2000s: History: The New Zealand Nuclear Family
By AHNZ
History: The New Zealand nuclear family itself!? Mother and father form a pair bond to pool their resources to raise children, thus meeting their biological attachment needs. It’s on the way out according to NZ Herald Senior Writer Geraldine Jones today and single mother households are in. Geraldine should know if she’s done it twice! […]
Read more..August 29, 2018
1964: Nuclear Mother
By AHNZ
1964, Cover of Woman’s Weekly. Why aren’t women more efficient in the home? “Whose side were they on anyway?” asks Darian Zam. How to explain this encouragement of household domestic excellence toward only one gender and not the other? Division of Labour It’s the Division of Labour. Dad’s single income supports 7 children or so and […]
Read more..December 27, 2018
1960s: Richard Scarry’s New Zealand
By AHNZ
Richard Scarry’s (1919-1994) books were the stuff of what Generation X children grew up with in New Zealand. Anthropomorphic animals heavily populated busy towns full of activities, buildings, workplaces, and vehicles. The books depict Western Civilisation during a booming culture phase of full employment and a bustling economy. Christmas. Nuclear families. Cooperation. Wealth. Cowboys and […]
Read more..September 4, 2023
1909: Anna Stout’s Reasons
By AHNZ
Anna Stout got her voice back during a holiday to England after 11 years serving as wife to the Chief Justice of New Zealand. Prior to the New Zealand left-wing power couple of Anna and Robert being promoted to this post they had advocated for all sorts of Progressive, Feminist, anti-vice, Social Justice causes all […]
Read more..November 14, 2022
1988: The Meade Report
By AHNZ
In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. The Department of Education was the only department not to prepare a briefing for an in-coming new Minister in accord with the protocol of assuming an election might mean a change of Executive Government. In the […]
Read more..February 4, 2022
2010: Meet The Colemans
By AHNZ
Back in time, before Progressive Enterprises handed the car keys of their New Zealand empire to General Manager of Everything, Kiri Hannifin, Countdown had another brand. The supermarket promoted itself as friendly to the white nuclear family and they called this family the Colemans. Elizabeth Ryley, Hannifin’s predecessor, was also a Communications and opinion analytics […]
Read more..September 6, 2021
1830s: Maori Children are Stuffed
By AHNZ
If you have a good family, a good father, you don’t need to invent one. No need to look for a fantasy hero father in a fictional film or comic. No need to pretend the father you have is good by a special act of imagination. No need to scour the past, to exhume examples […]
Read more..March 9, 2021
1909: Gothic Revival Hair
By AHNZ
The way we look at the distant past, such as the time period Anarchist History calls Dominion Victimhood Culture (c.1907-1912) is conditioned by the less distant past. Our intermediary to this 1909 ‘cartwheel hair style’ (image left) is the generation that followed and they were not so impressed. Miss Cothams’ hairstyle (I take it the […]
Read more..November 13, 2020
1957: Happy Families
By AHNZ
Baby Boomer kids at play: Happy Families. My premise is that a child’s play is preparation for life. These card sets, c.1957, show that the life New Zealand children (girls in particular) wanted to prepare for was the assembly of a nuclear family. Father, mother, master, and miss. Wholesome Patriarchy It is also an ethnically […]
Read more..January 13, 2019
1973: The Importance of Being Ernest Adams
By AHNZ
The once iconic Ernest Adams brand was part of the spirit of New Zealand and even a microcosm of the national history itself. We must ensure our country does not end in the same way. The 1930s company transitioned from an ambition to a spirit to what was, by 2000, a ghost. The ghost was […]
Read more..August 12, 2022
1830: Slaughter by Surprise
By AHNZ
Today in New Zealand history, 29 October, 1830, Te Rauparaha and 140 warriors armed with muskets left Kapiti Island to attack Akaroa. Slaughter by surprise was their plan. Here are two variations of a sketch depicting the bowpiece of Te Rauparaha’s war canoe. One is from the New Zealand Herald via Sir George Grey Special […]
Read more..October 29, 2021
1929: That Pommy Bastard
By AHNZ
Joseph Stewart Smith was a British boy of 15 in 1928 when he was plucked out of his native environment and forcibly acclimatised to the strange wilds of New Zealand. Without any doubt, this was traumatic to young Stewart but he repressed it. The final cut with home was being rejected at Southampton Dock by […]
Read more..January 28, 2020
