50 Years of New Zealand Television: 2 - The Whole World's Watching

I can remember, as an editor, getting footage and looking through it and seeing dead bodies and thinking this was extraordinary...We suddenly lost our innocence and our naivety about what was occurring in the world.

– Sean Duffy on editing footage from the Vietnam War

For me, it is normal. That's how I am. I would dearly love a heterosexual to explain to me how they became heterosexual. One's always struck with this difficulty.

– Dr Ian Scott, answering a prickly question about homosexuality during a televised debate

And dominating today's news, the eviction of the protestors from Auckland's Bastion Point. It was carried out by police with military-like precision. Today's operation was one of the biggest the New Zealand police have undertaken in recent years.

– Dougal Stevenson reading a news bulletin in May 1978 about events at Bastion Point