1978: Looking Back on 1978

August 12, 2019

By AHNZ

I bet Oamaru don’t really have a time portal back to 1978. Fun little report from Julian Lee in the video clip below. Couple of other interesting things about 1978…

• Ravensdown was in the news for rising to become fertiliser company supreme; This week (2018) they’re in the news for having their factory burn down in Christchurch.
• The meat industry is in crisis, leading to closures and protests in this year.
• Which was also a drought year.
• Bastion Point occupation.
• Social Credit rose to political office as wonky economic times lead to wonky economic thinkers.
• Split Enz had found their new sound were shortly to release their new album, Frenzy
• National 3.0 re-elected to Government to preside over these Slave Culture years
• The era of New Zealand Punk was underway to bust us out of SC
• Abbotsford’s landslide had already begun
• The kids were wearing orange and brown

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