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Dr Jenny Carlyon and Dr Diana Morrow are prominent New Zealand histo- rians. They are the authors of Urban Village: The Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary’s Bay (2008) and A Fine Prospect: A History of Remuera, Meadowbank and St Johns (2011). Carlyon has a PhD in History from the University of Auckland and the French qualification Licence d’histoire (equiv- alent to a BA). Since returning to New Zealand she has worked as a teacher and a researcher/writer for major corporates, run a small business and is now a professional historian. Morrow was born in Canada, came to New Zealand in 1980 and gained her PhD in History from Victoria University of Wellington in 1997. She has worked as an archivist, an interpretive consultant/researcher/ writer for museums, a tutor and part-time lecturer and a professional historian for the Waitangi Tribunal and the Office of Treaty Settlements. She is also the co-editor of the books City of Enterprise: Perspectives on Auckland Business History (2006) and Jewish Lives in New Zealand (2012). CHANGING TIMES NEW ZEALAND SINCE 1945 JENNY CARLYON & DIANA MORROW First published 2013 Auckland University Press University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland 1142 New Zealand www.press.auckland.ac.nz © Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow, 2013 ISBN 978 1 86940 782 7 Publication is kindly assisted by National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Carlyon, Jenny, 1951- Changing times : New Zealand since 1945 / Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-86940-782-7 1. New Zealand—History—1945-1984. 2. New Zealand—History —1984- 3. New Zealand—Social conditions—20th century. 4. New Zealand—Economic conditions—20th century. I. Morrow, Diana. II. Title. 993.035—dc 23 This book is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior permission of the publisher. Cover design: Keely O’Shannessy Front cover: New Zealanders at a political street-corner meeting in 1969. Marti Friedlander Back cover: A Wellington street scene, 1957. EP/1957/4783-F, Evening Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, courtesy of Fairfax Media Printed by Everbest Printing Co., China CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Introduction Unforeseen Directions: After 1945 1 One On an Even Keel? Peace, Prosperity, Consensus 6 Two Loosening the Bonds: New Friends, New Enemies 44 Three Creating New Zealand: Culture and Character 73 Four Leisure and Popular Pastimes: Unsettling Influences 111 Five In Ferment: Contested and Protested Values 150 Six Schisms: A Society Divided 183 Seven Feminism and Gay Rights: Liberation and its Legacy 211 Eight Race Relations: Renaissance and Reassessment 247 Nine Transformations: Doing the Impossible 284 Ten ‘Focused by Events’: A Second Wave of Reform 317 Eleven Shifting Tides: Maori, Pakeha and the Treaty after 1984 344 Twelve A Plaited Rope: Immigration and its Impact 381 Conclusion The ‘Earthly Paradise’ Transformed 414 Notes 421 Select Bibliography 484 Index 498 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to Auckland University Press for suggesting the idea of a New Zealand history focusing on the post-1945 period. While this seemed a daunt- ing prospect at the outset, Sam Elworthy, Anna Hodge, Christine O’Brien and Katrina Duncan have, through their respective expertise, eased the task con- siderably. We are grateful, too, to Mike Wagg for his meticulous copy-editing, Claire Gummer for proofreading and Diane Lowther for indexing. We are indebted to a great many historians, past and present, whose work we have drawn on in this book. Thanks also to Geoff Ricketts, Rina van Bohemen, Rhys Harrison and Daniel Morrow, who read chapters at various stages of completion; Cathy Marr, Principal Research Analyst, Waitangi Tribunal, for fielding queries; Redmer Yska for helping us with bodgies and widgies; Robin Congreve, Peter Simpson, Linda Bryder, Peter Graham, Bryce Wilkinson and Brian Gaynor for advice and assistance; Steve Heap for solving Jenny’s com- puter glitches; and research librarians at the University of Auckland, Auckland City Libraries, Alexander Turnbull Library, Archives New Zealand, Canterbury Museum and Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, for their assistance. We are also grateful for permission to include copyright material in the book. Thank you to photographers Peter Bush, Marti Friedlander, Gil Hanly, John Miller and Ans Westra and to Dinah Morrison for the use of Robin Morrison photographs. Many thanks also to those who granted us permission to use other visuals. Natalie Marshall and Heather Mathie at the Alexander Turnbull Library and Keith Giles at Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland City Libraries, were helpful with image assistance, as well as for- bearing. Thanks also go to Paul Millar and John Baxter, Charles Brasch lit- erary executor Alan Roddick, Rob Campbell, Rupert Glover and Pia Glover, Alexandra Smithyman and Rob Tuwhare (honetuwharepoetry@gmail) for per- mission to reproduce lines from the work of James K. Baxter, Charles Brasch, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Denis Glover, Mary Stanley and Hone Tuwhare. Finally, as always, we are especially grateful to our husbands, Rick Carlyon and John Morrow, for their ongoing encouragement and support. Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow vii

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