This issue culminated in the decision of David Lange´s government to adopt a totally non-nuclear policy.
Since the British accession to the EEC, New Zealand has strengthened its trade links with Australia and ist Asian neighbours, after attempts to renegotiate protocol 18 of Britain´s Treaty Accession on dairy and sheep-meat products had largely failed. As a multiracial society, New Zealand has during the later 20th century, achieved increasingly successful integration between two races, Maori and European.

The political systm of New Zealand
In 1907 the title of dominion was adopted, with a bicameral Parliament: a House of Representatives and a Legislative Council, the latter being abolished in 1950. The Statute of Westminster was not to be fully adopted until 1947, and in 1949 the British Parliament renounced its control over the New Zealand Constitution.
Today, is New Zealand an independent parliamentary democracy within the British Commonwealth. The official Head of State is the British Queen, represented by a governor-general. English is a official and dominant spoken language, the Maoris speak a Malayo-Polynesian language. A busy seaport Wellington is a capital of New Zealand within over 1,340,000 inhabitants.