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New Zealand has seen many demonstrations, strikes, marches and campaigns by protesters voicing opinions against wars, laws and events. Explore activists and protests like Bastion Point, The Land March and the 1981 Springbok tour. SCIS No. 1831901

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Taihoa Bastion Point

Taihoa Bastion Point

Poster produced in protest to the proposed land subdivision of Bastion Point, Auckland, by the Government and real estate developers. Silhouette of Bastion Point and Rangitoto Island. Black text on...

Roadside Stories: Reclaiming Bastion Point

After European settlement of Auckland, the lands of Ngāti Whātua were gradually whittled away, and the harbourside area of Takaparawhau (Bastion Point) was taken by the Crown for defence purposes. ...

Bastion Point - The Untold Story

Bastion Point - The Untold Story

In 1977 protesters occupied Bastion Point, after the announcement of a housing development on land once belonging to Ngāti Whātua. On 25 May 1978, police and army arrived en masse to remove them. T...

1975 land march

1975 land march

A group of Māori walk along a Northland country road near the beginning of the 1975 hīkoi (march) to Wellington. The march was a protest against the continued alienation of traditional Māori lands.

Protest against rape culture at Parliament

Protest against rape culture at Parliament

Hundreds of students protested against rape culture outside Parliament.

Anti-apartheid protest, 1970

Anti-apartheid protest, 1970

Anti-apartheid demonstrators protest about an All Black rugby tour to South Africa, 1970

Students should strike on Friday (and they should be punished for it)

An Auckland secondary school teacher has some thoughts on the students 2019 climate protest.

Irish protest poster

Irish protest poster

Poster in protest at government's exclusion of Irishmen from the benefits of passages to Wellington Province The New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian has a report of this meeting of Fri...

Hōne Heke's protest

Hōne Heke's protest

In July 1844 Ngāpuhi chief Hōne Heke organised the felling of the flagpole above Kororāreka.

Kiwi railway station: 1955 protesters

Kiwi railway station: 1955 protesters

On 23 September 1955 former teacher Ruth Page and four other women drove from Nelson to the small station at Kiwi, where they and others sat in the goods shed and on the railway lines for a week. T...

MAdGE's pink protest

MAdGE's pink protest

Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) stand in a picket line outside Parliament following their eviction from the public gallery for stripping off their tops to reveal pink bras and creating ...

Anti-Vietnam war poster, 1970

Anti-Vietnam war poster, 1970

Poster produced for the July 1970 anti-Vietnam War 'mobilisation'

Mrs Carol Sefisi and family protesting

Mrs Carol Sefisi and family protesting

Mrs Carol Sefisi and family protesting about the effects of railways suspensions. She is pushing a pram with the poster "Who will pay for my milk". Two children are carrying a large banner which st...

Anti nuclear-powered vessel protest poster

Anti nuclear-powered vessel protest poster

This poster is about the risk of allowing nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels to visit New Zealand ports. It was published by Campaign for Non-Nuclear Futures (active 1976-77) which organised ...

PR 24 baton

The Monadnock PR 24 baton was introduced by the New Zealand Police in the early 1980s for riot control. It replaced the previous shorter baton. Operation Rugby The Police’s code-name for the 1981 ...

Injured secondary school student Ref: EP/1981/2623/21-F

Injured secondary school student Ref: EP/1981/2623/21-F

Injured secondary school student during an anti Springbok rugby tour demonstration in Wellington.

This badge or brooch cleverly combines the international CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) symbol with the kiwi – the internationally understood symbol of New Zealanders. Campaign for Nuclear...

Protest music Aotearoa

Protest music Aotearoa

A discussion on New Zealand's protest music.

Loose Enz - The Protesters

Loose Enz - The Protesters

The powerhouse, largely Māori cast of this teleplay includes Jim Moriarty, Merata Mita, Billy T James (as a Marxist) and, in his acting debut, Zac Wallace (star of Utu). The Protesters explores iss...

Hundreds protest against Ashburton water sale

Hundreds protest against Ashburton water sale

Around 200 protestors have walked through Ashburton to take a strong stance against selling local water.

Public protest: protest marches

A protest march is a procession of people along streets or roads to publicise a grievance. Marches use symbols and rituals such as flags, banners, placards, songs and chants that express the identi...

Te Rārawa leader and woman of mana Dame Whina Cooper spent her whole life fighting for Māori land rights. As a 79-year old she led Māori land protest marchers as they walked from Te Hāpua (in the f...

