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Having suffered eight years of uncertainy and misery during the Depression, New Zealanders turned to Labour for a better future. On the 70th anniversary, we look back at what led to that momentous decision.

By Tony Simpson In Uncategorized

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3rd December, 2005
The Depression was greyness. That's a physical reaction. It's the only way that I can describe a sort of hopelessness that seemed to spread around among people who, in the earlier parts of their lives, had been accustomed to security. It was the result of the discovery, a shock really, a discovery that life was not secure any longer. Of all the things that people said to me when I was interviewing for The Sugarbag Years in the early 70s, that's the one that has stuck in my mind. There were plenty of wrenching stories about individual hardship, and others about people getting together ...

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