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Grey Power protest

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Grey Power protest

Grey Power was the best-known older people's lobby group in New Zealand. These Hutt City Grey Power members were protesting against the introduction of asset testing for access to national superannuation (state pension) payments in 1995.

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

Reference: EP/1995/1672/26

by Phil Reid

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Peggy Koopman-Boyden, Older people – Politics and advocacy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26713/grey-power-protest (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peggy Koopman-Boyden, published 22 March 2011.