1879: Solemn Lessons at Kaitangata
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, at c.9am on 21 February, 1879, our first large-scale industrial disaster occurred at Kaitangata coal mine in Otago. Some 24 women were made widows and 88 children lost their fathers. The death toll was 35 men and boys who lost everything. Most of the men had not been killed by […]
Read more..February 21, 2022
If You Get Hurt Who Gets Harmed?
By NZB3
Oh bugger off Government Accident Compensation Corporation with your latest patronising propaganda campaign. New Zealanders are not kindergarten idiots in need of being told how to chop wood or reach for something up high on a shelf. Truth is the government definitely don’t care if you come to harm. They care that you might claim […]
Read more..February 21, 2022
The Media Priesthood
By NZB3
I like this picture of a media priestess. The steeple behind conjures up the image of a church. The colored panel of screens resemble a stained glass window of a cathedral. The Fourth Estate has taken over the role previously held by the Church in our society. Using words they are a sophisticated form of […]
Read more..February 19, 2022
Policeman’s Pirouette
By NZB3
The cops said they would tow on Friday. They said they would have it done by Monday. They said they’d do it on Tuesday, no Wednesday. Thursday came and went. Today, Friday, they said “Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said threatening to tow the vehicles of anti-mandate protesters in Wellington had escalated tensions in an unsafe […]
Read more..February 19, 2022
2018: Auckland Regional Fuel Tax
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 1 July 2018 the Phil Goff Mayoralty of Auckland instituted a Regional Fuel Tax (RTF) set to last until 30 June 2028. This currently means a tax of 10c per litre which is in turn taxed as GST by the central government in Wellington. In other words, it’s another $11.50 government steals from you […]
Read more..February 18, 2022
1989: The Brown Trout of Gore
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in Anarchist New Zealand History, 18 Feb, 1989, Bob Jones officially unveiled the giant brown trout of Gore. When is a trout dead? It’s in the eyes according to design artist Errol Allison. In creating the Giant Trout of Gore he made sure the pupil of his fish was off-center. Here’s the way it […]
Read more..February 17, 2022
“Isn’t it time you packed up your tent and went home before everything turns nasty?”
By NZB3
Kerre McIvor’s talkback editorial calls for Freedom Protesters to “pack up their tents” before “everything turns nasty.” That style of threat reminds me of a viscous old school mistress I had as a kid of Kerre’s same generation. Come to think of it, she had the same hair that probably comes from the same bottle. […]
Read more..February 17, 2022
1770: Banks Peninsula Discovered
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today’s the day, 16 February 1770, Banks Peninsula was discovered by Cook’s Endeavour. Record-keeping was less impressive in October 1809 aboard similar ship, Pegasus, but that crew did make the observation that this was a Peninsula not to be an island as Cook had thought. Of course, it had been an island once. When the […]
Read more..February 16, 2022
Freedom Protest is Stonewalled by Every Party?
By NZB3
“Has there ever before been a protest to parliament that was stonewalled by every party? What the heck is going on?” asks Lindsay Mitchell. This is a question NZB3 answered using a model taught to thousands of sociology students at our universities. Professor Robert K. Merton’s Social Structure and Anomie (1938) is the most popular […]
Read more..February 16, 2022
2021: Radio Hauraki Gets Woke
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Around about the turn of the year 2021, I noticed Radio Hauraki had started saying ‘Hauraki’ funny. Instead of ‘How-racky’ they’ve started saying ‘Hoe-raki.’ The new way is apparently what academic Māori SJW types, and State school teachers, want it to be. Their argument is that it’s the *proper* way to speak and if you […]
Read more..February 15, 2022
Freedom Protest “Unsafe” and “Disorganised”
By NZB3
“To be amongst the protestors is both calming and exhilarating. There’s a strong sense of trust in one another which has been long denied by lockdown separations, physical distancing and masking. People are working together to overcome adversities thrown at them by nature or the state” wrote Lindsay Mitchell last night. Unsafe? Better quarantine all […]
Read more..February 14, 2022
1890: Raiders of the Maori Skulls
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 13 February the large Sweedish barque Olaf Trygvarson departed Whangaroa under charter to carry a large cargo of timber for the Kauri Timber Company. These were the early days of what became a huge mega company with a history stretching on to the 1970s/80s. Captain Meijer wasn’t just shipping timber though but also a […]
Read more..February 13, 2022
