Robert Muldoon

Emile Donovan speaks to a TVNZ cameraman who was there on June 14 1984 when the prime minister drunkenly held a press conference to call a snap election. Audio

Political party presidents tend to stay out of the spotlight - but just how influential is their role? Audio

Pioneering New Zealand feminist, activist and former Green MP Sue Kedgley first came to public attention in the 1970s as an early, outspoken women's liberationist for femism. Her new book, Fifty Years… Audio

Forty years on from the Erebus Disaster which claimed 257 lives, a former Attorney General says he has one real regret from that period.

In November 1979 an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed… Audio

It’s the final episode of the Aotearoa History Show! Rogernomics, Ruthanasia and the referendum on MMP saw the total restructuring of our economy and voting system. Plus a snapshot of the changing… Audio

The 60s, 70s and 80s were rowdy decades. Kiwis were getting out in the streets and raising their voices about the rights of Māori, women and LGBT people, nuclear energy, the environment. Plus the most… Audio

June 1984 and a drunken decision late one night leads to a snap election. Sir Robert Muldoon's ruling National Government is thrown out of office and David Lange's reforming Labour Party voted in. But… Audio

Before President Trump banned journalists from press conferences, former Prime Minister Robert Muldoon did the same. Mr Muldoon famously barred New Zealand journalist and cartoonist Tom Scott. Audio