Here is the News - 1984 Snap Election Anouncement

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Here is the News - 1984 Snap Election Anouncement

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In this excerpt from 1992 documentary Here is the News, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon throws the political dice one last time. Ex TVNZ political reporter Jim Greenhough recalls the June night he and his colleagues crowded into a Beehive hallway to witness a visibly inebriated Muldoon call a snap election date of 14 July 1984. The Labour Party went on to win decisively; some say this ill-judged appearance was the moment that the Muldoon era sped towards its end. Muldoon's slurred answer to rep...

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1992

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/here-is-the-news-1984-snap-election-1992

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turning point / robert muldoon / 1984 / marilyn waring / snap election / national party / labour party / david lange / power / nz parliament / election / surprise / beehive / jim mclay / parliament / political reporter / devaluation / currency crisis / currency / crisis / finance / financial crisis / foreign exchange / exchange rate / labour opposition / national government / market intervention / national debt / nz dollar / foreign exchange market / treasury / rogernomics / prime minister / new zealand dollar / cabinet / economics / economy / foreign policy / national bankruptcy / debt / economic policy / eighties / 80s / 1980s

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