The Nineteenth Century Heritage: Refrigeration And The Meat Industry

Refrigerated shipping in the nineteenth century opened up New Zealand to world markets, establishing New Zealand as 'England's off-shore farm'.   HARVEST is an on-going project at Victoria University to create a historical database of all refrigerated and other merchant ships for the years 1865 to 1925.

History of pip fruit growing.

The Suffragists Women Who Worked for the Vote.

The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition. A facsimile of the first sheet of the 1893 petition on display in the Constitution Room at the National Archives. With the passage of the Electoral Bill on 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world where women had won the right to vote.

Equal Pay For Women In New Zealand - History And Evaluation.

Richard John Seddon 1845-1906 Politician, Premier, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography vol.2 (1993).

William Ferguson Massey 1856-1925 Conservative Leader, Prime Minister.

History of the New Zealand Labour Party.

Michael Joseph Savage   1872-1940 Labour's First Prime Minister.

Peter Fraser 1884-1950   Labourer, Trade Unionist, Journalist, Politician, Prime Minister, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography vol.4 (1998)

Open and Shut : New Zealand's Participation in the World Economy in the Twentieth Century by Kenneth E Jackson.(pdf)

New Zealand labour history a history of the industrial labour movement in New Zealand.

A Brief History of the New Zealand National Party.

History of relations with the United States by the Embassy in Washington.

History of New Zealand Currency.   History of the ASB Bank.

In 1967 the Woodhouse Commission concluded that a comprehensive, no-fault accident compensation scheme would result in fair accident compensation for New Zealanders and would be less of a financial burden on society than the existing common law system. The first Act introduced in 1974 established an Accident Compensation Commission. All would be entitled to compensation following accidental personal injury, in return, the common law right to sue for damages for personal injury in a New Zealand Court was abolished.

Sir Robert David Muldoon.

David Lange.

In Bringing Home the Cup, an article published in the Christchurch Press in September 1995, Michael Carter looked back to 1984 when the Fourth Labour Government came to power in a snap election. They inherited control of country whose economy had been devastated by years of mismanagement. Aided by a willing and able bureaucracy, they set about implementing an ambitious programme of economic reform.
This article also appears in the scnz faq in the section on the Economy with references provided by Paul Walker.

Sharing the National Cake in Post Reform New Zealand: Income Inequality Trends in Terms of Income Sources   Nripesh Podder and Srikanta Chatterjee   Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University   ( pdf file - use Acrobat Reader to view).
"The bottom 80 percent of New Zealand Income earners suffered a reduction in their share of total incomes paid out, while the top 5 percent enjoyed a 25 percent gain after twelve years of painful restructuring."
Commentary by Keith Rankin.

The 1976 Antiquities Act, an export disincentive scheme.   Protecting our past for our future.

Details of the New Zealand Government Asset Sales.     "The benefits of privatisation can be summed up as more efficient resource use, avoidance of business risk for the Crown, and reduction of the public debt."

The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.

In July, 1985, French secret service agents entered New Zealand. They blew up and sank the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour. One crew member was killed. The remains of the Rainbow Warrior were towed to the Cavalli Islands and sunk to become a marine reserve and an attraction for divers.
Ten years later in 1995 France resumed a series of six nuclear tests in the South Pacific - to test "reliability and safety".
Read an Open Letter to President Chirac from the Prime Minister and People of New Zealand.
The Moruroa Blues .

Environmental history   comment on the Resource Management Act of 1991.

History of the Green Party in May 1972 a meeting at Victoria University, Wellington, launched the Values Party, the world's first national Green party.

State Housing in New Zealand: The recent reforms. a work in progress by Annemaree Senior. ( # Dec 2000 )

History of the Building Industry Authority   an independent Crown entity established in 1992 to manage New Zealand's building legislation.
Passage of the Building Act in December 1991 consolidated the individual local building bylaws of more than 80 local authorities and building-related provisions in some 90 previous central-government Acts and Regulations.
New Zealand's building legislation now has a simple structure: there is one Building Act and one set of Building Regulations which includes the building code.