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Biography: Andersen, Gordon Harold (Bill)

Extract from The hammer and the anvil

In this excerpt from the 1979 documentary The hammer and the anvil, Bill Andersen talks about the evolution of New Zealand’s trade union movement towards the militancy of the 1970s.

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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Reference: F6407 – The Hammer and the Anvil (1979). From material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Courtesy of DFFB Productions, Gerd Pohlman and the Estate of Merata Mita.

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Cybèle Locke. 'Andersen, Gordon Harold (Bill)', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47148/extract-from-the-hammer-and-the-anvil (accessed 25 June 2026).