History
Museum Board Member Called for Offensive ‘Cave Men’ Display to Go 15 Years Ago
A former Canterbury Museum board member said he told the board an exhibit representing moa-hunter Maori was offensive and asked for it to be removed 15 years ago. Ko Tane Maori Cultural Experience owner Dave Brennan was appointed by his Ngai Tuahuriri runanga and Ngai Tahu iwi to represent them
They Laid Down the Law
Six or eight thousand years ago, they laid down the law The B-52s, “Mesopotamia”. As the left tears down more and more of our Western heritage and, not coincidentally, descend further and further into barbarism, it’s more important than ever to remember how we acquired civilisation. Civilisation didn’t
How a ‘Gonzo’ Press Gang Forged the Ned Kelly Legend
Kerrie Davies UNSW Willa McDonald Macquarie University Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism is the “first rough draft of history”. It’s also the first rough draft of inspiration for movies and books “based on a true story”. Since four Victorian journalists witnessed Ned Kelly’s
In Defence of Our Colonial Past
Some people, it seems, are smarting from ‘white guilt’ and looking ahead in hope – of course through pink-lensed spectacles – to a chardonnay-infused, post-colonial future. One such anonymous person, considerably younger than me I must admit, wrote an open letter to his or her old private school via The Telegraph recently
NZ Herald Appears to Have Memory-Holed This Article
An article written by Peter Jackson that was published by the NZ Herald on the 16th of June has been removed, and it has not been re-published by any other mainstream media outlet. It included comments by Ngapuhi leader David Rankin that turned the whole Black Lives Matters trend on
The British Come to New Zealand For Good: Chapter Six Part Five
By 1842, 3,000 Maori had converted to Christianity. Or had they? The Maori are a complicated people. They take what they like from the new religions and convert it to their own use. Some begin to believe that they are one of the “Lost Tribes of Israel”. Others use
“Every Statue and Street Building Has Been Renamed”
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com Letter from Patrick Cooper to Gisborne Herald: In George Orwell’s “1984” he wrote that “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.
The Lynching of History
Welcome to the Lynching of History, I hope you’re enjoying the spurious spectacle. In the current episode, we’ve seen the super-sanctimonious eye of contemporary woke-think focused on some of the peculiarities particular to several past-performers of assumed cultural iconology. True it is that some were never deserving; our
Doing What Works
Dieuwe De Boer rightminds.nz This is the speech I gave on Saturday 20th June at the New Conservative Conference 2020 in Auckland. I was asked to speak on a campaign message of “Doing What Works”. At the AGM I was also voted in as a board member. I hope
Kiwi As
On 21 September 1863, John Grigg arrived in New Zealand on the Annie Wilson with his wife and three children. Following his wife Emma’s death in 1867, John moved from Auckland to Thames. He subsequently married his second wife Sarah, who also pre-deceased him, and some years later he
On the White New Zealand Policy
Redline rdln.wordpress.com Attitudes in this country have changed considerably over the past century and racism is far less overt than it once was. However, racism still persists and is most blatant when it comes to refugees and migrants who are still too frequently viewed as less worthy of
