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In 1980, there was an attempt to unseat Robert Muldoon, National Party Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time. It was called the Colonel's Coup, but contrary to what you might think, it was not a military coup but an attempt to remove him as leader of the National Party and replace him with Deputy PM Brian Talboys. It got a majority of votes in caucus initially(according to counts by people at the time, no vote was held to confirm whether this was truthful) but no vote was held as Muldoon fought back after returning from overseas and Talboys dithered over whether to challenge What if Talboys had not dithered and managed to topple Muldoon? How would Prime Minister Talboys go? What would he do about the Springbok Tour-given he was vigorously opposed to it, but may not go so far as force its cancellation? Could National win the 1981 election under Talboys or not? How would the 1980s go differently for New Zealand? What if?
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