Accident Compensation Corporation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Be safe, be seen. 1982 sticker from when ACC was just a young socialist programme of more limited scope The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) was established by the outgoing government of National 2.0 in 1972. As has happened countless times in New Zealand History: National makes a slippery slope and Labour rides it! And, expands and […]
Read more..September 11, 2018
How to Tell if You’re Really A Libertarian
By VJM
The most famous political chart puts everyone into one of four quadrants: authoritarian left and authoritarian right at the top, and libertarian left and libertarian right at the bottom. It’s fashionable to claim to be libertarian, but not everyone who does so really is. This essay looks at how to tell if you’re really a […]
Read more..September 10, 2018
Should farmers pay for water?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Farmer Giles, and others, ploughed the tussock. They drained the swamp. They tamed the floods, they cut the irrigation ways and built the roads. It was never easy. City folk owe their existence as such to these colonial pioneers. The value of what these old timers did passed on to the present. Here Jack Tame, […]
Read more..September 10, 2018
Why the All Blacks Will Do Kapa O Pango Against Argentina
By VJM
The All Blacks will play the Argentinian Pumas this Saturday night in Nelson. This is the first time the All Blacks have played in Sun City, and as a result it’s expected to be the biggest thing ever to happen here. Only one thing is more certain than an All Black win – and that’s […]
Read more..September 7, 2018
East Coast Bays Buy-election, 1980
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in History: East Coast Bays Buy-election, 6 September 1980 (yes, that is the correct Anarchist History spelling). Triggered by Prime Minister Muldoon sending his buddy to a foreign post, hence vacating this seat on Auckland’s North Shore. A shock for the ruling National Party: Defeat of their candidate, Don Brash! To the upstart party, […]
Read more..September 6, 2018
How to Sell to The SJW
By Rick
Why are so many of our institutions such as universities and museums dumbing themselves down and entangling the marketing of their products to Social Justice Warrior causes? My answer is that they are simply marketing accurately to their audience the same way the cover of a tabloid magazine does and with the same disgraceful results. Nike and […]
Read more..September 6, 2018
New Zealand’s First Taxman
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The first Customs Collector in Nz, George Cooper, arrived on Day 1 with Captain William Hobson as a symbiotic twin; The regulator and the taxman. Until 1891 the predatory methodology on the population was the use of Customs Duties/Tariffs. It took this long for the parasites to colonise the Colony because a collection apparatus like […]
Read more..September 5, 2018
“I felt I was suffocating”- Bono
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Poor old (58) Bono from U2 lost his voice on stage this week. A reminder that our culture needs new musicians.. “I had a sense of suffocation. I am a singer, and everything I do comes from air. Stamina, it comes from air. And in this process, I felt I was suffocating.” These are Bono’s […]
Read more..September 4, 2018
Savage Islands (1983)
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
I’ve recently discovered this 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. Wikipedia is right, swashbuckling films are basically doomed with the surprise exception of Pirates of the Caribbean and its increasingly decaying […]
Read more..September 3, 2018
Voting under the influence
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Did you know this about New Zealand? Since 2008 election campaigning and voting can now take place simultaneously! Until very recently we had an institution to separate the sociopathic road show date-rape-drug lolly scramble from the consummation of Election Day. There was to be no voting under the influence! Firm rules were in place. The […]
Read more..September 2, 2018
Rotorua Museum
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Really wanted to visit Rotorua Museum recently but missed out due to this closure. I assume it costs more to staff and maintain than is collected in entry fee so this is a saving. The girl down the driveway minding the store at the thermal pool had so little customers she was doing her ironing […]
Read more..September 1, 2018
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Read this book in my teens as a big Barry Crump fan but gave up waiting for the film I knew Waititi signed on to create. Boy came instead, and directing the next Thor sequel surely meant Wild Pork and Watercress would never be made. But here it is, under a more cinematic title drawing on […]
Read more..August 31, 2018
