1983: Savage Islands
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
I’ve recently discovered this NZ made film, where Tommy Lee Jones shoots Prince Tui Teka stone dead. Savage Islands (1983) was an attempted rip-off of Indiana Jones but in the form of some kinda buddy movie. Fail Wikipedia is right, swashbuckling films are basically doomed with the surprise exception of Pirates of the Caribbean and […]
Read more..November 26, 2018
1941: The General Election That Never Was
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Former Prime Minister Hon Walter Nash’s Oak Manrobe has appeared on Trade Me. Thanks to History Always Repeats for noticing. Possibly part of the Labour 1.0 Prime Ministerial penthouse on parliament’s rooftop? Seldom mentioned, it seems to have been a sort of palatial pad for a ‘shaken not stirred’ political elites. Nash, at the […]
Read more..November 25, 2018
1975: General Election; ‘The Cities’
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Oh what a wonderful clip of the 1975 election campaign! It has been shared by Newshub but released on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision archives. The commenters around the traps seem to think the observations in this campaign advert are quite prescient. They were not. In this era New Zealand was already living through the […]
Read more..November 24, 2018
Brian Talboys
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Brian Talboys, 1921 to 2012. He just popped up in the National Party 1975 election campaign advert I mentioned in my last post. This was during his political heyday. Earlier Version of Bill English The simplest description to today’s reader is that Brian Talboys was the Bill English of his day. Brian and Bill […]
Read more..November 24, 2018
One Year of Rule by the Left Wing of the Capitalist Party: A Retrospective
By VJM
The Labour faction of the Capitalist Party came to power at the end of 2017, taking over from the National faction of the Capitalist Party after that year’s general election. Even though everyone knew that the Capitalist Party would still be in charge, many believed that the ascendancy of the Labour faction would mean a […]
Read more..November 23, 2018
Why Slave Morality is the Future of the World
By VJM
Master and slave morality is not much more than the alpha/beta positioning of primates on a dominance hierarchy. Master morality comes naturally to primates at the top of a dominance hierarchy, and slave morality comes naturally to those at the bottom. This essay makes an argument for the inevitability of a horrific future world, in […]
Read more..November 22, 2018
1992: Benito and Adolf in a New Zealand film!
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Scene from Lovelock (1992) which is an excellent short film. Actual clip from 1936 shows it’s close enough to to satisfy anyone.. Watch the film here.. More on Jack Lovelock here, which I will soon repost to the website. Post syndicated from http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/benito-and-adolf-in-a-new-zealand-film/.
Read more..November 22, 2018
2007: Derailing Fred
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Long Bay on Auckland’s North Shore has long been a popular park and beach for young families. It had a train, ‘Fred’, for 30 years until Auckland Regional Council shut it down in 2007. “I hate the PC scum that go around wreaking all the fantastic things that make NZ so good. I remember this […]
Read more..November 21, 2018
2018: Derailing Little Toot
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Driving down Whangaparoa road along Auckland’s peninsula of the same name I’ve often noticed a little railway sign. Now it’s too late to investigate further as yet another private model railway has been forced to close by The State: Little Toot. “…the company cannot afford to do the work suggested, which included a walking platform […]
Read more..November 21, 2018
1960s: “Sexist Advertisements”
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
These 1960s advertising attitudes are sexist, claim Newshub in their video… “A promotion for New Zealand products from 1968 shows us a mannequin that is said to be more convenient than a real life woman.” “Women of course don’t take fishing seriously, but they seem to enjoy it just the same. More feminine than angling […]
Read more..November 20, 2018
Hawkesby’s Equality
By Gekko
Fresh from the annals of ‘In-Group Preference’, this morning’s opinion piece by NZ talk-show host Kate Hawkesby shows a lack of self-awareness that is somewhat surprising for a broadcaster of her arguable repute. Her opinion article is a response to a petition raised against a female-only Uber-style taxi service claiming that the service is discriminatory […]
Read more..November 20, 2018
Bob McCoskrie Is An Absolute Fuckwit
By VJM
Giving Bob McCoskrie a national platform to rant about “dope” and “Big Marijuana” is like giving your granddad a national platform to rant about Islanders after he’s had a few sherries on Boxing Day. Stuff did it anyway. This column will have a look at McCoskrie’s screed of fuckwittery, with the intent of responding to […]
Read more..November 20, 2018