Children of the revolution

Children of the revolution

This documentary explores the 1970s/80s protest movement through six key activists and their children.

Te Whiti states he will never stop protesting.

Māori land march, 1975

Māori land march, 1975

Thousands of Māori and Pākehā took part in the 1975 hīkoi (land march) from the Far North to Parliament, headed by the elderly Hokianga community leader Whina Cooper. This film extract shows Cooper...

'STOP The '81 Tour' badge

'STOP The '81 Tour' badge

This badge was made by HART (Halt All Racist Tours) for protesters to wear during the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. The split black and white heart motif was the most well-known symbol of the anti-Spr...

Environmental activists in Wellington, 1972

Environmental activists in Wellington, 1972

Ecology Action Group demonstrators in Wellington carrying crosses listing ecological disasters, 31 July 1972

Forest protesters region, 1978

Pureora forest protesters, 1978

Protesters against logging camp in Pureora Forest treetops.

New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union: waterfront lockout '51 certificate

New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union: waterfront lockout '51 certificate

Arrangement of text with a border of rope, and a picture at top left of two waterside workers at work. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) inside spread of card.. Physical Description: O...

Unionist protest march, Cuba Street

Unionist protest march, Cuba Street

Union march at the intersection of Cuba and Dixon Streets, Wellington, taken 2 May 1951 during the Waterfront Strike by Photo News Ltd. Unionists are met by police officers as they arrive at Dixon ...

Patrolling Auckland wharves, 1913

Patrolling against protesters Auckland wharves, 1913

Special constables patrolling Quay Street and the entrance to the wharves, Auckland, 1913

Homosexual Law Reform submission

Homosexual Law Reform submission

Amidst bitter controversy and protest the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was passed on 9 July 1986, and enacted a month later on 8 August. The Bill overturned a long history of opposition to sexual act...

Protest against petition opposing the Homosexual Law Reform Bill

Protest against petition opposing the Homosexual Law Reform Bill

Demonstrators voice their opposition to the presentation of a petition opposing the Homosexual Law Reform Bill at Parliament, Wellington. Photograph taken 24 September 1985 by Evening Post staff ph...

A bulldog in Moutoa Gardens during the occupation

A bulldog in Moutoa Gardens during the protest occupation

Bugger, an English bulldog, sitting in the Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui. Beyond him can be seen the war memorial, a tent and a notice protesting that the Moutoa Gardens are Maori land and should be re...

EDITORIAL No Maoris No Tour - (Te Ao Hou - No. 54 March 1966)

EDITORIAL No Maoris No Tour - (Te Ao Hou - No. 54 March 1966)

This article was written prior to the meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union held on February 25 at which councillors were to decide upon a reply to the South African invitation to send an...

Anti-fur protest Ref: DCDL-0000313

Anti-fur protest Ref: DCDL-0000313

In this cartoon, a husband and wife stand outside a fashion week venue. The husband wonders if anyone cares, not realising that behind is a gigantic bear.

Rentpayers’ protest

Unemployment demonstration, Lambton Quay, Wellington

Unemployment demonstration, Lambton Quay, Wellington

Unemployment demonstration, Lambton Quay, 10 May, 1932. Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. A riot followed this protest. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Descripti...

Massey's Cossacks

Massey's Cossacks

The 1913 waterfront dispute saw wharf workers take over the main ports and stop trade. Prime Minister William Massey called for farmers and rural labourers to enlist as special constables to help r...

HMNZS Otago

HMNZS Otago nuclear protest

HMNZS Otago at the Mururoa nuclear test zone in 1973.

Facing Down the Bomb – a protest at Mururoa 1973

Facing Down the Bomb – a protest at Mururoa 1973

In 1973, at just 19 years of age, Anna Horne sailed with three others to Mururoa to oppose nuclear testing by France. But rather than witnessing a bomb being detonated, she watched the skipper bein...

Whina Cooper

Once referred to as “the Mother of the Nation,” Whina Cooper first came to public attention as a leader of the 1975 protest hikoi that marched from Te Hāpua in Northland to Parliament demanding a h...

GE protest poster

GE protest poster

This provocative poster of a woman being milked was produced by MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering). MAdGE was a prominent activist group which was against the genetic engineering of food. ...

1932 Cuba Street riot

1932 Cuba Street riot

With the advent of the Depression in 1929, things took a turn for the worse for many Wellington families. The Public Service cut salaries and many manual labourers lost their jobs or found it impos...

