“…Third, a conservative government was in power in New Zealand at the time our data were collected, creating an ideal opportunity to investigate our hypotheses about the impact the motivation to support the status quo has on collective action. Fourth, social psychological research has typically assessed the predictors of collective action using North American (e.g., Becker, Wright, Lubensky, & Zhou, ; Simon et al., ) and European (e.g., Becker & Wright, ; Stürmer & Simon, ) samples, with comparatively little research conducted in Australasia (for exceptions, see Osborne & Sibley, ; Osborne et al., , ; Thomas, Mavor, & McGarty, ). Therefore, investigating the impact of system justification on support for system‐challenging and system‐supporting collective action in an understudied context characterized by longstanding injustice advances the literature in several useful ways.…”