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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 22. 1973

Groping Towards Professionalism

Groping Towards Professionalism

At the time of the general election the Wellington executive of the Party — all of the candidates from the Wellington area and some of Brunt's friends — was characterised by the sort of informality which adherents wished to make the political norm, but the election whetted appetites for politics over social action and some felt the Party would have to organise itself more efficiently if it were ever to take on either National or Labour in a serious way. The hope was that the informality which has characterised previous deliberations — much valued by those activists central to the Party's formation — could be retained but moulded into a structure that could make maximum use of the resources and information available — much valued by the general membership which had been latterly drawn to the Party as an electoral force. This groping towards political professionalism gave rise to a final and perhaps decisive antagonism between what subsequently became Values ideology and Values reality.