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How partisan papers pushed to break up NZ

09:09 am on 10 July 2016

How partisan papers pushed to break up NZ

Restive regions demanding independence? Angry clashes over breaking away? The media taking sides and telling people and politicians which side to back? The UK's Brexit in 2016 - and here 150 years ago. Mediawatch talks to Andre Brett, a political historian who has scanned the newspapers from the years when provincial governments held sway.