1855: Governor Browne
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 4 September, 1855, the 23-year theme of having governors named after colours continued. Colonel Gore Browne arrived in Auckland in the morning and was sworn in as top Executive of the Crown Colony within 30 minutes of stepping off the ship. Browne was the filling between the slices of Grey bread either […]
Read more..September 4, 2019
Lessons For New Zealand From the German Electoral System
By VJM
When New Zealand adopted a MMP electoral system in 1996, we based that system on the German model. Germany had already had decades of experience with MMP, and it was thought that we could learn from their lessons. As demographer Dan McGlashan will show in this essay, there are further lessons to be learned from […]
Read more..September 3, 2019
1988: Labour Goes Full Victimhood
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Old Left were a Slave Culture who wanted to be ‘looked after’. Plain folk, descended from surfs or Workhouse inmates or clans-folk (The word clan is derived from the Gaelic clann meaning “children.”) They don’t have any trust/faith in anything so abstract as institutions of law or custom. They were the voting plantation of […]
Read more..September 3, 2019
The Three Failed Political Models of Our Time
By VJM
There are three very popular political models in the West at the moment, each one promising utopia through its own path, if only it is followed. The problem is that these three popular models have all failed catastrophically, and furthering any of them only brings more misery into the world. This essay explains these models, […]
Read more..September 2, 2019
1958: Open Hearts
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 3 September 1958, the country’s first open-heart surgery was performed. The team at Greenlane Hospital, Auckland, were not just pioneering health for New Zealand but for the entire human race. There was a generation of New Zealanders who produced such wonders who, in America, are called The Greatest Generation. In Strauss […]
Read more..September 2, 2019
1943: Eleanor Roosevelt Aggravates Unrest
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Between 1942-4 New Zealand’s warriors were fighting WW2 on the other side of the world. While our braves were away from home, tens of thousands of American servicemen flowed through our lands, our hospitality services, and our women. A social invasion, an economic invasion, a cultural invasion. All but a military invasion. The American Invasion! Girls […]
Read more..September 1, 2019
