From South African rugby and apartheid, to Trade Unions, the Treaty of Waitangi, beauty pageants and more. The people of Christchurch have shown up in their droves to protest on issues they're passionate about.
Police in riot gear draw their batons against protesters who invaded the Lancaster Park pitch to demonstrate during the first test of the Springbok rugby tour on August 15, 1981. The All Blacks won 14–9.
Anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting the arrival of the South African Rugby League team at Christchurch Airport in 1963.
Protesters on Kilmore St in 1978 near the Christchurch Town Hall following a march from Cathedral Square with banners and placards protesting against Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and unemployment.
Protest against the 1977 amendment to the Contraception-Sterilisation and Abortion Bill in Cathedral Square.
The Wizard with a Waitangi Day protester in 1989.
A group of protesters outside Christchurch Town Hall protesting against the 1981 Miss Universe New Zealand contest.
Waitangi Day protesters at Banks Peninsula in 1988.
Council of Trade Unions president, Ken Douglas, leads a march of Canterbury union delegates along Colombo St in 1991 to the offices of the Canterbury Employers' Association.
