The politics of 'wide purposes' – how Norman Kirk still speaks to 21st century New Zealand
- Written by: Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University
Getty Images The 1970s may have been a time of flared jeans, paisley shirts and long hair. But the decade was also a time of resistance to such outward signs of modernity and progress. And very briefly, it was also the time of Norman Kirk, who as Labour prime minister between 1972 and 1974 managed to straddle those two New Zealands.
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