Government English, Government History
By NZB3
Would you trust a Government School with your child’s education? “In Canterbury about 150,000 adults have no or only Level 1 qualifications, meaning they have a reading age roughly equivalent to a 14-year-old.” “Across New Zealand, it is estimated that more than 1 million adults have literacy difficulties in their everyday lives.”- New Zealand’s ‘basic skills […]
Read more..September 12, 2019
The ‘Catch 22’ of Voting
By NZB3
Understand something: The State doesn’t want you, the individual, to have power in your own destiny. Your preferences, your goals, your future doesn’t belong to you so far as The State is concerned. Same goes for your children. Facebook offered me free credit to boost a post. By sentiment I’m against paying for views because […]
Read more..September 12, 2019
Transliterated Maori
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
How did the Maori language/s change to incorporate new words from new people they met? Where do ‘loan words’ come from, or were they imposed from without or did Maoris adapt their own language? A thread of comments from an earlier post… L.Jarman– Maori had no written language, it was the Europeans who decided it […]
Read more..September 12, 2019
1972: Te Reo Maori Claim
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In the 1870s Maoris petitioned The State to compulsorily ban their language from schools. They had come to detest it and made repeated efforts to get rid of it. In the 1970s Maoris petitioned The State to compulsorily insert their language into schools. The ‘Te Reo Maori Claim’ asserted that the Maori language was actually […]
Read more..September 11, 2019
Teach Our History?
By NZB3
Anything The State turns its hand to will wind up achieving the opposite of its stated aims every single time. That holds for teaching history as well as for Race Relations, BTW. There’s nothing you can’t make worse by adding more Government to it! The Human Rights Commission is overstepping its brief by lobbying for […]
Read more..September 10, 2019
1842: Death of Hobson
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 10 September, 1842: Governor Hobson died in office from a cardiac arrest. You’ll find his remains in a public tomb beside the city-side of Grafton Bridge, Auckland. It reads.. “THE GRAVE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM HOBSON R.N. NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST GOVERNOR…WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MEETING OF THE MAORI CHIEFS WHICH RESULTED IN […]
Read more..September 10, 2019
When The Last Boomer Dies, God Will Return To Earth
By VJM
The Boomer is an utterly Godless creature. Having completely forsaken divine guidance and surrendered to ego, it lives a life of pure narcissism, driven only by instinct, lurching from one impulse-fuelled drama to the next. However, there is always a resurgent spark of yang everytime yin appears triumphant. When the last Boomer perishes, God will […]
Read more..September 10, 2019
There is no letter ‘s’ in the Maori language
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There is no letter ‘s’ in the Maori language. When the Maoris took up English words one of the first things they did was to strip out every ‘s’. Thus, ‘soldier’ becomes ‘hoia’, ‘Samson’ is ‘Hamahona’, ‘soup, ‘hupa’. My understanding is that Maoris not born to it as children simply could not produce the required […]
Read more..September 10, 2019
1937: First State House Built?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today, 18 September, 1938: Statist history will tell you, the first State House was built In New Zealand. The one they mean is at 12 Fife Lane, Miramar, Wellington. First Labour 1.0 State House, yes. First State House, no. Government has been getting its grubby hands into housing from the about the 1860s or earlier. State History simply […]
Read more..September 9, 2019
1985: GMV Wairua
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history: 9 September, 1985; Wairua’s last New Zealand Crossing. GMV Wairua was built by The State in 1961 to serve as freight and passenger ferry over the hard core stretch of water between the South Island and Stuart Island; Foveaux Strait. In 1985, as with so many other things, the new Labour […]
Read more..September 8, 2019
A Universal Basic Income Would Pay For Itself In The Bitching It Would Prevent
By VJM
The Internet is full of bitching about who is entitled to what and who is ripping who off. Endless back-and-forths that have been running for decades already, and sometimes for centuries before the Internet was invented. This bickering does a tremendous amount of social damage, fostering distrust, suspicion and cynicism at all levels. As this […]
Read more..September 8, 2019
1989: Jim Anderton Splits
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Jim Anderton (79) died in 2018. Man, did age catch up with him in the end, as if having a hand in the political ring has been the drug that kept him vital. Not winning the 2010 Christchurch Mayoralty, by that view, has been the death of the ageing drummer boy. He really did represent […]
Read more..September 7, 2019
