Disruptions in Wellington
By NZB3
Glad to see ex-politician and Anarchist Rodney Hide supporting the pro-freedom protests at Parliament. “I support the protest 100 percent,” he says, on his blog BASSETT, BRASH & HIDE. I support it 100% too within the context it exists in. The proviso is that I would prefer people be Anarchists and not Statists. Watching the […]
Read more..February 10, 2022
“Never been more than 11 COVID-19 patients in ICU at any one time”
By NZB3
The mainstream, aided by the media, aided by government PR, keep re-inforcing that narrative that a molecule is holding us hostage and not ourselves. ‘COVID means this,’ ‘Delta did that,’ or ‘Omicron means that..’ The truth has always been, as it always must be, that we are responsible for how we respond to any crisis […]
Read more..February 9, 2022
1988: The Meade Report
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. The Ministry of Education was the only department not to prepare a briefing for an in-coming new Minister in accord with the protocol of assuming an election might mean a change of Executive Government. In the […]
Read more..February 4, 2022
1916: HMS New Zealand vs HMAS Australia
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The HMS New Zealand was a huge election bribe and when it finally came to fruition the Government that set it in motion was gone and their opposition was now in power and reaped the propaganda rewards. That happens sometimes in New Zealand politics. Australians were propagandised the same way, yielding the HMAS Australia not […]
Read more..January 31, 2022
1985: All Aboard The Race Bus
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
I was thinking today about how there never used to be any such word as ‘racism’. For example, in Alan Ward’s 1973 book A Show of Justice: Racial Amalgamation in Nineteenth Century New Zealand he had to use the word ‘racialism’. And if ever there were a book in need of the word ‘racism’ that […]
Read more..January 28, 2022
1865: Superintendent Nelson Missing to this Day
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 28 January, 1865, the Superintendent of Nelson Province was drowned in office. John Perry Robinson had completed a visit to Greymouth and now tried to make another stop, going ashore in a boat at the Buller River to stay a while and explore. The boat hit the bar, killing 3 crewman along with the […]
Read more..January 27, 2022
1842: Manchester Unity
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The last refuge of freedom against Big Brother is memory; The greatest horror of Orwell’s 1984 is the dictator’s attempt to wipe out history. Libertarians in New Zealand have long argued that we didn’t need The State to run our schools, build our roads, or provide social welfare. In reading our State-approved history books you would […]
Read more..January 26, 2022
1937: The Most Powerful Radio Transmitter in the Southern Hemisphere
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 25 January, 1937, The State extended its reach into the homes of New Zealanders. The occasion was a powerful new radio transmitter for one of the first two radio stations to have been nationalised, 2YA in Wellington. Prime Minister Michael J. Savage had this to say.. “Radio will soon be as necessary […]
Read more..January 25, 2022
1911: Eugenics or Extinction
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 25 January, is poet Robby Burns’ birthday and has long been celebrated as such, especially in Otago. Back in 1911 the Attorney General/Minister of Justice himself, Hon Dr John Findlay, gave an address at the Burns anniversary celebration in Dunedin. He had another engagement first though… Findlay gave Dunedin’s Eugenics Education Society […]
Read more..January 24, 2022
1971: Shantytown
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 23 January, 1971, The West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society opened Shantytown near Greymouth. It is a mostly New Zealand Victorian-era immersive museum as well as being the living home of several clubs and societies. It was part of a GI Generation and Silent Generation burst of civic energy that swept over New Zealand […]
Read more..January 22, 2022
Agreement With Government Gives Me A Strong Voice
By NZB3
Green Party co-leader says that agreement with Labour 6.0 gives his party a “strong voice.” Now that is what I call saying “yes” to power! It’s downright Orwellian Double-Speak to say that Agreement = Strong Voice but here we are. To be precise, James doesn’t think he means capitulation/submission/obedience is what makes him strong. He […]
Read more..January 19, 2022
1835: Darwinian’s New Zealand Christmas
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“December 21st [1835] Early in the morning we entered the Bay of Islands, and being becalmed for some hours near the mouth, we did not reach the anchorage till the middle of the day.” So began a Christmas visit of just 9 days which was a dearly bought by the HMS Beagle considering the many […]
Read more..January 17, 2022
