Unable to mobilise anything like 170,000 people for their own causes groups, including Toitu Te Tiriti and Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa sought to piggyback upon the children’s crusade.

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...