Wars novels, Season of the Jew (1986), Monday’s warriors … lent weight to his role campaigning in print against the Vietnam War for a decade from 1965. In 1972, as part of the …
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