November 21, 2024

1994: Ivomec Music

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Ivomec is a long-standing product in New Zealand for treating “parasitic infestations with a well-established, broad-spectrum action.” And maybe more. Back in 1994 they gave us this ad campaign based on an earlier spoof of a musical fence in Country Calendar. This video is mentioned on NZ on Screen and Te Ara but they don’t […]

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September 3, 2021

1918: Uncle Scrim’s Pandemic

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

‘Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. For a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it.’ We live in strange days indeed! The New Zealanders who faced the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 no such propaganda was required. They were quite […]

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September 2, 2021