1967: Decimalisation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
When New Zealand changes to ‘Aotearoa’ or pounds become dollars we are not just rearranging the deck chairs of the nation. It’s a change in our very social superstructure. That’s what happened today in history, 10 July, 1967. We left behind what McLauchlan called a “barren brown beer and baked beans world”. We moved into […]
Read more..July 10, 2022
Hairy Maclary, Wellington Zoo, and Friends
By NZB3
The famous Harvard criminologist sociologist Robert K. Merton provided a map almost 100 years ago that shows society in normal and anormic states. His paper is still famous and an excellent way to bring clarity to what’s constantly going on in New Zealand. How else to explain what has happened in the last few days […]
Read more..July 6, 2022
1912: The Death of the Liberal Party
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 6 July, 1912, the Liberal Party finally crashed and burned after a very protracted demise. After ruling New Zealand for 22 years their goose was finally cooked. The way was open for a new leader and a new party to be in political control of the country; William Massey and Reform. Ref. […]
Read more..July 6, 2022
1966: Rotorua Meter Maid
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Local Government realised in the 1950s that it could exploit owners of parked cars for revenue. From this came the first species of Meter Maid. A curious phenomena. They were a combination of the government flirting with you and the government stealing money from you for not having your vehicle in motion. In the holiday […]
Read more..July 4, 2022
2020s: Shrinkflation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
If AHNZ wrote about economics there’d be more than monetary inflation. But how about food inflation? Is our bread or even our biscuits anything near as high quality as our great grandparents? Is our flour, our meat, our water, our chocolate, our milk anything like what a Colonial would have had? Full of palm oil, […]
Read more..July 3, 2022
1862: First Telegraph
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 1 July, 1862, Canterbury politicians congratulated themselves on New Zealand’s first telegraph line. They held a special public dinner, a ball, and then another dinner. As this postage stamp (image, left) commemorates, the line ran over the Port Hills from Christchurch to Lyttelton. It wasn’t long before Central Government started re-writing history […]
Read more..July 1, 2022
