Political Era

July 9, 2019

By AHNZ

A chronology bounded by iterations of The State.

(Still under construction)

• New South Wales Annexation

• 1840: Akaroa
• 1840: Americans Visit Maori
• 1840: Auckland’s So-Called ‘First Lady’
• 1840: Bolton Street Cemetary
• 1840: “Britain did not want sovereignty over Māori”
• 1840: Comte de Paris
• 1840: Dissolving the Port Nicholson Settlers’ Council
• 1840: Hobson Crowns Himself
• 1840: Hobson Gang exercises British Sovereignty over the French at Akaroa
• 1840: Hobson’s Treaty Refused, Blankets Thrown Back At Him
• 1840: Lavaud and Hobson Make a Deal
• 1840: Maoris Given Negrohead Tobacco At Waitangi
• 1840: New Zealand’s First Taxman
• 1840: Purchase of Auckland
• 1840: Sovereignty over Stewart Island
• 1840: The Ngati Whatua RFP
• 1840: The Proclamations of Sovereignty
• 1840: The Treaty of Poihakena
• 1840: Tour of Duty or Tour of Booty?
• 1840: Wellington Anniversary
• 1840: Who Was Our First Governor? The Answer May Startle You…
• 1840s: Bad Boy Adventures in New Zealand

• Hobson Gang

• 1841: Auckland’s First Gaol
• 1841: Breaking Up With Okiato
• 1841: Cornwallis
• 1841: New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette
• 1841: Otawhao Mission
• 1841: The Colony of New Zealand
• 1841: William Symonds vs. Shark
• 1842: Crown admits failing to stop Maori from ‘enslaving’ Moriori
• 1842: Death of Hobson
• 1842: Fiery Death of Jules Dumont d’Urville
• 1842: Manchester Unity
• 1842: State vs Media
• 1842: The Bishop of New Zealand
• 1842: The Raupo Houses Act

• Robert FitzRoy

• 1843: First Punch and Judy in NZ
• 1843: Ovis Aries Canterbury
• 1843: The Wairau Affray
• 1843: Waiapawa Mission
• 1843: Woke White Woman Cancels Wairau Affray
• 1844: FitzRoy’s Pole
• 1844: George Angas Jr
• 1844: No shortage of Coquettish Wenches
• 1844: The Birth of Pastoralism
• 1844: The Quick and the Dead

• The Grey League 1.0

• 1845: The Sacking of Russell
• 1846: Almon Boulcott’s Farm
• 1846: Boulcott’s Farm Raid
• 1847: Howick Fencibles Land
• 1847: Panmure
• 1847: The Colonial Bank of Issue
• 1848: Admiral John Stokes
• 1848: Brunner’s Fleet
• 1848: Captain Stokes: On Maori Language
• 1848: New Edinburgh
• 1848: The Acheron Survey
• 1848: The Canterbury Association
• 1848: The Kemp Deed
• 1849: Feast at the Bay of Islands
• 1849: On The Government of Colonies
• 1850: Pilgrims Landing
• 1850: St Mary’s, Auckland
• 1851: Loburn
• 1851: Lyttleton Gaol
• 1851: New Zealand’s First Census
• 1851: Rangiora’s First House
• 1851: The Ngatipaoa Invasion of Auckland
• 1851: The Old Man of New Ulster
• 1852: Culverden
• 1852: Father of the New Zealand Turf
• 1852: From Patriarchy to Potted Plants
• 1853: G.J. Leech of Rangiora
• 1853: Karanama’s Reserve
• 1853: Oamaru Ferry Theory
• 1853: Sewell Pushed Into Public Life
• 1853: Stokes Point
• 1853:The Southern Provinces Almanac

• Robert Wynyard

• 1854: New Zealand’s First City, Christchurch
• 1854: New Zealand’s First Prime Minister?
• 1854: Red Deer
• 1855: Governor Browne
• 1855: Ironic: Auckland’s ‘Newmarket’
• 1855: Kaiapoi gets its first lock-up
• 1855: The Mackenzie Country Heist

• Thomas Gore Browne

• 1856: Invercargill
• 1856: Politics and Politicians Dissected
• 1856: The Christchurch Club
• 1856: The Local Posts Act
• 1857: Havelock History
• 1857: Superintendent William Moorhouse Elected

• Stafford 1.0

• 1858: Parliament Supreme
• 1859: Cameron and Macdonald
• 1859: New Zealand’s Carrington Event
• 1859: Northport
• 1859: NZI- Insurance by Compulsion?
• 1859: The Christchurch Press
• 1860: Kohimarama Conference
• 1860: The West Coast Purchase
• 1860: Victorian Navy Deployed to New Zealand
• 1860s: Did ANZACs Fight The Waikato War?
• 1860s: The Luminaries
• 1860s: The New Zealand Death
• 1860s: The Unhistoric Story, verse 4

• Fox 2.0

• 1861: Hauhau
• 1861: The Invasion of Otago

• Doormat Ministry

• 1862: Auckland Gas Company
• 1862: First Telegraph
• 1862: Kaitangata
• 1862: Warden’s Courts

