NATIONAL PARTY 1975. SUPERANNUATION

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Year
1975
Reference
C1555
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1975
Reference
C1555
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Promotional
Duration
0:02:40
Production company
Pacific Films
Credits
Animation: Hanna-Barbera
Director: Tony Williams
Writer: Michael Wall

A National Party political broadcast produced for the 1975 General Election. This is arguably the most notorious election campaign ad in New Zealand’s political history.

Animated by the US company Hanna-Barbera it criticises the Labour Government’s compulsory superannuation scheme and includes a man dodging a noose. It suggests that the Labour Party’s policies are verging on communism; to illustrate this point it shows New Zealand being painted red and features dancing cossacks.

‘On April Fools Day the Labour Government started a compulsory superannuation scheme and called it a bold piece of social legislation’

‘Soon they could buy all the farms, indeed, one day the Government could end up owning literally everything, And you know what that’s called don’t you?’

Robert Muldoon, the leader of the National Party, then explains National’s plan to abolish the compulsory superannuation scheme and introduce national superannuation.