2015: Agassiz Glacier Cancelled?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This month in history, in June 2015, one of our glaciers was “un-named.” Sasha Huber travels the world picking up grants and awards and living as an artist-in-residence. Some people just have the knack or know how to pull strings…but her other main occupation is to seek and destroy the legacy of a famous scientist […]
Read more..June 14, 2021
“Beneficiary Booster Budget Bold”
By NZB3
BP petrol stations are required to refuse beneficiaries their free money for use in buying alcohol, cigarettes, gambling and gift cards. Since December last year, they’ve given up trying! The masses have become so angry and abusive that BP didn’t feel safe saying “no” so has buckled with the government’s blessing. This news has just […]
Read more..June 13, 2021
700: Hui Te Rangiora
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Polynesian myth tells us that the demigod Maui created New Zealand (and other islands) as a product of his godly fishing expeditions. Kupe the Navigator is credited with discovering our islands for the Polynesians and leading them to migrate. According to Porirua Museum Reuben Friend the Museum of New Zealand has the authentic and restored […]
Read more..June 13, 2021
1814: Colonisation is just “plastic, chewing gum and washing machines”
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week Willie Jackson hit back at fellow MP Paul Goldsmith for pointing out that colonisation was a net benefit to the Maoris. Jackson spoke of “inclusion” and “respect” then went on to reduce the body of Western culture to a “sale at Briscoes.” The benefits of colonisation, he supposes, can be summed up as […]
Read more..June 12, 2021
1830s: Measley Beach
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
As late as 1850 2 or 9 waka and the bones of their Maori crew were still evident at Measley Beach and Wangaloa Creek on the South Otago coast. It may have been a fishing party or a war party but it ended here. More legend than history but the name ‘Measley’ is now attached […]
Read more..June 11, 2021
1953: Kawerau
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Geothermal power and a sea of exotic forest were just raw ingredients but it was the great industrialist Sir James Fletcher who figured out how to cook up a town out of them, Kawerau. Milling timber is this towns reason for being and, at one time the biggest pulp and paper mill in the Southern […]
Read more..June 10, 2021
1988: Nuclear Free Zone
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand History, 8 June, 1988, the Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 was made law. By doing so, our Government (Labour 4.0) made a huge unilateral security decision to cut this country out of the ANZUS Treaty (1951.) Who was defending New Zealand now? The best part of the […]
Read more..June 9, 2021
2018: “Get Woke, Or Shuffle Off”
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 14 June, 2018, the hospital drama Shortland Street televised a racial agenda about replacing “puffed up privileged pakeha men.” The words were on behalf of the CEO of the hospital at the climax of the episode. “You know what I see in this hospital? The last gasp of a dying age. Puffed up, privileged […]
Read more..June 8, 2021
Communication Hijack
By NZB3
New Zealanders no longer recognise communication as the transmission of information. Instead, the word has come to refer to baffling and dazzling and diverting and deflecting. That’s on us, it’s epistemological. Now with the (expropriated) term well in hand we award praise to the Prime Minister for being a master “communicator.” We lower our boundaries […]
Read more..June 8, 2021
1960: Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Two Ministers of Labour from the same political party had radically opposed views on how to help the disabled. From Labour 2.0, Fred Hackett. From Labour 5.0, Ruth Dyson. Hackett sponsored the Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act (1960): An Act to make better provision for the employment of disabled persons.1 Dyson sponsored the repeal of […]
Read more..June 7, 2021
Maori Currency Inflation
By NZB3
Maori are not to blame for what is done in the name of their culture but they are taking the flack. For example, Stuff: Tauranga man arrested after video posted making threats to Māori. For another, Eagle Brewer’s outburst. People are getting angry about it. And because that anger tends to be suppressed as politically […]
Read more..June 6, 2021
New Ahaura Bridge
By NZB3
Are West Coasters afraid of Maoris? Worse, are they afraid of taniwha? Since I first migrated across the clapped out old wooden single-lane Ahaura Bridge I found Coasters to be refreshingly non-Politically Correct. Especially so when it comes to Environmentalists and the Department of Conservation. Nobody minds being vigorously against 1080 poison pellets or Woke […]
Read more..June 5, 2021
