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Kōrero: Wellington region

Student protest

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Student protest

In support of its ANZUS partners, New Zealand joined in the Vietnam War in 1965. As the conflict intensified, public opposition grew. In this 1967 protest students march up Molesworth Street past Parliament, carrying a symbolic coffin. They opposed the visit of an American mission to Wellington. The lone figure at the front carries a different message.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1967/3661/1A-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Chris Maclean, Wellington region – New growth and attitudes: 1940–1975, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13276/student-protest (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Chris Maclean, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.