Prime Minister Bill Rowling delivers an outline of the Labour government’s economic policy in 1975 with ministers Colin Moyle (centre) and Michael Connelly (right) seated beside him. Photo: Te Ara / Public Domain
We have heard a lot about alleged political hit jobs over the past year or so: Winston Peters and the superannuation overpayment last year and Chris Bishop on Snapchat last week.
Yet political hit jobs are as old as politics and permeate NZ's history.
Our regular historian Grant Morris takes a look back on political hit jobs before 1980.
