Politics and Government in New Zealand History
1840 – 1987
From the Treaty to the nuclear-free law
New Zealand's political history is short and strangely eventful: a founding treaty in two languages that still structures national argument; a dozen years of rule by governor; the first country in the world where women voted; and, within living memory, a small ally that told a superpower "no" and wrote the refusal into law.
These pages cover the milestones of that story.