• Fox-Whitaker

• 1863: Affair At Mauku
• 1863: Butlerian Jihad on Victorian Schooling
• 1863: Darwin Among the Machines
• 1863: Do We Need A 3rd Rangiriri Pa?
• 1863: Francis Joseph Glacier
• 1863: Harp of Erin Tunnel
• 1863: HMS Orpheus
• 1863: Just Chillin’ on the Waikato Frontier
• 1863: Martin Crossing the Delaware
• 1863: Mass Deaths in Otago
• 1863: New Zealand and the Pacific Slave Trade
• 1863: Oath of Betrayal
• 1863: Pollok Settlement
• 1863: Surrender of Rangiriri
• 1863: The Law Comes to Kaikoura
• 1863: The Sparrow and the Eagle
• 1863: The Waka Buster
• 1863: “To Make A Cullender of the Colony”

• Weld Ministry

• 1864: Battle of Moutoa
• 1864: Charlie’s First Day at Boarding School
• 1864: Christchurch Cathedral
• 1864: Coal on the Coast
• 1864: Fitzgerald’s Picnic Party
• 1864: Monmouth Redoubt
• 1864: Rangiaohia
• 1864: Swannanoa
• 1864: The Old Man of Rangiaohia
• 1864: The Storming of Gate Pa
• 1864: The Waite
• 1864: “White men are pitifully ignorant of the meaning of omens”

• Stafford 2.0

• 1865: Chch Public Smash and Burn Toll Road
• 1865: Fitz Dreams of Peace
• 1865: Native Rights Act
• 1865: New Zealand Governor Commits Suicide
• 1865: Superintendent Nelson Missing to this Day
• 1866: Battle of Omarunui
• 1866: Charleston
• 1866: “Did you think I was a banker?”
• 1866: Mangatapu Murders
• 1866: Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association
• 1866: Reuptake of Methamphetamine in the Beehive
• 1866: Te Kooti sent to Chatham Islands
• 1867: Pheasant, blackbirds, thrushes and starlings
• 1867: The Canterbury Museum
• 1867: The Wanganui Herald
• 1867: Tuahiwi
• 1867: Unveiling of Godley’s Statue
• 1868: Jailbreak
• 1868: Maxwell Falls
• 1868: Okaihau
• 1868: Superintendent Rolleston
• 1868: The Beak of the Bird
• 1868: The Poverty Bay Massacre

• The Vogel Gang 1.0

• 1869: Marton
• 1869: Mrs Richard Seddon
• 1869: Opepe
• 1869: University of Otago
• 1870: Lyttleton Burning
• 1870: The Truth about Smiling
• 1870: The University of New Zealand Act
• 1870s: Holloway’s Snake Oil
• 1870s: Sundowner
• 1870s: Taranaki Wool
• 1870s: Whitebait Exports
• 1871: Bean Rock Lighthouse
• 1871: First Commercial Diarying
• 1871: Rangiora Literary Institute
• 1872: Cobden Coal Mine
• 1872: Dannevirke
• 1872: Hochstetter Water Race
• 1873: I Am Iron Man
• 1873: New Zealand Excessive Legislation Mania Prevention Bill
• 1873: Softness of Brain
• 1873: The Platypus
• 1873: The Wiltshire Pedestrians
• 1873: When Auckland Took Fright
• 1874: A Fleet of American Whalers
• 1874: Transit of Venus
• 1875: Abolition of Provinces
• 1875: Eyreton Branch Line
• 1875: Jackson Bay
• 1875: Premier Daniel Pollen
• 1876: Death of Lord George Lyttleton
• 1876: Maoris Demand Extermination of Te Reo
• 1876: Mataura Paper Mill
• 1876: Minerva Rises
• 1876: Pembridge House

• The Grey League 2.0

• 1877: Dusky Sound Docherty
• 1877: George Grey, Premier
• 1877: Most Radical Idea of the Human Race
• 1877: The Education Act
• 1877: The Greymouth and Kumara Tramway
• 1878: Maori Land Court Ruckus in Maketu
• 1878: Premier George Grey’s Tour
• 1878: Russian Scare
• 1878: The Slow Poison of Civilisation

• Hall & Harry

• 1879: Parihaka Cult sends in The Ploughmen
• 1879: Puhoi Hotel
• 1879: Solemn Lessons at Kaitangata
• 1879: The Canterbury Riots
• 1880: Death of Chief Tainui
• 1880: Defeat of the Southland Hussars
• 1880: Mount Eden Railway Station
• 1880: Silencing the Deaf
• 1880s: “I’m going into Town”
• 1880s: Prohibition Creates Substitution Effect
• 1881: Bloodless End to the Affair at Parihaka
• 1881: King Tawhiao Visits Cambridge
• 1881: The Children of Parihaka (2012)
• 1881: The Critic (or, After Parihaka)
• 1881: Wait A Minute Chester! (or, After Parihaka)
• 1882: The Stolen: A Brief Review
• 1882: The Stolen: Full Review
• 1883: Auckland University College
• 1883: Oamaru Courthouse
• 1883: Utakura

• The Vogel Gang 2.0
  (Stout-Vogel Ministry)

• 1884: Eulogy for Helvetia
• 1884: Gore Gospel Temperance Society
• 1884: Health For The Maori
• 1885: A Damning Epitaph
• 1885: Government Tram of Death
• 1885: New Zealand in Tasmania
• 1885: St James hall, Mt Eden
• 1885: St James Mt Eden, Part II; Conjuring a Demolition
• 1885: The Aryan Maori
• 1885: The Club Hotel
• 1886: Butler’s Wall
• 1886: Devonport
• 1886: Kimbolton
• 1886: Mt Tarawera Exploded
• 1886: Reefton Electric
• 1886: Release the Ferret!
• 1886: Te Tiki a Tamamutu
• 1886: The Settlers Guide to New Zealand
• 1887: Tongariro National Park

