1840: The Ngati Whatua RFP
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Ngati Whatua had once been a successful Maori tribal brand with head office in today’s Auckland City. This territory, the Tamaki isthmus, had become such a competitive market that nobody in New Zealand could meet the operational fixed costs. Bracken and manuka took over where once there had been terraces and cultivations and so it […]
Read more..March 12, 2025
Wildlife Carbon Offset
By NZB3
So DOC, under Labour 6.0, were under the impression they could kill 46 species of wildlife, including some rare and protected species, as long as they did something nice to make up for it. Talk about carbon-offset mentality! “The Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) challenged the decision to grant the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi […]
Read more..March 10, 2025
1550: The Coming of the Hawaikians
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Austronesian Expansion out of Taiwan was firmly prehistoric for most of the past many hundreds of years. This migration has mostly moved humans east across the Pacific to populate the many islands along the way. It was not until about 1200 AD that one of the many forks decided they had made a wrong […]
Read more..March 7, 2025
1995: Mayor Georgina Beyer
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 1 November, 1995, Georgina Beyer became the mayor of the Wairarapa town of Carterton. This political success lasted about 12 years after which Beyer, deprived of other people’s money, toppled into poverty followed by sickness and death (died today, 6 March, 2023.) The life of this Boomer makes for a very interesting and instructive […]
Read more..March 6, 2025
1844: The Quick and the Dead
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history, on 26 February, 1844, Hugh Ross shot William Brewer dead in a Wellington street. The two lawyers had decided to settle their dispute over a case in the Wellington County Court outside of the law instead. This Hobson Honour Culture time period was characterised by people who took life personally and […]
Read more..March 1, 2025
