Poster, 'from somewhere in (the) "South Pacific" David Lange sings'

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Title

Poster, 'from somewhere in (the) "South Pacific" David Lange sings'

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This poster celebrates New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange's Labour Government's anti-nuclear stance in the mid 1980s. The poster plays on the song 'I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair' from the famous Broadway musical 'South Pacific' by Rodgers and Hammerstein. 'That man' is United States President Ronald Reagan, whose Navy visited New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. At issue was whether these ships were nuclear-armed as well as nuclear-powered. American policy was to 'neither confir...

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Format

Image

Date created

1985

Creator

Mark Denton / Redletter Press

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1293637

Related subjects

David Lange / Ronald Reagan / Protest movements / Nuclear weapons / nuclear power / paper / ink / plastic laminate / posters / political posters / screen printing / Australia

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