Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 21. August 28 1978
[Introduction]
Muldoon sure knows how to pick his moments. Just as the term was breaking up the Government announced that not only is Trevor Richards a dissident but so is everyone else who disagrees with the united front of MPs. Even papal infallibility is not invoked all the time: are we really meant to develop an unshakeable faith in Parliamentary infallibility now?
Next came the decision not to allow the NZUSA Southern Africa scholar into New Zealand unless an undertaking was given that s/he would not engage in political activities. Widespread opposition to this decision came pouring in (even the Dominion was moved to editorialise) but the group who would normally have been most vocal in its criticism and active in demonstrating its opposition, students, were on holiday. However a delegation did get to see the Minister of Immigration Frank Gill (I'll come back to an account of that incredible episode).