• The Scarecrow Ministry

• 1888: Christ out of Christmas
• 1888: Reefton’s Electric Christmas
• 1888: The Reign of Grace
• 1889: Te Kooti- Sainted Old Santa?
• 1889: Te Kooti’s Homecoming
• 1890: Celebration of the Colony’s Jubilee
• 1890: One Man, One Vote
• 1890: Raiders of the Maori Skulls
• 1890: St Andrews Church of Loburn
• 1890: The Students of Truth
• 1890: Whakarewarewa Rugby
• 1890s: Project Possum
• 1890s: The Villa

• Liberal Era

• 1891: Land and Income Tax Assessment Act
• 1892: The Doctor of No Town
• 1892: The Past and Future of the Maori
• 1893: Atalanta’s Britches
• 1893: Greymouth-Hokitika Line
• 1893: Her Worship Elizabeth Yates
• 1893: Kate Sheppard
• 1893: Richard Seddon assumes Premiership of New Zealand.
• 1893: The Death of Ballance
• 1893: The Liberals’ Statist Plank
• 1895: Cobb and Co. on the job
• 1895: Mount Cook Hermitage Nationalised
• 1895: Our Execution Of Minnie Dean
• 1896: Brunner Mine Disaster
• 1896: Good Honest Chocolate
• 1896: Reeves Resigns
• 1896: Scientific Temperance Instruction
• 1896: The National Council of Women
• 1897: The British Zollverein
• 1898: Easter Encampment at Westport
• 1898: Getting Rid of Robert and Anna Stout
• 1898: The Kumi, A Taniwha on the Loose!
• 1898: Methodist Chapel West Auckland
• 1898: Old-age Pensions
• 1898: The Political Woman
• 1899: A General Inspection
• 1899: Boer War
• 1899: New Zealand’s First Aviation Fatality
• 1899: Ranfurly Bay
• 1899: The Ranfurly Bridge
• 1900: Bluff Courthouse
• 1900: Boer War Parade
• 1900: Maori Councils
• 1900: The Khaki Girls
• 1900: The Opium Petition
• 1900s: 2 Distinct Nations Rendered
• 1900s: Fake Plastic Maoriland
• 1901: Death of John McKenzie
• 1901: Hawera High School
• 1901: Lola Ridge
• 1901: Nationalised Nurses
• 1901: One Tree Hill
• 1901: Royal Archway of Dead Sheep
• 1901: Shoot the Boer
• 1901: The Great Cheviot Earthquake
• 1902: Ashes of Accountability in Tauranga
• 1902: Maori Parliament Shut Down
• 1902: Modern Santa
• 1902: Taipo Explosives Ltd.
• 1902: The Learned Eleventh
• 1902: Waimarino County
• 1903: Dusky Sound to Lake Manapouri Road
• 1903: Hokitika Town Clock
• 1903: Maori King Joins Executive Government
• 1903: Wireless Telegraphy Act
• 1904: Education Compilation Act
• 1904: No Santa Gifts for Maoris
• 1904: Ranfurly’s Farewell
• 1904: Wallace Troopers Memorial
• 1905: Duelling Steamships – 7 Killed
• 1905: Murchison Madmen
• 1906: Dunedin Railway Station
• 1906: Nelson’s 1906 Darwin Awards
• 1906: Remembering Rolleston
• 1906: Side-Saddle Aside
• 1906: The Maori Communistic System
• 1906: Westland Buy-election
• 1907: Cavern of Bones
• 1907: Emotional Insanity
• 1907: Plunket
• 1907: Smartphone Zombies Predicted
• 1907: Standing in the Sunshine
• 1907: Taxes Spent on State Weather Control Scheme
• 1907: Vote Machine
• 1908: Phony Baloney Balneology Boom
• 1908: Rexona
• 1908: Runanga Miners Hall
• 1908: The Great White Fleet Gift
• 1908: The Great White Fleet
• 1908: The Prime Minister and the Prophet
• 1908: Tudor Towers Bathhouse
• 1908: Wellington State Monopoly, Chinks Only!
• 1909: Anna Stout’s Reasons
• 1909: Blown to Atoms
• 1909: Gothic Revival Hair
• 1910: Buller Gorge
• 1910: Chew Chong Celebrated
• 1910: Election Campaign Disguised as Lord Kitchener’s Military Inspection
• 1910: Grafton Bridge
• 1910: Indecent Publications
• 1910: Lauderdale Betrayed by Government
• 1910: Radium Flour
• 1911: Eugenics or Extinction
• 1911: Powered Flight

