Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government is a podcast in six parts for the Spinoff Podcast Network, made with the support of NZ On Air.

 

Host & Writer: Toby Manhire

Producer: Sophie Dowson

Audio Editor & Sound Designer: Te Aihe Butler

Executive Producers: Jane Yee, Duncan Greive & Toby Manhire

Researchers: Hanna Lu & Rachel Judkins

Graphic Designer: Archi Banal

Video Editor: Isaiah Tour

Thank you to Judith Fyfe, Linda Evans, Pip Oldham, Steve Russell, Finlay Macdonald, Amber Easby, Mad Chapman, Anna Rawhiti-Connell, Jin Fellet, Ben Fagan, Claire Mabey, Rebecca Macfie, Bernard Hickey, James Hollings, Mary-Louise MacPherson-Hall, Boxcutter and everyone who made the time to speak with us.

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Bassett, Michael, Working with David: Inside the Lange cabinet, Hodder Moa, 2008

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Carlyon, Jenny and Diana Morrow, Changing times New Zealand since 1945, AUP, 2013

Clark, Margaret (ed), For the record: Lange and the fourth Labour Government, Dunmore Publishing, 2006

Cullen, Michael, Labour Saving, Allen & Unwin, 2021

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Douglas, Roger, Unfinished Business, Random House, 1993

Easton, Brian, The Commercialisation of New Zealand, AUP, 1999

Easton, Brian (ed), The Making of Rogernomics, AUP, 1989.

Fyfe, Judith and Hugo Manson (eds), The Gamble: the Campaign Diary of the Challengers, Australia NZ, 1986 

Grant, David, Anderton: His Life and Times, THUO, 2022

Gustafson, Barry, His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon, AUP, 2000

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Hensley, Gerald, Friendly fire: nuclear politics and the collapse of ANZUS, 1984–1987,

Jesson, Bruce, Behind the Mirror Glass, Penguin, 1987

Jesson, Bruce, Fragments of Labour: the story behind the Labour government, Penguin, 1989

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Kelsey, Jane, A Question of Honour? Labour and the Treaty, 1984-1989, Allen & Unwin, 1990

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Lange, Naomi, Itineraries, Daphne Brasell, 1990

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Russell, Marcia, Revolution: New Zealand from fortress to free market, Images, 1996

Scott, Tom, Drawn Out, Allen & Unwin, 2017

Sheppard, Simon, Broken Circle: the Decline and Fall of the Fourth Labour Government, PSL, 1999

Stratford, Stephen, The Dirty Decade: New Zealand in the 80s, Tandem, 2002

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Waring, Marilyn, In the Lifetime of a Goat: Writings, 1984-2000, BWB 2001

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Workman, Kim, Journey Towards Justice, BWB, 2018

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Video/audio sources

Revolution

Five Days in July

Someone Else’s Country

Sale of a Nation

Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power

Reluctant Revolutionary

Fallout

Class of 87

The Ninth Floor, RNZ

Eyewitness, Crisis: Who Runs the Country? RNZ

Archival audio

Episode one:  I Love You, Mr Lange

Archival audio in this podcast from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga

Sound & Vision:

ID26659 MORNING REPORT. 1984-06-14, [SNAP ELECTION ANNOUNCED].

ID21666 SIR ROBERT MULDOON – COMPILATION

ID253603 INSIGHT ’82. THAT WAS 1982.

ID26899 MULDOON AND LANGE

ID23398 sa-t-4535-su18-A

ID26423 26423 [Elections 1984]

ID5582 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1980S

Revolution, written and produced by Marcia Russell

Interviews with David Lange by Judith Fyfe recorded 25 June-16 July 1984.
Part of New Zealand Oral History Archive ‘The Gamble’ interviews
OHInt-0324-04, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

National Library of Australia

Episode two: The Nation Is at Risk

Archival audio in this podcast from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga

Sound & Vision:

ID29863 1984 Budget

ID49592 HUI TAUMATA 

ID204166 INSIGHT. 1984, A LOOK BACK TO ‘84

ID27422 MORNING REPORT 1984-07-23 [DEVALUATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR]

ID204166 INSIGHT. 1984, A LOOK BACK TO ‘84

ID27390 MORNING REPORT. 1984-05-23, [GREETING ‘KIA ORA’ USED BY TOLL OPERATOR].

