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A 1981 All Black, Doug Rollerson, and flour-bomb pilot Marx Jones provide opposing views on the tour in this 2006 interview. Both are adamant that they were right in the stance they took at the time.
TVNZ Extract from 1981 tour special on Close up, 4 July 2006
'Film: opposing views - 1981 Springbok tour', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/1981-springbok-tour-opposing-views, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 9-Feb-2015
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