1981 Springbok Tour Police

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Police baton anti-tour protesters outside Parliament ...

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Police and anti-tour protesters clash, Wellington (Alexander Turnbull Library, EP/1981/2622/13A-F) Up to 2000 anti-Springbok tour protesters were confronted by police who used batons to stop them marching up Molesworth St to the home of South Africa’s Consul (ambassador) to New Zealand.

Film: police and the first test - 1981 Springbok tour ...

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Aug 02, 2013 · Blue Squad member Pete Carrington gives a police view of the first test against the Springbok rugby team in 1981. Film: police and the first test - 1981 Springbok tour NZHistory, New Zealand history online

Police: Red Squad - 1981 Springbok Tour

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Police: Red Squad - 1981 Springbok Tour The police police were a key group in the protest actions surrounding the 1981 Springbok tour. Namely, the red squad which were the infamous riot control group which were given the task of keeping the protesters at bay during the rugby tour.

Inside the 1981 Springbok tour - Noted

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Jul 08, 2011 · Thirty years after the 1981 Springbok rugby tour, Police have given the Listener access to previously classified documents. Looking back, the violence of a secret police training session was an indication of what was to come. It was June 1981.

Red Squad - Springbok Tour Protests 1981

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Key Historical Idea: As a result of the 1981 Springbok Tour going ahead an elite police force nick named the Red Squad was formed to control Anti-Tour protestors. The Red Squad was formed to handle non-violent disruptions by anti-tour groups. They were dressed in riot gear and were equipped with long batons that were 60 cm long and riot helmets.

Springbok Tour 1981 - Wellington City Libraries

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Introduction "A woman show signs of battle after protesters and red squad police clashed at the Luxford Street-Rintoul Street intersection during anti Springbok tour demonstrations in Wellington, 1981." Footnote [3.] The rivalry between the Springboks and the All Blacks is one of the longest and most enduring between two sporting nations.

The night of the batons: still defiant 30 years on Stuff ...

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CONFRONTATION: Baton-weilding police and demonstrators clash in Molesworth St, with Parliament in the background, during the Springbok rugby tour protest of July 29, 1981. The veterans of the 1981...

1981: The year New Zealand roared The Australian Women's ...

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Jul 29, 2016 · John Minto voicing his protest to the Springbok Rugby Tour in 1981. John Minto joined HART (Halt All Racist Tours) in the mid-1970s in Napier. In 1977 he moved to Auckland and became secretary of the protest group.

Perspectives - 1981 Springbok Tour protests

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Trevor Richards however, says that the 1981 Springbok Tour Protests were mainly about racism and a now bygone fanaticism for rugby, with an element of 'anti-Muldoonism'. He believes the protests would not have happened if there hadn't been such strong feelings about the Springboks being in New Zealand.

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