“The whole world's watching”: New Zealand, international opinion, and the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour LSE Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/100966/ Version: Accepted Version Article: McDougall, Hamish (2018) “The whole world's watching”: New Zealand, international opinion, and the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour. Journal of Sport History, 45 (2). pp. 202-223. ISSN 0094-1700 https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.45.2.0202 Reuse Items deposited in LSE Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the LSE Research Online record for the item.
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[email protected] “The whole world’s watching”: New Zealand, International Opinion, and the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour Hamish McDougall, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science† Abstract The 1981 South Africa rugby tour of New Zealand brought widespread protest and global attention. It should be understood in an international context. Both anti-tour protestors and the New Zealand government viewed international perceptions of New Zealand as important and interacted with institutions and individuals around the world to influence them. For the New Zealand government, in addition to domestic considerations, relations with Britain were important for trade, geopolitical, and cultural reasons.