281:. Wilson had met New Zealand prime minister David Lange during her anti-apartheid work, and she invited him to the 1985 Oxford Union debate "This House Believes Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible", during which he gave his famous line about smelling uranium on his opponent's breath. She was the opening speaker and only other New Zealander on the four-person team. The following year, Wilson was elected
250:, and became involved with the anti-apartheid movement. She applied for a visa for South Africa with then-partner Peter Utting, expecting to be declined, but they were granted permission and travelled there in 1981. In 1982 they published a memoir of their experiences in apartheid South Africa as a mixed-race couple.
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