N.Z. ‘exporter of peace’
PA Hamilton New Zealand had become an exporter of the world’s most precious commodity — peace — an anti-nuclear campaigner and rock star, Peter Garrett, told a packed hall in Hamilton on Monday evening. Addressing an audience of more than 800 people, who crammed the aisles and spilled out the doors, Garrett said New Zealanders were creating history with
their anti-nuclear stance. “Keep it up, New Zealand," was his message. Garrett, vocalist with the rock group, Midnight Oil, is in New Zealand on a weeklong tour to spread his antinuclear message with help from the New Zealand entertainers, the Topp Twins. Garrett stood for a seat in the Australian senate last election as a candidate for the Nuclear Disarmament Party.
He told the meeting that New Zealand had taken a lead in the world and he believed the world was going to respond to it. “Mr Lange is out there on the world stage saying something no-one else has had the courage to say.” He said Australia’s Nuclear Disarmament Party supported New Zealand’s stand and was itself striving to make Australia nuclear-free.
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