• William Massey

• 1912: A Bazaar Permission Slip
• 1912: A Parliament Is Like A Play
• 1912: Back to the Future
• 1912: Compulsory Military Camps
• 1912: Muriwai Mystery
• 1912: Spring Cleaning at Waihi
• 1912: The Death of the Liberal Party
• 1912: The Kokatahi Band
• 1912: Waikeria Prison Farm
• 1912: We Have Got The Maxim Gun
• 1913: Maori Man Applies to be Europeanised
• 1913: Permission Slip to Raffle
• 1913: The Battlecruiser New Zealand a Gift to Empire?
• 1913: The Great Strike Boogaloo
• 1913: The Kaiser’s Christmas Card
• 1913: Walking To Happiness
• 1914: Frances Parker Arrested
• 1914: Just As The Sun Went Down
• 1914: Takanini
• 1914: The Light of Brightwater
• 1914: Westland Goldfields Jubilee
• 1915: Apologise for Gallipoli?
• 1915: Automobile Associations
• 1915: Canakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day
• 1915: Evacuation of Gallipoli
• 1915: Fiasco at Gallipoli
• 1915: Rudyard Kipling vs New Zealand Government
• 1915: The Battle of Chunuk Bair
• 1916: Birth of the Labour Party
• 1916: HMS New Zealand vs HMAS Australia
• 1916: Motorised Scooters
• 1916: Peter Fraser Incarcerated
• 1916: “The Devastating Hun”
• 1917: Don Buck’s Gumdigger Camp Scrapped
• 1917: Even if it takes all the men
• 1917: First Successful Alchemist
• 1917: Government Pool Explodes
• 1917: SMS Wolf Raids NZ
• 1917: The Runanga Payroll Robbery
• 1918: AARD
• 1918: Armistice Day
• 1918: Brownies
• 1918: Government Placebos for Influenza
• 1918: Great War Debating Chamber
• 1918: Influenza Memorials
• 1918: Our True ‘Greatest Pandemic’
• 1918: Pandemic: New Zealand vs. Tasmania
• 1918: Ratana Fever
• 1918: Surafend Massacre
• 1918: Tane Hemp Company Limited Suspension Bridge
• 1918: Te Paina Marae Raid
• 1918: The Otira Tunnel Was Already There
• 1918: The Ratana Church
• 1918: The Storming of King Edward Barracks
• 1918: The Truth about the Influenza Epidemic
• 1918: Uncle Scrim’s Pandemic
• 1919: Bulford Kiwi
• 1919: Combustible Krauts
• 1919: General Election
• 1919: Mauku Figurine
• 1920: Alexander Turnbull Library Nationalised
• 1920: Cook Strait Sky Captain
• 1920: “Inane Maories danced & made weird noises at me!!”
• 1920: Royal Prince Visit
• 1920s: Psychic Bike Locks
• 1920s: The Rise of Four Square stores
• 1921: Christchurch Electric Car Fleet
• 1921: Jellicoe Hall
• 1921: Rob’s Birthday
• 1921: The New Zealand School Dental Service
• 1921: Turangawaewae
• 1921: Weka Protection
• 1922: Eskimo Pie
• 1922: First Traffic Signals
• 1923: Farewell to Otira Coaches

• Gordon Coates

• 1925: Burke Street Harbour Project
• 1925: Death of William Massey
• 1925: Dunedin Council Anti-Motorcar?
• 1925: Henderson Creek
• 1925: Labour 0.0
• 1925: Maori Boomerang Discovered
• 1925: Ratana Church Goes Public
• 1925: “The Segregation Era”
• 1925: Waitangi Oil Springs
• 1925: Waiuku Public Library
• 1926: Henderson Town Hall
• 1926: Mainstream Eugenics
• 1926: The Wonder Man
• 1927: Driving tests and licences introduced by the Henderson Town Board
• 1927: Daylight Saving
• 1928: Another Liberal Monument
• 1928: Race Realism
• 1929: Auckland’s Lost Lake, St. John
• 1929: Bessie Lee and the Brewery
• 1929: One Day Flight
• 1929: Primitive Economics of the NZ Maori
• 1929: That Pommy Bastard
• 1929: The Mau Riot
• 1930: Death of Joseph Ward
• 1930: Government Making Our Pants Explode
• 1930: Kirwee Colonel
• 1930: The Sugarbag Years
• 1930s: I’m envious of Uncle Scrim
• 1930s: Kauri dieback?
• 1930s: Nigger Brown
• 1930s: Systematic Thrashings
• 1930s: The Magpies
• 1930s: Whose News?
• 1931: Cheer-up Week
• 1931: New Zealand Broadcasting Board
• 1931: Policy of Adaptation
• 1932: A Funeral for the Rules
• 1932: Black Out
• 1932: Firemen
• 1932: Queen Street Riot
• 1932: Rainbow Springs
• 1932: Robert McDougall Art Gallery
• 1932: Tai Tapu Library
• 1932: Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand
• 1933: Death of Harry Holland
• 1933: Elizabeth McCombs, MHR
• 1933: Pranking the Authoritarians
• 1933: The Last Moriori
• 1934: Death of Kate Sheppard
• 1934: First Waitangi Day
• 1934: George Bernard Shaw Visit
• 1934: Reserve Bank of New Zealand Established
• 1934: Whale Hunting With A Machine Gun

