social studies meme

hollyford road

(this is not my own opinion)

I believe that building the road from Haast to Milford sounds is a good idea because it would give Milford sounds and Haast way more tourism. If the road was built it would cut off a couple of hours travel

rainbow warrioor

In 1985 the french government sent spies to blow up the greenpeace boat.Britain,America,New Zealand and soviet government banned atmospheric tests, but india,china and france didn’t sign the treaty.1973 new zealand and australian governments to the international court of justice trying to ban the nuclear tests but france ignored the court's ruling to stop the testing.In 1984 it was election year and labour had New Zealand as a nuclear free country and by the end of the year nearly forty towns agreed to this and labour decided to ban nuclear powered ships or armed ships. Then on july 10 1985 they blew up the rainbow warrior just before midnight at the marsden wharf in auckland. The two that bombed the rainbow warrior were later arrested on july 24.

springbok tour 1981 supporter rugby side

Imagine if you came to a rugby game just wanting to watch a game of rugby when these protesters came to the game and slowed it down by chucking flour bombs onto the field. Mainly the apartheid law in south Africa so black people didn’t have the same rights as white people springboks didn’t want Maori players in the test games. That's why the protesters were protesting against the test matches. After the protesters couldn’t get their way passively they resulted in violence to get into the stadium.This is what south African journalist said about the test “BAD ENOUGH HAVING TO PLAY OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED NEW ZEALAND NATIVES, BUT SPECTACLE THOUSANDS EUROPEANS FRANTICALLY CHEERING ON BAND OF COLOURED MEN TO DEFEAT MEMBERS OF OWN RACE WAS TOO MUCH FOR SPRINGBOKS WHO FRANKLY DISGUSTED.”