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In 1987 Labour 4.0 Prime Minister David Lange gave himself the education portfolio shortly after winning re-election that year. One of the education groups he set his crosshairs on were New Zealand’s pre-school children. For this, Lange picked out Anne Meade who co-authored with him Meade Report (1988,) or Education to be More; Report of […]…
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State Programmes always achieve the very opposite of whatever they set out to do. March 10, 1880: The Sumner Deaf and Dumb Institution opened for business in Christchurch and it was bankrolled by the New Zealand Government. The Sumner Institute had the oxygen of state funding coupled with legislative force to abduct deaf children from […]…
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The State, in the 1930s, began instructing New Zealand farmers to use spray-on weed killer. A side-effect was that it made farmer’s clothing explode. The story of the 1930s New Zealand exploding farmer pants has been retold many times since Watson first broke the story. Mythbusters, in 2006, even tried to replicate the situation. AHNZ […]…
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England’s Black Death and New Zealand’s COVID Epidemic have so much in common. King Richard II of England’s pandemic (1348-1350) really killed masses of people whereas Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand’s pandemic (2020-2022) did not. This dissimilarity is not important because in each case the perception was the same. Peaceful, non-compl…
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Geoffrey Palmer was the second of the three Labour 4.0 Prime Ministers, taking over after David Lange quit until Mike Moore was deployed to fight the 1990 General Election. Prime Minister Palmer came romping into the General Election of 1990 with all sorts of winning booster rockets. He would be associated with the new New Zealand, our futuristic n…
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Today in history, 20 November, 1948, Dr Geoffrey Orbell set out on a private expedition to find the notornis (takehe) presumed extinct since 1898. By finding two near Lake Te Anau, he proved they were still very much alive.We also re-visit the late 1980s with Geoffrey Palmer to hear his warnings about a future government that might exercise tyranic…
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