1972: Otama Water Supply Scheme
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Free men tamed the land and harassed the water upon which their lives and districts depended. For example, the Southland farming community at Otama who, in 1972, built their own water supply system. Then, along came a spider. The politician. Took what was built. Let the people keep some of what they themselves had made. […]
Read more..July 26, 2021
Maoris Now Exempt From Paying Rates
By NZB3
Some Maoris realised long ago that paying rates was optional for them. There was no way to force them. So, good for them, they didn’t pay. The unpaid tens of millions have been going up and up. Non-Maoris would be evicted, their land and home sold off Penny Bright-style. “All unpaid rates arrears on Māori […]
Read more..July 26, 2021
Your Post Has Been Formatted As A Question
By NZB3
Facebook, stop demoting what I accept/know/accept/express as a ‘question’. I’m not asking questions. I’m not the Q in someone else’s FA. I’m not a penitent to your answers or a pilgrim visiting your landscape. I’m not a guy at the back of the hall with my hand raised hoping to be picked so someone under […]
Read more..July 25, 2021
Three Waters
By NZB3
If this video sticks to the text it’s the best explanation I’ve seen of Labour 6.0’s play for the nation’s water tax base. Central Government is seeking a take-over of the water-supply tax base currently held by Local Government. The scheme is to be called ‘Three Waters’. Bruce Smith, Westland District Mayor, has done a […]
Read more..July 24, 2021
1200: Domesticated Moa
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
So Minecraft has moas now and they can be tamed? Well, there may be precedent…. “We learn from Mr. Shand that the Moriori of the Chatham Islands kept sea-gulls, tern, and parquets tamed, and that they protected the wingless birds of the island, only allowing them to be taken for food at certain seasons. Is […]
Read more..July 22, 2021
2005: ACT 2.0
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Back in 2006 the ACT Party had declined to just two elected frenemies, MPs Rodney Hide and Heather Roy. On the party’s administrative Board were two young men who were crazy about politics and had big ambitions for the future. The board membership aided their securing posts as parliamentary staffers. They are David Seymour (circle […]
Read more..July 21, 2021
1998: Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Know your history – Kimihia ō kōrero tuku iho. Richard Tankersley hails his tribe as ‘trailblazers’ for their successful Treaty of Waitangi claim culminating in the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act (1998). Among other things, $170,000,000 cash and exemption from income tax were carried away down the “blazing” trail. But were generation 1998 really the […]
Read more..July 20, 2021
1948: Polio School Holiday
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Poliovirus once ravaged New Zealand with periodic epidemics, paralising our children for life if not killing them. The most deaths in one year were in 1925, when 173 people died. We’ve had multiple epidemics, thousands of cases, hundreds of deaths and all before our population reached 2 million. In 1947 an epidemic was so bad […]
Read more..July 19, 2021
1997: The Death of Mat Rata
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 18 July, 1997,…. Matiu Rata was a Labour 3.0 Minister and one of the many men who helped launder millions of dollars of taxpayer money using the cover story that it was owed to Maori plaintiffs. He wasn’t as good as Doug Graham (National 4.0) or Chris Finlayson (National 5.0) but was […]
Read more..July 17, 2021
1878: Russian Scare
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
A Victorian gentleman surveys Auckland Harbor from the top of Mt Victoria in 1878. Devonport, below, already very established. It was the time of our second ‘Russian Scare’. The reason for the photo may be a propagandistic one, a fantasy war- George Grey vs Tsar Alexander of Russia! Our Premier (facing an election the […]
Read more..July 16, 2021
1966: Kaipara Nuclear Power Station
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The National 2.0 Government (Dec 1960–Dec 1972) certainly were an energetic gang when it came to Statist projects! They gave us decimal coins, Rotorua Museum, and the aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point. All of these things are living history and have been topical this week; I wrote about them all. Did you know they were […]
Read more..July 15, 2021
1905: Murchison Madmen
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 14 July, 1905, a frustrated South-Nelson settler ignited his dynamite vest. For Joseph Sewell it was instakill but everyone else gathered around Murchison Courthouse survived. The Sewell family had been going tough on their block since the 1880s. Migrating to New Zealand was no sweet deal and the life ended up killing […]
Read more..July 14, 2021
