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David Russell Lange ONZ CH PC ( / ˈlɒŋi / LONG-ee; 4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. Lange was born and brought up in Ōtāhuhu, the son of a physician.
The 'real' story of accidental hero David Lange and how New Zealand became nuclear-free. By. David Fisher. 19 Jan, 2017 05:37 AM7 mins to read. In March 1985 David Lange took part in a...
David Lange. Seven years and one stomach-stapling operation after entering Parliament in 1977, David Lange became PM a week before his 42nd birthday. The baby-boomers had ousted Robert Muldoon’s RSA generation and Lange’s youthful Cabinet ‘heaved and bubbled like a Rotorua mud pool with new ideas, some equally volcanic.’.
David Lange was a New Zealand lawyer and politician, who was the prime minister of New Zealand (1984–89). Strongly influenced by his father, a physician noted for his socialist views, Lange grew up in a working-class suburb of Auckland.
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Feb 28, 2015 · Against all diplomatic advice, David Lange, the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand, accepted an invitation to argue the affirmative in a debate at the Oxford Union that “Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible.”
Aug 13, 2005 · David Lange was New Zealand’s youngest prime minister of the 20th century. Renowned for his sharp wit and oratory, he led the fourth Labour government from 1984 until 1989. This was a turbulent era, characterised by New Zealand’s strong anti-nuclear position, the implementation of ‘Rogernomics’, and other radical changes.
Aug 13, 2005 · David Lange (1942-2005) was a New Zealand lawyer and politician who banned nuclear-armed and powered vessels from his country and promoted a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the South Pacific. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 2003 for his steadfast work for a world free of nuclear weapons and his advocacy for peace and justice.
