It was the photo that made veteran activist Sue Bradford world-famous - and not just in New Zealand.
This picture of her being dragged away by police after a Queen St sitdown protest against the 1995 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was published in the NZ Herald of November 8 that year.
Photographer Brett Phibbs, who still works for the newspaper, says Reuters picked up the photo and it ran in newspapers everywhere, given the international interest in the Commonwealth summit.
Bradford was a busy activist back in 1995 - so busy, in fact, that she initially thought the photo was taken during a protest during a meeting of the Asian Development Bank some months earlier.
"How embarrassing, I got the wrong demo," she says. "It was a very busy year."
She does, however, clearly recall how the police lifted her off the ground - they picked up the protester by her ears.
"Some people who have seen that photo say I was putting on the face for political effect, but it was extremely painful," says Bradford. "I was definitely not acting at the time."
Phibbs says the ear-lifting move was a common police tactic, and that he had anticipated a clash and positioned himself next to Bradford in anticipation of an action shot.
"At the time it was their stock move, they put their hand behind their ears and lifted them off the ground nullifying their resistance - and they went for the leaders first."
The relationship between Bradford and the police has since improved dramatically. "Since I've become an MP it's been amazing the number of times police have come to to me, introduced themselves, and said they've arrested me."
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