ID47626 HE RERENGA KŌRERO. 1984-10-31.

ID47633 HE RERENGA KŌRERO. 1984-10-31.

ID37718 MORNING REPORT. 1985-07-09. 07:00-08:00.

Revolution, written and produced by Marcia Russell

TVNZ via Getty Images

Episode three: Uranium On Your Breath

Archival audio in this podcast from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga

Sound & Vision:

ID204359 INSIGHT. 1985, THIS WAS 1985. PART 1 AND 2

ID329090 FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTS

ID19057 RAINBOW WARRIOR AFFAIR. COMPILATION TAPES.

ID23041 [RESUMPTION OF ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC].

ID4750 4750_1984_trk 47-A

ID29857 [DAVID LANGE ON FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTING]

ID56741 MORNING REPORT. 1987-06-05.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum

Revolution, written and produced by Marcia Russell

The Oxford Union Society

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka

Radio New Zealand

Episode four: Quantum Leap

Archival audio in this podcast from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga

Sound & Vision:

ID23016 INSIGHT. 1986, DAVID LANGE

ID4750 1986_trk 15-A

ID149495 CHECKPOINT. 1987-10-20.

ID27366 CHECKPOINT. 1987-04-01, [PRIVATISATION OF TREASURY].

ID17540 INSIGHT. 1987, 1987 IN REVIEW

ID56633 MORNING REPORT. 1986-12-22. 07:00-08:00.

ID38298 MORNING REPORT. 1986-03-06. 07:00-08:00.

ID154613 CHECKPOINT. 1987-03-24.

ID154206 CHECKPOINT. 1986-10-31.

ID502-56778 [Elections. 1987 Lange-Bolger] Morning Report. 1987-08-03

ID237224 Checkpoint -1987 Post Election Special Part 2.mp3

ID154457 CHECKPOINT. 1987-08-13.

ID18246 INSIGHT. 1988, YEAR IN SUMMARY.

ID140184 CHECKPOINT. 1987-10-05.

ID 56829 MORNING REPORT. 1987-10-27. 07:00-08:00.

Revolution, written and produced by Marcia Russell

Parliament TV

Episode five: Nine Day Wonder

Archival audio in this podcast from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga

Sound & Vision:

ID97355 MORNING REPORT. 1990-02-07. 

ID204170 INSIGHT. 1985, HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM 

ID140196 CHECKPOINT. 1987-11-24. 

ID140380 CHECKPOINT. 1988-10-04 

ID204206 INSIGHT. 1985, MAKING MĀORI AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN NZ 

ID57355 MORNING REPORT. 1990-02-07. 

ID140333 CHECKPOINT. 1988-07-29. 

Kawe Mahara Queer Archives Aotearoa

Revolution, written and produced by Marcia Russell

Video trailer image courtesy of David Hindley

Episode six: Breakup

Archival audio in this podcast from the RNZ collection at Ngā Taonga

Sound & Vision:

ID157770 CHECKPOINT. 1987-12-24.

ID157766 CHECKPOINT. 1987-12-17.

ID140214 CHECKPOINT. 1988-02-04.

ID140312 CHECKPOINT. 1988-06-29.

ID140318 CHECKPOINT. 1988-07-08.

ID140231 CHECKPOINT. 1988-02-26.

ID140329 CHECKPOINT. [1988-07-25]

ID56923 MORNING REPORT. 1988-03-28.

ID57083 MORNING REPORT. 1988-11-29. 07:00-08:00.

ID140340 CHECKPOINT. 1988-08-09.

ID4706 CHECKPOINT. 1988-11-04, [SACKING OF RICHARD PREBBLE, MINISTER OF STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES].

ID148669 CHECKPOINT. 1986-04-15.

ID140429 CHECKPOINT. 1988-12-14.

ID4261-57172 [David Lange – reaction to Yale speech] Morning Report. 1989-04-26.mp3

ID140502 CHECKPOINT. 1989-05-01.

ID140569 CHECKPOINT. 1989-08-03

ID140571 CHECKPOINT. 1989-08-07

ID22956 DAVID LANGE – VALEDICTORY SPEECH – 21.8.96

Revolution, written and produced by Marcia Russell

National Library of Australia

Radio New Zealand

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