HISTORY of discrimination cartoon

HISTORY of discrimination cartoon

Legislation to end discrimination and advance equity in society has always met with protest. This has ranged from opposition to extending the vote to women (New Zealand was the first country in the...

Relief workers

Relief workers protest pamphlet

As portrayed in Renee’s play Wednesday to Come this Labour Party pamphlet protests against the appalling conditions in some of the New Zealand relief camps during the Great Depression. In these cam...

Mururoa cartoon

Mururoa cartoon

The French Polynesian island of Mururoa is an island in the Pacific ocean. It was here the French conducted underground and atmospheric tests of nuclear bombs from the 1960s to the 1990s. New Zeala...

Anti-tour clash

Anti-tour clash

This dramatic photograph shows Kiwis fighting each other in the streets of Auckland, but why? It's 1981, the Springbok tour has begun and the two opposing protest factions - those passionate about ...

Vacant Lot of Cabbages: Weird & Wonderful NZ Stories

Vacant Lot of Cabbages: Weird & Wonderful NZ Stories

A public protest with an unusual culinary twist! "Weird and Wonderful" series created by DigitalNZ's Community Manager exploring the fun and eccentric parts of our history.

Auckland protest against submarine USS Haddo in 1979

Auckland protest against submarine USS Haddo in 1979

Nuclear power and nuclear weapons were big issues in the 1970s. For a growing number of New Zealanders at this time, American warships were not welcome in New Zealand Ports. They might be carrying ...

School students strike for climate change

Principals are facing a dilemma over the March 15 2019 school strike for climate change – should they punish students who wag school to protest, or encourage them?

T-shirt, 'Free...Nelson Mandela'

T-shirt, 'Free...Nelson Mandela'

This T-shirt bears a familiar face – Nelson Mandela – who became known all over the world as a symbol of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and a hero of African liberation. Governments...

Our trail of tears: the story of Ihumātao

The protest at Ihumātao has deep roots in the legacy of colonialism and land confiscation.

Women's March T-shirt

Women's March T-shirt

This t-shirt was worn by many protestors on the Women's Marches held throughout New Zealand on 21 January 2017. The Women's March on Washington organisers designed a strong graphic identity which c...

Decades of Change

The 60s, 70s and 80s were rowdy decades. Kiwis were getting out in the streets and raising their voices about the rights of Māori, women and LGBT people, nuclear energy, the environment.

No Maoris No Tour

No Maoris No Tour

Small pamphlet of "an account of the history and progress of the protest movement in New Zealand against the exclusion of Maori players form the 1960 New Zealand rugby team to tour South Africa.".

Meet the school students leading New Zealand’s climate strikes

A new short film Rise profiles some of the country’s youngest protest organisers as they take to the streets to lead one of the generation’s biggest protest marches.

Vietnam War protest

Vietnam War protest

Opponents of the Vietnam War protest outside Parliament in 1965. Their sign appeals directly to cabinet not to send New Zealand troops to the war. New Zealand was a member of the ANZUS alliance bet...

Freedom to Sing – NZ Protest Songs

This Spotlight collection from NZ On Screen brings together some of Aotearoa's greatest protest songs.

Foreshore and seabed hīkoi

Foreshore and seabed hīkoi

Protester with tino rangatiratanga flag during the New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy.

Moko: Protest at every Court in tribute to Moko

Hundreds of people in Rotorua protested against the reduced charges and consequently much shorter sentence faced by Moko’s killers.

EPIC contains databases with useful information relating to New Zealand protests like Australia New Zealand Reference Centre Plus, Gale Biography and Bridget Williams Books, NZ History Collection...

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Nuclear-free New Zealand

Nuclear-free New Zealand

New Zealand is a nuclear-free zone, which means no nuclear weapons or nuclear powered ships are allowed in our...

Senior Secondary

1981 Springbok tour

1981 Springbok tour

Many Answers has information about the 1981 Springbok tour.

Senior Secondary

Māori Land March 1975

Māori Land March 1975

On 13 September 1975, around 5000 people marched from Te Hāpua in the North Island down to Wellington. This Māori...

Junior Secondary

Dame Whina Cooper (1895-1994)

Dame Whina Cooper (1895-1994)

Dame Whina Cooper, of Te Rarawa descent, was born in 1895 in northern Hokianga. She is best known for leading the...

Junior Secondary

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