• Labour 1.0

• 1935: Labour Finance Ministers
• 1935: Pickering Follows Cosmic Rainbow Home to New Zealand
• 1936: Apirana Ngata joins National Party
• 1936: Cotton Reel Tanks
• 1936: Days of Physical Culture
• 1936: Jack Lovelock, Political Puppet
• 1936: Kings High
• 1936: Mickey Mouse in the French Foreign Legion
• 1936: Savage’s Unconventional Family
• 1936: Single Source of Truth
• 1936: The Ministry of Marketing
• 1936: Timaru’s Nazi Tree
• 1937: Death of Rua Kenana
• 1937: First State House Built?
• 1937: House-Broken Labour
• 1937: No. 75 Squadron
• 1937: The Crocodile Sleeps
• 1937: The Most Powerful Radio Transmitter in the Southern Hemisphere
• 1938: Heavy Snow for Greymouth
• 1938: Jessie Mackay
• 1938: Labour 1.2
• 1938: The Affair Of The Four Colonels
• 1938: The Social Security Act
• 1938: Trethewey’s Heroes
• 1939: Genesis of the Cybermen
• 1939: Marshmallow Easter Eggs
• 1939: New Zealand Listener
• 1939: No-Fault Persecution
• 1939: Polish Diaspora
• 1939: Psychopathology in Politics
• 1939: St Andrew’s Blaketown
• 1939: The First State Babies
• 1940: Bathing Beauty Contests
• 1940: Bernard Freyberg and Carol Hirschfeld
• 1940: Savage Death
• 1940: The National Savings Movement
• 1940: Tomorrow Dies
• 1940: Wartime Conscription
• 1940s: Defend New Zealand: Christchurch vs Auckland
• 1940s: Hauraki Gulf Marine Mines
• 1940s: Post-War Department Store
• 1940s: We Will Remember Them
• 1941: Blackout
• 1941: Defiant Bureaucrat Killed in Minister’s Office
• 1941: From Beer Barrels to Beer Tankers
• 1941: Intelligent Cereal Boxes
• 1941: New Zealand Attacks Finland
• 1941: New Zealand Standards Council
• 1941: Operation Mercury
• 1941: Riverside
• 1941: The General Election That Never Was
• 1941: The Graham Manhunt
• 1941: The Greek Campaign
• 1941: The Greek King’s Bodyguard
• 1942: Coming and Going
• 1942: Kelly’s Canter
• 1942: Musick Point
• 1942: Tarawa Massacre
• 1942: The Maori War Effort Organisation
• 1942: Women Jurors Act
• 1943: Coates Dies in Office
• 1943: Eleanor Roosevelt Aggravates Unrest
• 1943: Freeman’s Bay Gasometers
• 1943: Hui at Ruatoria and Price of Citizenship speech
• 1943: Liberator Crash at Whenuapai
• 1943: “National Savings”
• 1943: The Battle of Manners Street
• 1944: Little Poland
• 1944: Mark of the Lion
• 1944: No serotonin for you, Boomer!
• 1945: Government Sing-off Battle
• 1945: Punakaiki Home Guard
• 1945: VE Day
• 1946: Don’t Spit
• 1946: Ending For The Election Night Assembly
• 1946: In Endless Fear
• 1946: Jayforce
• 1946: Kararoa Dairy
• 1947: Kaitaia Airport
• 1947: Middlemore Hospital
• 1947: Prince Philip
• 1947: Socialised Dentistry for Kids
• 1947: The Waters of the Waitemata
• 1948: City of Timaru
• 1948: Extinguishing British Citizenship
• 1948: Helen Keller
• 1948: Notornis, I Presume?
• 1948: Polio School Holiday

• National 1.0

• 1949: Meeanee Rodeo
• 1949: We Want To Help Britain
• 1950: Christchurch International Airport
• 1950: New Zealand War Service Medal
• 1950: “The thicker the block, the better the choc”
• 1950s: Conquered Pacific Theatre Converted into Americana
• 1950s: Free Gift Inside
• 1950s: Oblaten Swaps
• 1950s: Sons of Sargeson
• 1951: ANZUS Treaty
• 1951: ANZUS
• 1951: Arranged Marriages
• 1951: Cave In at Waiuta
• 1951: Death of Peter Buck
• 1951: Lock Out vs Lock Down
• 1951: Purau Bay Maori Reserve
• 1951: The Rise of Whina Cooper
• 1952: Invercargill’s Last Tram
• 1952: Kamaka’s Last Drink
• 1952: The Grand Interplanetary Hoax
• 1952: The Otara Project
• 1952: The Southland Creed Renewed
• 1953: Auckland Domain Reservoir
• 1953: Auckland’s Southern Motorway
• 1953: Conquest of Everest
• 1953: Everest- ‘Kiwi Kids are Weetbix Kids’
• 1953: Herald Island Falls to The State
• 1953: HMS Tactician
• 1953: Kawerau
• 1953: Prize-Giving Speech
• 1953: Queen of New Zealand in New Zealand
• 1954: BNZ Drive-In Bank
• 1954: Christchurch’s Last Tram
• 1954: Fourth World
• 1954: Lizzy’s Side
• 1954: Mazengarb
• 1954: The Queen and The State
• 1955: An Increased Tourist Industry
• 1955: Dunedin Inclined to Vanity
• 1955: New Zealand Honey Marketing Authority
• 1955: Opo
• 1955: Tails On Rails
• 1955: Tasman Glacier Airstrip
• 1955: Uranium flavoured ice cream
• 1955: Who Will Build the Roads?
• 1956: White Island Expedition

• Labour 2.0

• 1957: Happy Families
• 1957: Nash Equilibrium
• 1957: One More Hanging
• 1957: Only That Your Words Will Live
• 1957: Rock Around The Clock
• 1958: Hermitage Lodge
• 1958: Open Hearts
• 1958: The Black Budget
• 1958: Three Kings Carols by Candlelight
• 1959: Keith Trek
• 1959: Oxford Branch Closed
• 1959: Report With Soundings

