The event was carried out to protest New Zealand's ability to record the personal information of citizens which was seen as potentially dangerous by civil libertarians.
[2] Sited on the corner of Bates Street and Somme Parade, "Wairere House" was the name given to the purpose-built building for the Wanganui Computer from the time of its initial construction in 1974.
It allowed law enforcement agencies, including the Police, Transport, Courts, and Corrections , among others, to share information via a nationwide network of computer terminals.
[6] On 18 November 1982, a suicide bomb attack was made against a facility housing the main computer system of the New Zealand Police, Courts, Ministry of Transport and other law enforcement agencies, in Wanganui.
[14] Rochelle Bright wrote a musical play about Neil Roberts in 2015 as part of her residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland.
[15] The graffitied sentence "We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity" has been used by New Zealand artist Ann Shelton in various works, notably as part of her "Doublethink" installation (2013) and exhibition "The City of Lead and Gold" (Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, 2013).