Malcolm Templeton is a former New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 Foreign Service officer, who held a number of senior positions, including that of permanent representative to the United Nations

United Nations

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, and Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs under Secretary Merwyn Norrish

Merwyn Norrish

Merwyn Norrish , is a distinguished New Zealand diplomat who served as New Zealand’s Ambassador to the European Community, Acting High Commissioner to London, Ambassador to the United States, and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.-Early life:Norrish was educated at Ashburton High School and...

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He was a supporter of the Halt All Racist Tours

Halt All Racist Tours

Halt All Racist Tours was a protest group set up in New Zealand in 1969 to protest against rugby union tours to and from South Africa.-Chronology:...

 HART movement which opposed New Zealand's sporting contact with South Africa

South Africa

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 during the apartheid era, and an opponent of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.

The world needed another nuclear power like a hole in the head" - referring to the French nuclear testing at Moruroa

Moruroa

Moruroa , also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean...

 atoll (recorded in interview as played in a BBC4 programme "Blowing Up Paradise: Liberty, Equality and Radioactivity

He is the author of a number of books and publications on New Zealand's foreign relations and defence.

Templeton's twin brothers are veteran press gallery journalist Ian Templeton

Ian Templeton

Ian Campbell Templeton, CNZM, OBE is a veteran New Zealand political reporter who celebrated fifty years of reporting the New Zealand Parliament from the press gallery in 2007. He has written several books on politics...

, and former diplomat and Minister Hugh Templeton

Hugh Templeton

Hugh Campbell Templeton QSO AO is a former New Zealand diplomat, politician and member of parliament for the National Party.-Early life and family:Templeton was born in Southland...

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Publications

• Protecting Antarctica (2002)
• A Wise Adventure: New Zealand and the Antarctic 1923-1960 (2001)
• Human Rights and Sporting Contacts: New Zealand Attitudes to Race Relations in South Africa (1998, revised edition(?) 1999)
• Ties of Blood and Empire: New Zealand's Involvement in Middle East Defence and the Suez Crisis 1947-57 (1994)
• Defence and Security: What New Zealand Needs (1986)
• An eye, an ear and a voice: 50 years in New Zealand’s external relations edited by Malcolm Templeton (1993, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington NZ) ISBN 0477037259