December 22, 2024

1963: Auckland Regional Authority

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Auckland Regional Authority (1963-89) was a great leap forward in centralising political power into the hands of fewer representatives. Communities that wanted to keep their identity and their control over the assets their ancestors had built were right to fear it. When Auckland City turned 100 this float was fielded for the 1971 parade. It’s […]

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November 30, 2021

When Political Correctness Became Prospective

By NZB3

Papanui-Innes Community Board, Christchurch, are so Woke that they’re cancelling the memorialisation of people at the meta level, before they’re even disgraced! This is a new level of anti-human and anti-achievement and anti-recognition. It’s like something out of the Victimhood Culture from 20 years in the future but here we are. “A new development in […]

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November 30, 2021

1979: Misremembering Erebus

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Today in History, 28 November 1979, our Government (National 3.0) killed 257 New Zealanders by flying them into an Antarctic volcano named Mt Erebus. There is no memorial in New Zealand marking the disaster but our Government is hell-bent on ramming one down our throats. At the Parnell Rose Gardens(!?) Why do we need an […]

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November 28, 2021

“Houses Are For Living In”

By NZB3

This is like saying that a skull is for protecting a brain and cannot be used for drinking out of or as a paper weight or for anatomy lessons or decorating catacombs. “Houses are for living in, not for speculation” Objects exist in multiple applications limited only by the imagination of the user. Including as […]

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November 28, 2021

1972: Play School

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Play School first aired in New Zealand on TVNZ from 22 March, 1972, and ran all the way up to 1990. It was a show for Generation X and early Millennials. The format was heavily based on the British show of the same name including the suit of toys props which were: Big Ted, Little […]

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November 27, 2021

No Traffic Lights

By NZB3

Labour 6.0’s attempt to turn our country into a string puppet by imposing what they call a Traffic Light System is doomed already. As it’s not due to start until 3 December 2021 that’s much earlier than expected! The system depends on New Zealanders being suspicious of one another as a default until they can […]

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November 27, 2021

Omicron Omnicrock

By NZB3

Africa has not been fielding a team in the international Health Theater Sports. “But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight Covid-19 that they have in Europe and the US, […]

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November 27, 2021

1989: TV3

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Today in history, 26 November, 1989, TV3 began broadcasting. The State TVNZ monopoly on TV was busted, television had been deregulated. However, it was a far from even playing field for the new and exciting station to go up against the well-funded and entrenched TVNZ. TV3 was required to have a high quota for local […]

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November 26, 2021

1840: Hobson Crowns Himself

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

On 30 January, 1840, Captain William Hobson ‘crowned’ himself Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand. It was an audacious move, a confidence trick that relied on Hobson’s people and the population at the Bay of Islands allowing him to get away with it. They did. Plenty of people can be accused of self-promotion but we usually […]

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November 24, 2021

1936: The Ministry of Marketing

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Incredible the socialist bullets we’ve dodged as a country… and the ones we haven’t. For example, from 26 May, 1936, The Ministry of Marketing. Labour 1.0 created The Marketing Department in 1936 which locked in complete Government control of primary production in our country. Under the Minister, Walter Nash, Labour 1.0 now had the power […]

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November 23, 2021

An Acute Form Of Self-Rejection

By NZB3

This is an an acute form of self-rejection. The attacking of New Zealand English with a battery of NPC adjectives is not an attempt to think. No reasons are offered, no discussion entered into. Simply a muscling in, a colonising, of someone with a different language and culture. Given that, in this case, it’s one’s […]

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November 22, 2021

1885: New Zealand in Tasmania

By Anarchist History of New Zealand

Interested to learn this week that there’s a little bit of New Zealand in Tasmania. In 1867 a young Tasmanian lawyer, William Perkins, came to practice in Greymouth. He did very well, amassing a considerable fortune, then returned home to live in Hobart in 1884. These details were turned up by Mary Traynes and reported […]

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November 22, 2021