Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Read this book in my teens as a big Barry Crump fan but gave up waiting for the film I knew Waititi signed on to create. Boy came instead, and directing the next Thor sequel surely meant Wild Pork and Watercress would never be made. But here it is, under a more cinematic title drawing on […]
Read more..August 31, 2018
In Endless Fear
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Must have been in about 1946 that rural West Auckland boys Barry Crump (11) and brother Colin (10) escaped to Avondale by hitching along the metal roads instead of going to school (Taupaki primary, I assume.) From here, a tramcar all the way to Queen Street, central Auckland, the same morning. The kids lived in a […]
Read more..August 31, 2018
Kiwis have no idea when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
1944? Kiwis have no idea when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed- NZ Herald, 2017 It’s a bit like saying Jesus didn’t celebrate Christmas. But how could he? It was a retro-spective invention after his time. So was this. Waitangi Day isn’t an authentic, grass roots, event going back to 1840. It was an invention […]
Read more..August 30, 2018
History: The New Zealand Nuclear Family
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
History: The New Zealand nuclear family itself!? Mother and father form a pair bond to pool their resources to raise children, thus meeting their biological attachment needs. It’s on the way out according to NZ Herald Senior Writer Geraldine Jones today and single mother households are in. Geraldine should know if she’s done it twice! […]
Read more..August 29, 2018
Admiral John Stokes
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Captain Stokes (later promoted) did a great deal for New Zealand in the service of the/our Royal Navy. His Star Trek-like four year mission: To chart our coasts, settle disputes with Maoris and settlers, and to boldly record New Zealand’s natural resources. Between 1848–1851 the crew of the HMS Acheron must have been a great help to […]
Read more..August 27, 2018
Dunedin Railway Station
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This 1906 railway station was an electoral bribe by central government and completely over the top. It has always far exceeded the local population’s needs and always will. “Every time I drive past this building I have this thought; how highly did the architect rate Dunedin to want to build something so grand here. “It’s […]
Read more..August 27, 2018
For the House-Buying Power of 26 Years Ago, The Average Kiwi Wage Would Have to Be $79.25/hr Today
By VJM
“Remember back in 1992, when you used to be able to just… work and buy a house to raise a family in?” Housing is commonly left out of inflation measures, which is why low inflation rates are always reported. Unfortunately for Kiwis, the reality is that housing costs make up a large and ever-growing proportion […]
Read more..August 26, 2018
Stokes Point
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Stokes’ Point District is no more and even the locality re-named to ‘Northcote’ in the 1880s. Once the hub of a busy ferry terminal and the gateway to the North Shore and the rest of New Zealand beyond, Stokes Point isn’t much more now than a place to drop the northern end of the […]
Read more..August 26, 2018
South City Substation; 1971-72
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Interesting bit of technology on the Dunedin rooftops. This inner-city electricity distribution substation on Crawford Street has distinctive roof cones. I’ve never had any of these new-fangled noise-cancelling headphones but they must work on the same principle as these brick cones. By positioning complimentary oscillators (humming transformers) with their noise directed at one another their longitudinal sound […]
Read more..August 25, 2018
Auckland’s ‘First Lady’
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Sarah Mathew: Explorer, Journalist and Auckland’s ‘First Lady’, Tessa Duder (2015) As best I can make from the radio piece, Sarah Mathew is not remarkable at all. So she could carry a survey chain, walk off-road, and vocation as a governess, and travel by sail boat? Even for a women that’s nothing to wonder at, especially […]
Read more..August 24, 2018
Election Campaigns Disguised as Lord Kitchener’s Military Inspection
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
FEBRUARY 18, 1910. Lord Kitchener on tour in New Zealand. Seen here meeting Kiwi veterans of his African war. Old (60), white, a man, and a super celebrity. In his day it was possible to be all of these simultaneously. His star would fall in 1914, along with Churchill’s, for their Gallipoli Invasion which ANZACS […]
Read more..August 24, 2018
Brazilian Public Service Fakes Lost Tribe to Justify Own Existence
By Rick
This little New Zealand news item had deeper roots…. Most read: Drone captures un-contacted Amazon tribe members for first time– TVNZ LAST OF THEIR KIND Amazing drone footage captures first pictures of Amazon jungle tribe who have never had contact with the outside world!– Sun Amazon Tribe Never Seen by Outsiders Is Spotted by Drone– […]
Read more..August 24, 2018