• National 2.0

• 1960: Arise, Television
• 1960: Colorado River Campaign
• 1960: Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act
• 1964: Henderson Intermediate
• 1960: Nelson-Blenheim Railway
• 1960: New Zealand PM Meets Khrushchev
• 1960: Toot and Whistle
• 1960s: Breaking Gay Ground?
• 1960s: Brutalism in Nelson
• 1960s: Gasometer’s Demise
• 1960s: Richard Scarry’s New Zealand
• 1960s: “Sexist Advertisements”
• 1960s: The Second Great Migration
• 1961: Brierley Investments Ltd
• 1961: Salty Cycles
• 1961: Thalidomide
• 1961: Upham Interview- Not Dark Yet
• 1961: Walter’s Bluff
• 1962: Founders Memorial Theater
• 1962: Maoris and Early Settlers
• 1962: Memorial Park Fountain
• 1962: MV Tuhoe
• 1962: Television Anarchy
• 1962: The Treaty of Friendship
• 1963: A Kiwi Spring Clothes Peg Dynasty
• 1963: Auckland Flying School
• 1963: Auckland Regional Authority
• 1963: Bassett Road Machine-gun Murders
• 1963: New Zealand Labour Party Leadership Election
• 1963: The Great Ricardo
• 1964: Beatlemania
• 1964: Keeping Sexual Deviants Cowed
• 1964: Massive Exam Hall Conditions
• 1964: Nuclear Mother
• 1964: Washday at the Pa
• 1965: Kaimai Tunnel
• 1965: Leisure Island
• 1966: Decimal Coins
• 1966: Kaipara Nuclear Power Station
• 1966: Radio Hauraki
• 1966: Rotorua Meter Maid
• 1966: US President in New Zealand
• 1967: Burt Munroe, Downright Arthurian
• 1967: Decimalisation
• 1967: Opepe Canoe Rescue
• 1967: Physical Sciences Library
• 1967: The Heretic
• 1967: The Strongman Mine Disaster
• 1968: Wahine
• 1969: First televised national news broadcast
• 1969: Nelson Provincial Council Buildings Demolished
• 1969: Ripped off in Rotorua
• 1969: Rotary Park
• 1969: Rotorua Museum
• 1970: Bonus Bonds
• 1970: Skyhawk
• 1970: The Southerner
• 1970s: Anthropomorphic Television Demigods
• 1970s: Kaiapoi Warf
• 1970s: Kelly Tarlton: He Could and He Did
• 1970s: Kiwis have no idea when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed
• 1970s: Road Warrior Boomers
• 1970s: The Fall of Four Square Stores
• 1971: BLERTA
• 1971: Foxton Courthouse Closure
• 1971: Kentucky Fried Chicken
• 1971: New Zealand’s Heritage: The Making of a Nation
• 1971: Polynesian Panthers
• 1971: Shantytown
• 1971: South City Substation
• 1971: Tiwai Point
• 1971: Turangi Information Centre Museum

• Labour 3.0

• 1972: Accident Compensation Corporation
• 1972: Died Today: James K. Baxter
• 1972: Germaine Greer visits
• 1972: Masterton Cosmopolitan Club
• 1972: Otama Water Supply Scheme
• 1972: Play School
• 1972: Ruth Ross Redux
• 1972: Te Reo Maori Claim
• 1972: The Scatter Hypothesis
• 1972: The West Auckland Booze Monopoly Cartel
• 1973: Early Seventies ‘Oil Shock’ Hemlines
• 1973: Labour 3.0 on Justice
• 1973: Nazi Role Models
• 1973: Our Big Norm
• 1973: The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival
• 1973: The Importance of Being Ernest Adams
• 1974: Abortion
• 1974: Busting Sutch
• 1974: Freemans’ Farm Nationalised
• 1974: I Care
• 1974: Join Together
• 1974: Kirk Out
• 1974: New Zealand Day at Waitangi
• 1974: Pizza Hut
• 1974: The End of the World
• 1974: The Ohu Scheme

• National 3.0

• 1975: Brian Talboys
• 1975: Disarming the Banks
• 1975: Fred Dagg
• 1975: General Election; ‘The Cities’
• 1975: New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation Extinguished
• 1975: Telethon
• 1975: The Parihaka Industry
• 1975: TV2
• 1975: Waitangi Tribunal
• 1975: Wellington 2ZM
• 1975: What is a New Zealander?
• 1976: Bob Jones
• 1976: Final Lyttelton Wellington Ferry
• 1976: Orana Park
• 1976: Wanganui Computer Centre Act
• 1977: Bastion Point
• 1977: Fair Go
• 1977: Glenbrook Vintage Railway
• 1977: Holyoake Appointed Governor General
• 1977: Jean Batten Came Home
• 1977: José Feliciano working for Muldoon
• 1978: Bloody Friday
• 1978: Lawrence Lions
• 1978: Looking Back on 1978
• 1978: New Brighton Pedestrian Mall
• 1978: Premiers Exhumed
• 1978: Punk
• 1978: Turn to Industry
• 1978: What More Could Poor Split Enz Do?
• 1979: Abbotsford
• 1979: Carless Days
• 1979: Country Courthouse Culling
• 1979: Dunedin Airport Siege
• 1979: From Sofinsky to Putin
• 1979: International Year of the Child
• 1979: Kaikoura UFO
• 1979: Misremembering Erebus
• 1979: Muhammad Ali
• 1979: New Zealand State Kills 257 at Erebus
• 1979: Operation Midford
• 1979: Split Enz: Frenzy
• 1979: Winston Peters Gets In
• 1980: East Coast Bays Buy-election
• 1980: Fuel Fighter 661, Rob Muldoon’s Distracto-Train
• 1980: Moscow Olympics
• 1980: The Independent State of Aramoana
• 1980s: After School
• 1980s: Hadlee on Pacifism
• 1980s: Sketching Shoes
• 1980s: State Post Office Swindle Books
• 1980s: The Littlest Hobo
• 1981: Kiwis Bombing Kiwis
• 1981: Landmarks
• 1981: Over-Educated Housewives
• 1981: Rixen
• 1981: Ruahihi Disaster
• 1981: The Anderson Bay Hoax
• 1981: The Greatest American Hero
• 1981: Tip Top Zorro
• 1982: Driveworld
• 1982: Jean Batten: Bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
• 1982: Kohanga Reo Movement
• 1982: Neil Roberts Day
• 1982: Operation Freightcare
• 1982: The Other Guy
• 1982: The Warehouse
• 1983: Coast to Coast
• 1983: Howe Street Gasometers
• 1983: Savage Islands

