Racism In New Zealand In the 1970's

Kia ora,

Today in class we learned about racial inequality in Auckland in the 70's. We watched this video And learned about the dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers Party.(PPP) The PPP were a revolutionary movement formed by a group of young Polynesians in the early 1970's aimed to stop racism in Auckland.

What are the dawn raids? 

In the 70's New Zealand had a major immigration problem and the government at the time decided to crack down. They ordered the police to carry out raids on Pasifika households, looking for overstayers

(immigrants with expired visas). Even though most overstayers were white people from England, South Africa, Canada, etc. The raids often took place early in the morning, hence the name. The dawn raids started in 1974 and ended in 1979.

Do you know anyone that had to go through a dawn raid?