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RNZ - COMMERCIAL NEWS NETWORK, WELLINGTON
Programme title: "Waking Up To Reform"
Entry is a compilation of news reports on the topic of the electoral reform
referendum, September 1992
Producer: Allen Walley
Audio Sub-Editor: Paul McIntyre
Presenter: Paul Henry
(DOCUMENTS)
RNZ News bulletins [recorded off-air] in the days after the first 1992 electoral reform referendum. The newsreader is Paul Henry.
Reports by Anna Thomas, Gyles Beckford, Rory Newsom
Comments by Prime Minister Jim Bolger, Electoral Reform Commission spokesman Colin Clark, Labour Party leader Mike Moore, New Labour leader Jim Anderton - who criticises the way the referendum was worded and run. Māori Congress convenor Api Mahuika on the future of the Māori seats; former PM David Lange, former National Party President Sir Graham Latimer; Electoral Reform committee chairman John Robertson comments on low voter turnout.