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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 20. August 27 1979

[Introduction]

Despite sending its executive director for New Zealand, Mr Geoff Renner, to try and refute allegations made against it, mainly of political and religious bias, the World Vision organisation remains in NZUSA's black books.

After explaining to the International Commission and a roomful of observers the aims of his organisation, Mr Renner was subjected to almost an hour of very close questioning, some of which he answered, most of which he evaded. The end result was that the commission passed a motion saying that NZUSA would give World Vision no support, financial or otherwise, because "it is not a genuine aid organisation in that it applies religious and political criteria in its aid programme." No votes were recorded against the motion and there was only one abstention, predictably enough from Lincoln.