Vodafone Rebrand
By NZB3
Q: What do you think of this. Am I missing something: Vodafone to block child pornography sites? Or is it a warm up for hate speech? A: It’s copying Countdown’s branding. Remember how Countdown supermarkets brought in Kiri Hannifin came in to re-brand them as the Social Justice supermarket chain? Gone the assuring white male […]
Read more..June 24, 2023
1853: Karanama’s Reserve
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Chief Te Hapuku had a lavish lifestyle that put him into great debt. Fortunately he was able to sell large blocks of Hawke’s Bay land right out from under his people who trusted him to administer it. One big land disposal in late December 1853 was conducted with Hapuku’s son and heir Cranmer (Karanama Te […]
Read more..June 22, 2023
Anarchist Explains Foreign Aid
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Anarchist explains..Foreign Aid. When natural or man-made disaster occurs somewhere on the planet we often hear that the Government of the day is sending (on our behalf with our money) ‘help’ in the form of foreign aid. Where does the money go? Generally we never find that out and have lost interest and moved on […]
Read more..June 16, 2023
Judith’s Return
By NZB3
You want healthy cynicism at the meta-level about New Zealand politics from an Anarchist not afraid to go out on a limb with bold, testable, predictions? You’ve come to the right place! Judith Collins, previous leader of the National Party, defeated at the 2020 election by Jacinda Ardern’s incumbent Labour 6.0, is coming back. Nobody […]
Read more..June 13, 2023
1985: Refinery to Auckland Pipeline
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This month in New Zealand history, June, 1985, the Refinery to Auckland Pipeline (RAP) was officially opened. Just as the blood vessels sustain the life force of a living organism, the RAP served as conduits, channeling the vital energy of refined petroleum products from the Marsden Point Refinery to the heart of Auckland, nurturing the […]
Read more..June 6, 2023
1979: Country Courthouse Culling
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 11 October, 1979, Minister of Justice Jim McLay (National 3.0) dropped the axe on 24 of New Zealand’s country courthouses. Among the fallen was Waimate’s Magistrate’s Court building built in the same year Waimate was proclaimed a borough: 8 September 1879.¹ Many of the other local courthouses were heritage buildings too and at the […]
Read more..June 4, 2023
1862: Warden’s Courts
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Warden’s Courts were established as early as 1862 to administer property rights over miners’ claims. They ran all the way up to late March 1973. Kirk’s Labour 3.0 Ministry abolished them. By this time the main business would have been granting mining and prospecting rights and collecting the applicant’s fees. “..the amount of work before […]
Read more..June 3, 2023
1925: Ratana Church Goes Public
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history (31 May 1925) Wiremu Ratana publicly proclaimed his church: Ratana Church. The Anglican Church that Ratana had broken away from responded by excommunicating him and his followers. On this day Ratana Church went public but had been up and running since William’s (Wiremu’s) delirious stage in his influenza fever of 1918. Ref. […]
Read more..May 31, 2023
1991: Edmund Hillary in Orewa
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Visit Orewa and you’ll soon find this 1991 statue of Edmund Hillary (left.) But if you’re like me you’ll wonder what possible business this very non-mountainous seaside town has to do with him and….you’ll be disappointed. Zip’o. Maybe Hillary’s father visited and performed some landscaping tasks for money at some stage. That’s the lot. Hillary’s […]
Read more..May 29, 2023
2022: Whiria te Tangata
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand has recently funneled $5.8 million of your money toward “sustainability of the library sector” and in particular produced 12 “sustainability champions.” Now fully trained in “dismantling White privilege” and “colonising the library” the Champions take their freshly galvanised indoctrinations back to our local communities. For example, you are going […]
Read more..May 27, 2023
1859: The Christchurch Press
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 25 May, 1859, the first ever edition of the Christchurch Press newspaper. First Lyttleton Times editor, James FitzGerald, had come back to the colony from England to find his old paper had been captured by undesirables. So, he started up his own today in a small cottage: The Press. That’s more competition […]
Read more..May 25, 2023
1922: First Traffic Signals
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in Auckland history, 22 May, 1922, New Zealand’s first traffic signals were put to use. Prior to this the state of the art technology would have been the pair of white gloves a police constable on point duty wore to draw attention to his hand signals. The “ingenious” signal poles were placed at the […]
Read more..May 22, 2023
