1902: Maori Parliament Shut Down
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 21 March, 1902, Te Kotahitanga, the Maori Parliament, shut shop forever. The Maori Parliament (1892 – 1902) had been an exercise of self-government by Maori ‘from the Bay of Islands to the Bluff.’ Essentially it was a great conference hosted at different locations over those 4 years. The idea was to agree […]
Read more..March 21, 2025
Dunedin Council Link Down
By NZB3
Today’s Otago Daily Times suggests something that Dunedin City Council have hidden something they didn’t want us to see. So I want to see it! “A video link showing two Dunedin City Council committee meetings was taken down for two days because of “potential legal concerns”. Footage of last Wednesday’s meetings was pulled by the […]
Read more..March 18, 2025
ZB on Ukraine
By NZB3
Early morning radio this morning had a bit of an interesting take on the Russia vs. Ukraine war in a way that stirred me to listen. Some of my best books or best ideas are the ones I hear rejected by others. When the orthodox view REALLY shows fear and resistance to something that’s the […]
Read more..March 17, 2025
1000 Years of Te Reo?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There is an unattributed meme floating around about the Maori language (see image.) Specifically it says that “And people who complain about Te Reo Maori should remember that Te Reo has been spoken here for nearly a thousand years….maybe more.” Is it true? ‘Maybe more than nearly a thousand years’ is a long time. How […]
Read more..March 16, 2025
1841: Breaking Up With Okiato
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 13 March, 1841, William Hobson’s Gang relocated to Auckland. He came on a summers day bringing gifts from far away. The settlement of Okaito was a fine girl. “What a good wife you would be,” said Hobson. Ah, but his life and love and lady was Auckland from the very […]
Read more..March 13, 2025
1840: The Ngati Whatua RFP
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Ngati Whatua had once been a successful Maori tribal brand with head office in today’s Auckland City. This territory, the Tamaki isthmus, had become such a competitive market that nobody in New Zealand could meet the operational fixed costs. Bracken and manuka took over where once there had been terraces and cultivations and so it […]
Read more..March 12, 2025
Wildlife Carbon Offset
By NZB3
So DOC, under Labour 6.0, were under the impression they could kill 46 species of wildlife, including some rare and protected species, as long as they did something nice to make up for it. Talk about carbon-offset mentality! “The Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) challenged the decision to grant the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi […]
Read more..March 10, 2025
1550: The Coming of the Hawaikians
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Austronesian Expansion out of Taiwan was firmly prehistoric for most of the past many hundreds of years. This migration has mostly moved humans east across the Pacific to populate the many islands along the way. It was not until about 1200 AD that one of the many forks decided they had made a wrong […]
Read more..March 7, 2025
1995: Mayor Georgina Beyer
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 1 November, 1995, Georgina Beyer became the mayor of the Wairarapa town of Carterton. This political success lasted about 12 years after which Beyer, deprived of other people’s money, toppled into poverty followed by sickness and death (died today, 6 March, 2023.) The life of this Boomer makes for a very interesting and instructive […]
Read more..March 6, 2025
1844: The Quick and the Dead
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history, on 26 February, 1844, Hugh Ross shot William Brewer dead in a Wellington street. The two lawyers had decided to settle their dispute over a case in the Wellington County Court outside of the law instead. This Hobson Honour Culture time period was characterised by people who took life personally and […]
Read more..March 1, 2025
1886: Butler’s Wall
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Some Arrowtown people are rather proactive about their old stone wall to the point of wanting to, essentially, pay an extra $2,000,000 in tax to speed up its restoration! Built by Peter Henderson in 1886 for £225 it has had little or no maintenance in these past 139 years. Apparently it needs fixing all of a […]
Read more..February 28, 2025
Jason Mika’s Welcome Mat?
By NZB3
What the hell was I listening to from Doctor/Professor Jason Mika on Monday morning? It sounded like he was welcoming in our new Chinese overlords on behalf of New Zealand China Council. Better play that back again… “A New Zealand China Council report says the ancient historic connection between Maori and Chinese people is a […]
Read more..February 26, 2025
