Growing a Family
By NZB3
I’ve been bombarded with the term “Growing a family” one time too many by the Official Media so that I want to unpack it. I find ‘growing’ a family to be a loaded term in two ways. First up though, what is the meaning of the term? Kiwi parenting websites and Google quickly inform me […]
Read more..March 21, 2022
1899: A General Inspection
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 20 March, 1899,: The third visit to New Zealand by the Salvation Army’s founder, General William Booth. His religious army of Social Justice Warriors (complete with self-given rank¹) were a sect of Methodism and they were riding high at the end of the C19th. Thousands of New Zealanders came to […]
Read more..March 20, 2022
1989: Kavanagh College
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Catholic school in New Zealand’s most Presbyterian city, Dunedin, dates back to 1989 but has much deeper roots. Kavanagh College is an amalgamation of other Catholic schools from the 1870s and 1890s. The College was named after the fourth Catholic Bishop of Dunedin who had died earlier that decade. Kavanagh’s values: Respect, Justice, Truth, […]
Read more..March 19, 2022
2022: The Peasants’ Revolt
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
England’s Black Death and New Zealand’s COVID Epidemic have so much in common. What keeps mainstream historians from pointing the following things out is that observing them in the first place goes against the partisan grains that allowed them to pass their exams or achieve their station or be awarded their grants and tenures in […]
Read more..March 17, 2022
2000: Radical Conservatism
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Jenny Shipley failed to have National 4.0 re-elected in 1999. She had been Prime Minister almost exactly 2 years, having executed a successful leadership coup against Prime Minister Jim Bolger. Helen Clark’s Labour 5.0 came to power leaving Shipley to battle the high odds against an Opposition Leader not being replaced by a smoking crater […]
Read more..March 16, 2022
1937: No. 75 Squadron
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 15 March, 1937, No. 75 Squadron was reformed by the Royal Air Force. New Zealand poured her men and resources into this British squadron from an early date. On 1 October 1946 this Kiwi squadron was transferred to the New Zealand Royal Airforce. Not just the people and equipment but the title and regalia […]
Read more..March 14, 2022
Playing Media Dodgeball
By NZB3
This headline is fake: ‘PM Jacinda Ardern has filled to have Ryan Bridge banned from all major platforms, and rejects any further interviews with the reporter.’ Someone with such a thick Old Kiwi accent as to pronounce, and therefore phonetically spell, “failed” as ‘filled’ apparently worked it up on their PC then took a photo […]
Read more..March 13, 2022
1965: Liesure Island
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
‘Leisure Island’ was established at Mt Maunganui in 1965 on Moturiki Island. Latter (1981) named Mt Maunganui Marineland, there were swimming pools, bumper boats and water slides. It was home to a zoo of sea animals: seals and dolphins and penguins. Moturiki had otherwise been an abandoned rock quarry and even further back in the […]
Read more..March 11, 2022
1955: Opo
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 9 March, 1956, the dolphin idolised by New Zealand was found dead in a tidal rock pool. During that Atomic Age summer of 1955/56 she was a big deal to New Zealand as well as to the wider world. By rigorous consistency, this Opononui visitor had the same naming system applied to […]
Read more..March 7, 2022
1913: Maori Man Applies to be Europeanised
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 4 March, 1913, the 25 year old Rangi Kerehema said he didn’t want to be a Maori any more. Rangi applied to the Earl of Liverpool, the last man to hold the office of Governor of New Zealand, to declare him a European. The possibility of such a thing had […]
Read more..March 4, 2022
1979: From Sofinsky to Putin
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Back in December 1979 Communists were caught red-handed tampering with New Zealand elections. The Security Intelligence Service observed the Soviet Ambassador, Vasevolod Sofinsky, covertly passing large sums of money to the local Socialist Unity Party (SUP.) Prime Minister Rob Muldoon (National 3.0) responded to the Sofinsky Affair by booting the Ruskie out of New Zealand. […]
Read more..March 3, 2022
“Feels Imported”
By NZB3
The Law of The State went through a messy divorce with Justice when our country was young and have been fighting for custody ever since.1 As this found meme shows, we have the Revolt vs. The Police. One side was given the benefit of a High Court Judgement declared the Mandate illegal in their case. […]
Read more..March 3, 2022