• Labour 4.0

• 1984: Death of Keith Allen
• 1984: Everybody Loves A Winner
• 1984: New Zealand Bird Rescue
• 1984: Queen Street Riot
• 1984: The Fall of Fortress New Zealand
• 1984: The ICI Fire
• 1984: The Terminator
• 1985: Al Noor Mosque
• 1985: All Aboard The Race Bus
• 1985: Free Market Honey
• 1985: GMV Wairua
• 1985: Placing Mt Egmont in the Shade
• 1985: Refinery to Auckland Pipeline
• 1985: Robin of Sherwood
• 1985: Silent Signature
• 1985: Termination of Westland Hospital
• 1986: Adventure Playground
• 1986: I Came, I saw, I Concorde
• 1986: Mikhail Lermontov Sinking
• 1986: Tamaki City Council
• 1987: Edgecumbe
• 1987: Lotto
• 1987: Newstalk 1ZB
• 1987: Te Morehu Cairn
• 1987: Telecom New Zealand Materialises
• 1987: The Death of Shoe Salesmen
• 1987: The Krypton Factor
• 1987: The Re-Election of Labour 4.0
• 1988: Cyclone Bola
• 1988: Labour Goes Full Victimhood
• 1988: Life Education Trust
• 1988: Matilda
• 1988: Nuclear Free Zone
• 1988: Termination of Reefton Hospital
• 1988: The Meade Report
• 1988: Turn Out Coffee Coloured People By The Score
• 1988: Video Ezy
• 1989: An Amalgamated Visage Lies
• 1989: Ancestors of the Mind
• 1989: Brian’s Revolution
• 1989: David Lange Resigned
• 1989: Idiot Played Rachmaninov
• 1989: Jim Anderton Splits
• 1989: Kavanagh College
• 1989: Moriori- A People Resurrected
• 1989: Palmer’s Trumpet
• 1989: Seinfeld
• 1989: The Brown Trout of Gore
• 1989: The Great Amalgamation
• 1989: The Palmer Interlude
• 1989: The Republic of Whangamomona
• 1989: Tomorrow’s Schools
• 1989: TV3

• National 4.0

• 1990: David’s Got A Gun
• 1990: Dignity Culture Played Out
• 1990: Kiri’s Homecoming
• 1990: One and Two-cent Coins Withdrawn
• 1990: Prime Minister Mike Moore
• 1990: Reach Out
• 1990: The David Gray Manhunt
• 1990: The New Adventures of Black Beauty
• 1990: To Sir With Love
• 1990: Who Are We
• 1990s: Bye Grandma
• 1990s: Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• 1990s: Rave Culture
• 1990s: Social Capital Tanks
• 1991: Death of Billy T James
• 1991: Edmund Hillary in Orewa
• 1991: Kiwiburger
• 1991: Science Alive!
• 1991: Te Rua
• 1991: The Big Dig
• 1992: 91ZM Morning Crew
• 1992: A City Possessed
• 1992: A Thing Well Made
• 1992: Benito and Adolf in a New Zealand film!
• 1992: I Don’t Care Where As Long As I’m Mayor
• 1992: It’s My Sin
• 1992: NZBS
• 1992: Schlaepfer Farm Murders
• 1992: The New Zealand Shoe
• 1993: Bailey’s 818
• 1993: Hit the Ground Running
• 1993: New Zealand Rail Sale
• 1993: Nightline, Deadline, Flatline
• 1993: Oi
• 1993: Suffrage Day
• 1993: Wellington’s City to Sea Bridge
• 1994: Attack on One Tree Hill
• 1994: Ivomec Music
• 1994: PHANZA
• 1994: The Free Radical
• 1994: The Stackhat Deception
• 1994: “They’re dead, they’re all dead.”
• 1995: Big Apple at Waitomo
• 1995: Cave Creek Collapse
• 1995: John Britten
• 1995: Mayor Georgina Beyer
• 1995: News Crashers
• 1995: Professional Rugby
• 1995: The Travesty of Waitangi

