Live updates from one of the wildest days in NZ politics (40 years ago)
The Spinoff Daily, Thursday June 20
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Today on The Spinoff: A complete history of New Zealand’s one-term governments, a mood shift on house prices and how not to be an arsehole when you don’t like someone’s parking.
“In a ranking of the most dramatic, unhinged days in New Zealand politics, July 16, 1984 would be right up there. David Lange would later call the day ‘perhaps the most extraordinary of my life in politics’ and he was yet to be sworn in as prime minister.
Sadly (or mercifully, depending on your point of view), this day, a couple of days after the 1984 election, elapsed long before the advent of live blogs, podcasts and all that. But let not such details stand in the way. With the considerable benefit of hindsight and creative licence, here’s July 16, 1984, as it happened.”
Listen to episode 2 of Juggernaut – ‘The Nation Is at Risk’
Victory for Lange in 1984 comes with a cluster of economic and constitutional crises. Roger Douglas launches a revolution, to transform New Zealand’s creaking economy from the developed world’s most regulated to its most market embracing.
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