1971: Turangi Information Centre Museum
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand has many Ghost Towns but in Turangi it has a Ghost Museum. Now derelict, the 1970s buildings are still there as evidence and so are a couple of monuments to what used to be an exciting history destination with the very latest form of exhibit presentation. Everyone who takes the highway east of […]
Read more..November 29, 2022
1967: Opepe Canoe Rescue
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In Taupo History news this week we see that Taupo Museum is congratulating itself for re-mounting the Opepe Canoe for the third time. Goodness knows how much it cost the taxpayer. Whereas, the first time the ‘waka’ was conserved and mounted it was all done by the community for free. The Opepe Canoe appears to […]
Read more..November 27, 2022
1503: Frenchman’s Gully Rock Art
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There are hundreds of pre-Maori rock art sites in South Canterbury, including some very special ones at Frenchman’s Gully at Pareora Gorge near Timaru. Here we see some of the few (only) pictures of the long extinct moa. No Maori ever saw a moa. The giant bird was the primary resource of an earlier culture […]
Read more..November 21, 2022
Wakandan Diplomacy
By NZB3
I don’t do spoiler warnings; That was your spoiler warning for Wakanda Forever (2022) which I’ve just come from viewing. There’s plenty of disappointment to go around about this film but I have not seen anyone else take my angle which is the terrible culture of diplomacy on show in this latest Marvel sequel film. […]
Read more..November 18, 2022
1898: Getting Rid of Robert and Anna Stout
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 19 November, 1909, a letter was published in the London Times by Anna Stout (image left, holding Union Jack.) Stout, along with husband Robert, and sometime Prime Minister and Chief Justice, were left-wing politicians. She was active alongside Kate Sheppard and other wealthy social justice warriors in the Women’s Christian […]
Read more..November 18, 2022
1909: Anna Stout’s Reasons
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Anna Stout got her voice back during a holiday to England after 11 years serving as wife to the Chief Justice of New Zealand. Prior to the New Zealand left-wing power couple of Anna and Robert being promoted to this post they had advocated for all sorts of Progressive, Feminist, anti-vice, Social Justice causes all […]
Read more..November 14, 2022
Dissociative Identity Disorder of Woke Capital
By NZB3
This advert from Westfield is playing on my podcast feeds having figured out my location. They’re trying to get me revved up for Christmas without saying what that means. Everything to everyone. “Please don’t be offended!” What’s Christmas anyway? “We mean whatever you mean.” Umm….is it decorating trees with lobsters? Jesus? Santa? Maori Santa? Trans […]
Read more..November 13, 2022
Public Works
By NZB3
Here’s a typical picture of one guy working on a civil construction job with 10 others watching on. We see it the world over, including here in New Zealand. Contracts like these allow governments to launder money and payola their friends and fund re-election. They take longer and cost more than could possibly make sense. […]
Read more..November 11, 2022
1917: The Runanga Payroll Robbery
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Whenever an historical narrative is cemented into the earth with a monument it makes a statement that brands as an instant deviant anyone who challenges it. After a dozen or so consultations of what really happened on 9 November, 1917, to the Rununga miners’ payroll all I can find are agreement with the mainstream handed-down […]
Read more..November 9, 2022
1875: Abolition of Provinces
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand’s Provincial System was broken up by Central Government using the Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875. Since then the Unitary State has grown more and more influential. The Governor General was reduced to a figurehead, the Legislative Council “temporarily” abolished entirely. The Prime Minister and their Ministry have become supreme and I don’t think […]
Read more..November 7, 2022
1929: Bessie Lee and the Brewery
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 5 November, 1929, with heads held high, shining eyes, and an air of strong resolution and purpose, over 80 women marched from the Baptist Church at Otahuhu, Auckland, to invoke Divine intervention against the opening of the new Waitemata brewery. They were led, as per usual, by a bourgeoisie woman of independent […]
Read more..November 5, 2022
1975: The Parihaka Industry
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“Parihaka would become a thriving industry,” observes Radio New Zealand in their 2018 interview The Shame of Parihaka is so Great it can Never End. Which kind of industry do they mean? It’s not agriculture, not forestry, not energy, not steel. The thriving Parihaka industry is shame and business is good. Maoris who live at, […]
Read more..November 1, 2022
