Why some Politicians are Starfish
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This makes perfect sense to me about the New Zealand paua. All animals, including New Zealand humans, have a different reproduction strategy depending on life’s stress… “The starfish seemed to stress the pāua, and they released the spawn,” Walker said. “I’ve been doing it for more than three years now and I’m seeing much bigger […]
Read more..October 2, 2018
BLERTA
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This summer but back in October 1973, Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition (BLERTA) kicked off. The group travelled around NZ in their bus, concluding in January 1973 at The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival. They were musicians but more generally artists, including film makers. I remember some old radio talk-back guy who was there saying […]
Read more..October 1, 2018
Kauri dieback
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Here’s how Elsie Locke, Allen Curnow, et al sprayed their feet for Kauri dieback in the 1930s. Considering how prolific the 1930s human foot traffic was it is a wonder this kauri fungus didn’t menace kauri sooner! Not they nor the gum diggers nor the sawyers can be accused of what we are asked to […]
Read more..October 1, 2018
The Storming of Gate Pa
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Storming of Gate Pa, April 1864 Very enjoyable presentation from daffy English historian, Nikolas Lloyd. It’s refreshing to hear New Zealand history without any politically correct baggage, though he does stop short of calling the natives ‘savages’. But he does call them Maoris, a term that was cut from our local narrative recently after […]
Read more..September 30, 2018
Equality for me, but not for Thee
By Gekko
There are times when even I’m left gobsmacked by the barefaced hypocrisy that emanates from the media peddling their favourite white-knighting narrative It begins as it fully intends to go on: Every mother lives for those small, joyful moments when her child masters something new – a book once too challenging, the telling of a joke […]
Read more..September 28, 2018
The Best Symbols and Costumes for Stealing
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“Lynda Hallinan: Invest in a high-vis vest and a clipboard to get away with stealing”- Stuff (2017) Hallinan is absolutely right about this in our era. Why? New Zealanders have been socialised to over-respect institutions over their own judgement. Our healthy childhood scepticism and personal boundaries have been violated and broken, paving the way for […]
Read more..September 28, 2018
Hugh Hefner
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history: Death of Hugh Hefner (27 Sep 2017) Founded Playboy magazine in 1953. New Zealand probably always will be a cultural colony of Britain and the USA, dependent on these countries for ideas and entertainment, and for political thought. So, Hefner and the sexual revolution abroad reverberated over here. The magazine probably found its […]
Read more..September 28, 2018
The Grounding of the Tuhoe
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
September 27, 2015: The Grounding of the Tuhoe. This was the historic ship that served Kaiapoi- 26 April 1962 – 28 September 2015. There is a new local film in development and the makers sound like they have a healthy anarchist mistrust for the orthodoxy… “When they said it was a wave … we knew, […]
Read more..September 27, 2018
The Kindness of the State
By Gekko
PM’s caring govt The chief representative of the NZ state is continuing her PR charm offensive in the US, baby in hand, along with many equally self-important bigwigs from other states. Amongst all the cringe-worthy posturing in the article was this little gem by Ardern: Through it all, she says, she’s still focusing on making […]
Read more..September 26, 2018
Kiwi Kids are Weetbix Kids
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“Yō asambhava cha” really is Nepali for “It’s impossible”. I looked it up! Great art, great nationalist propaganda, too un-PC to show today. Very enjoyable marketing mythology using patriotism to sell us breakfast cereal in the early 1990s. “Kiwi Kids are Weetbix Kids”. Part of my early Red Pill Anarchism stirred years ago, though, when […]
Read more..September 26, 2018
MV Tuhoe
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history, the grounding of Tuhoe. MV Tuhoe was a 100yo ship, the last of its kind on the Kaiapoi River. Very alarmingly the tourist vessel was accidentally destroyed on 27 September 2015. Gone, the last reminder that for most of its history Kaiapoi has been a busy river port. From the 1850s […]
Read more..September 25, 2018
Rob’s Birthday
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
25 September, 1921: Prime Minister Robert Muldoon’s birthday. He would have been 97yo if alive today. Feisty, Protectionist Populism? New Zealand Tried That “What would you think of a Western democratic leader who was populist, obsessed with the balance of trade, especially effective on television, feisty and combative with the press, and able to take over […]
Read more..September 24, 2018