• Labour 5.0

• 1996: Attack at Bastion Point
• 1996: Fly Buys
• 1996: NASDAP
• 1996: Rahui or Rah-hooey?
• 1997: The Death of Mat Rata
• 1997: The Raurimu Massacre
• 1998: Bill Maher Hall
• 1998: Constitutional Convention Bill
• 1998: Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act
• 1999: Rarangi Millennium Rock
• 2000: Big Mouth Billy Bass
• 2000: Castle Pamela
• 2000: Closing the Gaps
• 2000: Mt Hikurangi
• 2000: Radical Conservatism
• 2000: The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
• 2000: The Waikato Connection
• 2000s: Generation Z
• 2000s: History: The New Zealand Nuclear Family
• 2001: Matariki A State Odyssey
• 2002: Discovery of Lost Tribe, Ngati Hinerangi
• 2002: Police Ten 7
• 2002: Policepersons
• 2002: The Anarchist House
• 2002: The Governor’s Stolen Diary
• 2003: Test the Nation
• 2003: That time Goff met Arafat
• 2003: The Fart Tax
• 2004: Safe Communities Foundation
• 2004: Speedgate
• 2004: The Ellerslie Meteorite
• 2005: ACT 2.0
• 2005: An MP for a Pet
• 2005: Bo-Gyung Ko
• 2005: Monument to Kiwi Vanity
• 2005: State Jihad on Catfishing
• 2006: 5 Cent Coin Abolished
• 2006: Made in Taiwan
• 2006: The Seventh Maori King
• 2006: The Upham Boomers
• 2007: Derailing Fred
• 2007: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
• 2007: One Day
• 2007: Otago Correctional Facility
• 2007: Paper Computer Dream Dies With Kiwi Inventor

• National 5.0

• 2008: Air New Zealand Crash
• 2008: Harawene Immortalised
• 2008: Join the Resistance
• 2008: Labour 5.0 Defeated
• 2008: Martin Jetpack
• 2008: Prime Minister John Key
• 2008: Real Estate Authority
• 2008: The New Zealand Pacific Party
• 2008: Voting under the influence
• 2009: Cadbury Switched to Palm Oil
• 2009: Harry Brown
• 2009: Mt Eden’s Cows Removed
• 2009: New Zealand Sign Language Week
• 2010: Meet The Colemans
• 2010: Pike River Mine Disaster
• 2010: Supercity
• 2010s: “10 Decolonisation Skills for Non-Maori Kiwis”
• 2010s: Baby Boomer Self-Entitlement
• 2010s: Diversity Policing
• 2010s: Local Papers Die
• 2010s: Millennials Hurting
• 2010s: New Zealand English Endangered?
• 2010s: No Place For Young Male Anger
• 2011: David Shearer Leader of Labour Party
• 2011: Flixbox
• 2011: NZ Productivity Commission
• 2012: Kiwiblog Foresees Labour 6.0
• 2012: The Egg Bomb
• 2012: The End of TVNZ7
• 2014: A 1080 Conspiracy Exposed
• 2014: Death of Charlotte Dawson
• 2014: The Appeasement Express
• 2014: The Lego Movie
• 2015: Agassiz Glacier Cancelled?
• 2015: Cassidy ‘The Catalyst’ Boon
• 2015: Kāhui Ako: A Cluster Schmuck of Learning
• 2015: Section 501 Transportation
• 2015: Story
• 2015: Superstition and Kiwifruit
• 2015: “Teaching Critical History in Schools”
• 2015: The Grounding of the Tuhoe
• 2015: Triggering
• 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• 2016: The Inflammability of Red Tape
• 2016: The Rotorua Museum Scam

• Labour 6.0

• 2017: Man arrested after spraying shoppers with wine in Timaru on New Year’s Eve
• 2017: Meghan & Harry
• 2017: Port Hills Fires
• 2017: Should farmers pay for water?
• 2017: The Class of 2017
• 2017: Why are New Zealand Women so Lazy?
• 2018: Assid Corban’s Last Battle
• 2018: Auckland Regional Fuel Tax
• 2018: Blind Bisexual Goose Gets Civic Funeral
• 2018: Derailing Little Toot
• 2018: Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act
• 2018: “Get Woke, Or Shuffle Off”
• 2018: Government Place Names
• 2018: Honouring Bureaucracy
• 2018: Language Trauma
• 2018: National Wastewater Testing Programme
• 2018: School students banned from touching army guns
• 2018: St James Hall burns
• 2018: Teachers’ Teachers Demand More State Control
• 2018: The Provincial Growth Fund
• 2019: “Difficult Histories: The New Zealand Wars”
• 2019: “Let’s take his phallus”
• 2019: “Share a Coke with Whānau”
• 2019: What is up with Māori these days they wanna whine about everything
• 2020: A Life’s Sentences Overturned
• 2020: Cultural Hygiene
• 2020: Frankenstein’s Maori
• 2020: Generation Z and COVID-19
• 2020: Historical Report on Hamilton Street and City Names
• 2020: Millennial Fetal Contentment
• 2020s: Dignity Culture Rising
• 2020s: Generation Z+1
• 2020s: Shrinkflation
• 2021: ACC: “Have a hmmm”
• 2021: Marae Pedestrian Warning Sign
• 2021: Radio Hauraki Gets Woke
• 2021: Rotorua Boys High Goes Woke
• 2022: ANZAC Day Dimming
• 2022: The Peasants’ Revolt
• 2022: Whiria te Tangata
• 2023: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories (ANZH) curriculum
• 2023: The Heroic Millennial

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