Clad in white tie and tails, new National Party members of Parliament Robert Muldoon and H. J. (Bert) Walker walk the corridors of power in 1961. As a new MP, Muldoon joined with Duncan MacIntyre and Peter Gordon in criticising senior National ministers, a practice that led to the threesome being described as ‘the Young Turks’.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
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Photograph by Morrie Hill
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