Admiral John Stokes
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Captain Stokes (later promoted) did a great deal for New Zealand in the service of the/our Royal Navy. His Star Trek-like four year mission: To chart our coasts, settle disputes with Maoris and settlers, and to boldly record New Zealand’s natural resources. Between 1848–1851 the crew of the HMS Acheron must have been a great help to […]
Read more..August 27, 2018
Dunedin Railway Station
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This 1906 railway station was an electoral bribe by central government and completely over the top. It has always far exceeded the local population’s needs and always will. “Every time I drive past this building I have this thought; how highly did the architect rate Dunedin to want to build something so grand here. “It’s […]
Read more..August 27, 2018
For the House-Buying Power of 26 Years Ago, The Average Kiwi Wage Would Have to Be $79.25/hr Today
By VJM
“Remember back in 1992, when you used to be able to just… work and buy a house to raise a family in?” Housing is commonly left out of inflation measures, which is why low inflation rates are always reported. Unfortunately for Kiwis, the reality is that housing costs make up a large and ever-growing proportion […]
Read more..August 26, 2018
Stokes Point
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Stokes’ Point District is no more and even the locality re-named to ‘Northcote’ in the 1880s. Once the hub of a busy ferry terminal and the gateway to the North Shore and the rest of New Zealand beyond, Stokes Point isn’t much more now than a place to drop the northern end of the […]
Read more..August 26, 2018
South City Substation; 1971-72
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Interesting bit of technology on the Dunedin rooftops. This inner-city electricity distribution substation on Crawford Street has distinctive roof cones. I’ve never had any of these new-fangled noise-cancelling headphones but they must work on the same principle as these brick cones. By positioning complimentary oscillators (humming transformers) with their noise directed at one another their longitudinal sound […]
Read more..August 25, 2018
Auckland’s ‘First Lady’
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Sarah Mathew: Explorer, Journalist and Auckland’s ‘First Lady’, Tessa Duder (2015) As best I can make from the radio piece, Sarah Mathew is not remarkable at all. So she could carry a survey chain, walk off-road, and vocation as a governess, and travel by sail boat? Even for a women that’s nothing to wonder at, especially […]
Read more..August 24, 2018
Election Campaigns Disguised as Lord Kitchener’s Military Inspection
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
FEBRUARY 18, 1910. Lord Kitchener on tour in New Zealand. Seen here meeting Kiwi veterans of his African war. Old (60), white, a man, and a super celebrity. In his day it was possible to be all of these simultaneously. His star would fall in 1914, along with Churchill’s, for their Gallipoli Invasion which ANZACS […]
Read more..August 24, 2018
Brazilian Public Service Fakes Lost Tribe to Justify Own Existence
By Rick
This little New Zealand news item had deeper roots…. Most read: Drone captures un-contacted Amazon tribe members for first time– TVNZ LAST OF THEIR KIND Amazing drone footage captures first pictures of Amazon jungle tribe who have never had contact with the outside world!– Sun Amazon Tribe Never Seen by Outsiders Is Spotted by Drone– […]
Read more..August 24, 2018
The Four Ways to Become Enslaved
By VJM
Chains can be physical, mental, or spiritual There are many different ways that a person can become enslaved to the will of another or to a group of others. Although people usually associate the term ‘slavery’ with the chattel slavery of the American South, there are as many different kinds of slavery in the human […]
Read more..August 23, 2018
South Island Independence
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Vince, at VJM, recently made a case for our South Island succeeding from The State to form its own organisation. The suggestion has come up due to some fringe pressure from the likes of Solomon Tor-Kilsen of Timaru and Pat McCarrigan of Dunedin. TVNZ reporter Julian Lee made a mocking prime time news item lampooning the […]
Read more..August 23, 2018
The Case For South Island Independence
By VJM
There has been some talk recently about a South Island independence movement, and the initial reaction of most has been to assume it is a joke. If one thinks about it rationally, however, it actually makes more sense for the South Island to become independent than for it to remain part of New Zealand. This […]
Read more..August 23, 2018
Nationalism
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Syndicated from http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/nationalism/
Read more..August 23, 2018
