AHNZ ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Back in 1847, Governor George Grey’s Government got its fingers into the business of banking. Grey created something called The Colonial Bank of Issue which was a colonial version of the latest State bank we have: Kiwi Bank (est 2001.) Private New Zealanders, of
Doug “Uncola” Lynn thetollonline.com In this four-minute video below, American young people were asked questions about American history. Listen to their answers and you’ll know how our nation was lost. Even if you only have 30-seconds, start at the 3:54 mark and hear a teacher
Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz On the 30th of June 1939, the first edition of the New Zealand Listener magazine was published. A major magazine in this country for just over 80 years, it expired in April 2020. How did it become such a prominent publication? First the Government
Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Last month, June 2020, Hamilton City Council famously tore out the statue of the man their city was named after, Captain John Hamilton. They did this because they understood that the temporary flare-up of Black Lives Matter protestors had the agenda of vandalising
In the light of all the ongoing hooha from the BLM lot, and assorted bandwagon-jumpers in New Zealand, I found myself thinking about where the outraged protests, statue-defacing and clamour for renaming anything deemed offensive by the braindead mob, might extend. At the higher end, what about Queen
Every time a socialist experiment collapses into ruin, repression and starvation, the invariably well-fed, bourgeois enthusiasts of socialism in the West chirp, “But that’s not real socialism!” The latest object lesson is Venezuela. Just over a decade ago, Venezuela was the latest cause celebre for the left. Socialists
Elisa deCourcy Australian National University Martyn Jolly Australian National University It is little wonder the life of Hemi Pomara has attracted the attention of writers and film makers. Kidnapped in the early 1840s, passed from person to person, displayed in London and ultimately abandoned, it is a story of indigenous
If you were wondering what that noise echoing across Australia last week was, it was a cacophonous wailing and gnashing of teeth issuing forth from the exclusive Sydney harbourside suburb of Ultimo. The site of this clamour of bourgeois rage and despair was the Ultimo headquarters of Australia’s billion-
Nathan Smith Chief Editor nzinitiative.org.nz As a Millennial, a worrying new trend among my generation is to simply cancel what you don’t like. Sure, some things might be outdated and it isn’t for me to tell a private company what it can or can’t do
The Red Guards of the New Cultural Revolution tear down statues and try to vindicate their ignorant vandalism by pointing to the monuments removed after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the people who survived actual communism acted in marked contrast to the mindless destruction of the idiot mobs
GOVERNMENT COMES TO NEW ZEALAND The Governor of New South Wales wants to appoint a “British Resident in New Zealand” (a position transplanted from colonial India), to go with the Justice of the Peace already appointed. The British Secretary of State approves. James Busby, a grape grower from New South
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
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’
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
